Ratekau is a municipality in the district of
Ostholstein, in
Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany. It is situated approximately 10 km northeast of
Lübeck.
It is the place where
Blücher surrendered after the
Battle of Lübeck in 1806.
The village is best known for its well preserved
fieldstone church
A fieldstone church (german: Feldsteinkirche) is a type of church, built using fieldstone of glacial erratics and glacial rubble. Such cathedrals and monasteries occur mostly in areas where the ice ages have deposited such rock material on the on ...
St Vicelin of 1156.
References
Ostholstein
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