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21-507: The Vogelfluglinie (Danish: Fugleflugtslinjen), an important transport corridor connecting the Danish capital of Copenhagen on the island of Zealand to the second-largest German city of Hamburg via Lübeck , runs across the island. There are currently two tunnels under construction in the region: the Fehmarn Belt Tunnel between Puttgarden on Fehmarn and Rødbyhavn on Lolland, and

42-507: A high-speed rail line Copenhagen–Hamburg, and which central section is the Fehmarn Belt Tunnel's railway . In the north, it connects to the Øresund Bridge/Drogden Tunnel (Priority Project 11) and the Nordic Triangle railway/road axis (Priority Project 12), and in the south to Bremen and Hanover . The full line currently under construction consists of several new railways to be built and old railways to be upgraded, to achieve at least

63-514: A maximum speed of 200 km/h on all sections: 54°34′N 11°17′E  /  54.567°N 11.283°E  / 54.567; 11.283 Puttgarden Puttgarden is a ferry harbour and a village on the German island of Fehmarn . It lies on an important route between Germany and Denmark known as the Vogelfluglinie which crosses the 18 kilometres (11 mi) strait,

84-597: A strait separating Fehmarn from Lolland, is located on the side opposite the German mainland. It can be crossed by ferries travelling between the seaports of Puttgarden , Germany, and Rødbyhavn , Denmark . The crossing takes about 45 minutes. On 29 June 2007, the Danish and German authorities gave the go-ahead for the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link tunnel project, planned for completion in 2028. The aforementioned 963-metre (3,159 ft) long Fehmarn Sound Bridge connects

105-482: Is also well known for its windsurf and kitesurf spots. Currently there are more than ten surfspots known on the island. Scharwenzel is a card game for two teams with two to four players on each team. The game is at least three centuries old and is played today only on Fehmarn. Fehmarn was the location of Jimi Hendrix 's final concert , at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival, on 6 September 1970. The concert

126-473: Is still used by Scandlines ferries, with a fleet of four ferries giving one connection every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day. A tunnel connection is under construction across the Fehmarn Belt. Originally planned as a bridge, the solution eventually chosen was an immersed tunnel comprising both a road and a rail link. The Danish government is financing construction. The fixed link will have road fees comparable to

147-465: The Fehmarn Sound Tunnel between Strukkamp (Fehmarn) and Großenbrode ( Wagria ). The most notable settlements on Fehmarn are Burg auf Fehmarn ( Low German : Borg op Fehmarn ) and Puttgarden, with the island's ferry port. Fehmarn is allegorically represented by the "Goldene Krone im blauen Meer" ( Golden Crown in the blue Sea ), which can be seen on many flags on the island, making reference to

168-685: The Fehmarnbelt , to Rødby on the island of Lolland . From 1945 to 1963, the ferry route from West Germany to Denmark had run between Großenbrode and Gedser . A train ferry terminal was built in Puttgarden in 1961-63 and at the same time Fehmarn was connected to the mainland by bridge. Since the completion of the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark, the route via Puttgarden became less used by trains and Puttgarden station closed in 2022. The harbour

189-649: The Great Northern War , Fehmarn, along with the rest of Schleswig was united with the Danish crown. In 1864, Schleswig passed to Prussia as a result of the Second Schleswig War . On 26 July 1932, the German Navy's training ship Niobe sank off the island during a sudden squall, with the loss of 69 lives. At Gammendorfer Strand on Fehmarn, within view of the site of the sinking, the Niobe-Denkmal monument

210-615: The House of Oldenburg , the Danish royal house. Earlier names of the island are Femera, Fimbria, Cimbria parva, and Imbra. As a part of Wagria , it was settled by the Slavic Lechitic tribe of Wagri in the Early Middle Ages . Fehmarn is one of the westernmost places of the former contiguous settlement area of the Slavs , and the westernmost island with a former Slavic settlement. The name of

231-521: The "bird flight line" was restarted in 1949 and completed in 1963. On 14 December 2019 at 20:02 the last train from DSB and Deutsche Bahn arrived in Rødbyhavn. Trains between Hamburg and Copenhagen will run via Funen and Jutland until the Fehmarnbelt connection is completed. The rail ferry was discontinued because service would have been degraded massively while works on Sydbanen are ongoing. The core of

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252-491: The Danish and German names (literally: bird flight line ) imply, the corridor is also an important bird migration route between arctic Scandinavia and Central Europe . Proposals for a more direct "bird flight line" date back from the 1920s. Construction was started on the Danish side in 1941 after the Nazi occupation force pushed the matter, but work was halted again in 1946. After World War II , Warnemünde (near Rostock )

273-529: The German island of Fehmarn with the German mainland near Großenbrode. The coasts serve as resting places for migratory birds , and it is thus a popular location for ornithologists . The island's bird reserves are looked after by NABU 's conservation centre at the Wallnau Waterbird Reserve . In Burg there is a large aquarium with 40 fish tanks. Fehmarn is famous for its nature and recreation areas, especially during summertime (July–September) and

294-567: The basis of Danish funding. The road connection consists of: The rail connection consists of: Until 2019, three to five EuroCity trains a day in each direction used train ferries to provide passenger services between Copenhagen and Hamburg, operated with DBAG Class 605 trains by Deutsche Bahn (out of service since 2017) and Danish IC3 trains. With the completion of the Great Belt Bridge freight trains are no longer directed via Rødby-Puttgarden, but via Funen and Jutland . Since

315-421: The connection is the 19-kilometre (12 mi) ferry link between Rødby (Denmark) and Puttgarden (Germany). The line is operated by Scandlines . Ferries take 45 minutes and operate twice an hour, 24 hours a day. The projected Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link , an undersea tunnel, will replace the ferries. Danish-German negotiations on 29 June 2007 culminated in an agreement to complete the link by 2028, essentially on

336-598: The end of 2019, passenger trains have also used this route, which is 160 km (99 mi) longer but around 20 minutes faster and allows longer trains. Only some of the IC3 trains were capable of going to Germany. These current bridges and tunnels are part of the connection: The 'Railway axis Fehmarn Belt' is the Priority Project 20 of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) that seeks to establish

357-610: The island from around 1200 onwards. The Slavs inhabiting the island were gradually Christianized and Germanized . From the Middle Ages till 1864 Fehmarn formed part of the Danish Duchy of Schleswig . When the duchy was partitioned in 1544, it formed part of the duchy of John the Elder . Upon his death without heirs in 1580, Fehmarn became part of the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp . After

378-871: The island itself derives from the Polabian fe more ( in the sea ), modern v more , and has the same etymological background as Pomerania , deriving from po more , at the sea . Puttgarden is also a Slavic name, deriving from pod gard , which means under the castle (on Rügen exists a village with the same etymological background, evolving into the modern form Putgarten ). Other Slavic-founded villages on Fehmarn are Bannesdorf, Dänschendorf, Gahlendorf, Gammendorf-Siedendorf, Gollendorf, Hinrichsdorf, Klausdorf, Kopendorf, Lemkendorf, Meeschendorf, Püttsee, Sahrensdorf, Schlagsdorf, Sulsdorf and Vitzdorf. The villages of Bisdorf, Presen and Staberdorf are either Slavic-founded or founded by Germanic colonists from Holstein , Dithmarschen , Frisia , Lower Saxony and Denmark , who settled

399-679: Was erected. Since 1963, Fehmarn has been connected to the German mainland by a road and rail bridge crossing the Fehmarn Sound Bridge . It is 963.40 m (3160.76 ft.) long and 69 m high. The area is 185 km and the coastline is 78 km. The highest hills are the "Hinrichsberg" (27.2 m) and the "Wulfener Berg" (26.5 m). The largest community on Fehmarn is Burg ( German pronunciation ) (lit. "the Town of Fehmarn"), with 6,000 inhabitants. In addition, there are many small villages, including Vadersdorf . The Fehmarn Belt ,

420-564: Was held at Flügge Beach in the southwest. There is a memorial stone there and from 1995 through 2010, the Jimi-Hendrix-Revival-Festival was celebrated annually in September. The St. Nicholas Church has a baptismal font that dates from 1391. Vogelfluglinie The Vogelfluglinie (German) or Fugleflugtslinjen (Danish) is a transport corridor between Copenhagen , Denmark , and Hamburg , Germany . As

441-526: Was included in the territory of East Germany . Political divisions made traffic between Denmark and West Germany via Warnemünde inconvenient. From 1951 to 1963 a ferry line from Gedser to Großenbrode operated as a temporary solution. In addition, traffic between Copenhagen and Hamburg would either be directed over the Great Belt ferry, Funen and Jutland or the Gedser - Warnemünde ferry. Construction of

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