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Schleswig-Holstein
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Eutin
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is a district in
Schleswig-Holstein ,
Germany . It is bounded by (from the southwest and clockwise) the districts of
Stormarn ,
Segeberg and
Plön , the
Baltic Sea and the city of
Lübeck .
The district was established in
1970 by merging the former districts of Eutin and Oldenburg. These former districts have different histories.
Eutin was ruled by Lübeck. In 1803 it became an exclave of the duchy of
Oldenburg (which confusingly has nothing to do with the Holsteinian city of Oldenburg). In 1937 it was moved to
Prussia and became the Prussian district of Eutin.
The region of Oldenburg was a part of the duchy of
Holstein . In 1864 Holstein became subordinate to Prussia, which soon afterwards established the district of Oldenburg.
The district consists of the peninsula between the
Bay Of Lübeck and the
Bay Of Kiel , the island of '''
Fehmarn ''', the eastern part of the region called "Holsteinische Schweiz" (Holsatian Switzerland) and the northern suburbs of
Lübeck .
Holsatian Switzerland is an area full of lakes and woody hills, which is shared with the adjoining district of
Plön . The Bungsberg, though only 168 m in height, is the highest elevation in Schleswig-Holstein. The island of Fehmarn is the third largest island of Germany. Since
1963 it has been connected to the mainland by a
Suspension Bridge .
