Hemmelsdorfer See Lakeside Boardwalk

The Hemmelsdorfer See in Schleswig-Holstein is located north of Lübeck in the immediate vicinity of the Baltic Sea in the area of the communities of Ratekau and Timmendorfer Strand and was formerly a fjord.

The Hemmelsdorfer See in Schleswig-Holstein is located north of Lübeck in the immediate vicinity of the Baltic Sea in the area of the communities of Ratekau and Timmendorfer Strand and was formerly a fjord.

The lake was formed after the last ice age (the Weichselian glaciation), when the channel carved out by glaciers connected to the Baltic Sea and the Hemmelsförde was formed. This fjord was subsequently cut off from the Baltic Sea by the sand masses eroded from the Brodten shore by the Baltic Sea and moved westward by the current, thus forming the lake we see today.