Hedeby
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/12091
- Note
- "Hedeby (Danish pronunciation: [ˈhe̝ːðəˌpyˀ], Old Norse Heiðabýr, German Haithabu) was an important Danish Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the most important archaeological site in Schleswig-Holstein. Around 965, chronicler Abraham ben Jacob visited Hedeby and described it as, "a very large city at the very end of the world´s ocean."
The settlement developed as a trading centre at the head of a narrow, navigable inlet known as the Schlei, which connects to the Baltic Sea. The location was favorable because there is a short portage of less than 15 km to the Treene River, which flows into the Eider with its North Sea estuary, making it a convenient place where goods and ships could be pulled on a corduroy road overland for an almost uninterrupted seaway between the Baltic and the North Sea and avoid a dangerous and time-consuming circumnavigation of Jutland, providing Hedeby with a role similar to later Lübeck.Hedeby was the second largest Nordic town during the Viking Age, after Uppåkra in present-day southern Sweden,The city of Schleswig was later founded on the other side of the Schlei. Hedeby was abandoned after its destruction in 1066." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020) - Latitude
- 54.491111755371
- Longitude
- 9.5652780532837
- Time zone
- Europe/Berlin
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