Windeby ( da, Vindeby) is a municipality in the district of

Rendsburg-Eckernförde Rendsburg-Eckernförde (; da, Rendsborg-Egernførde) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the east and clockwise) the city of Kiel, the district of Plön, the city of Neumünster, the districts of Segeberg, Steinbu ...

, in

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sc ...

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. It is situated approximately 2 km west of

Eckernförde Eckernförde ( da, Egernførde, sometimes also , nds, Eckernför, sometimes also ) () is a German town in Schleswig-Holstein, Rendsburg-Eckernförde, on the coast of the Baltic Sea approximately 30 km north-west of Kiel. The population is a ...

. Windeby is part of the ''

Amt Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to ...

'' ("collective municipality")

Windeby Windeby ( da, Vindeby) is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated approximately 2 km west of Eckernförde. Windeby is part of the ''Amt'' ("collective municipality") Windeby ...

. The seat of the ''Amt'' is in Eckernförde. Windeby is east of the municipality of

Fleckeby Fleckeby ( da, Flækkeby) is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous m ...

or Osterby, but north of

Goosefeld Goosefeld ( da, Gosefeld or Gosby) is a municipality in the district of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Goosefeld is south of the municipality of Windeby, but north of Groß Wittensee, Haby and Holtsee Holtsee is a muni ...

. Windeby means Wendish village in Danish and indicates a previous Lechite settlement in the village.

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