River
Trave
114 km from source to mouth · Germany.
GermanyFlows into Baltic Sea
In numbers
Length
114km
Average flow
34m³/s
Basin
2,676km²
Drop
28m
from 26 m to -2 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
114 km of river and 28 stops on the way: 10 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmAhrensbökat 26 m
- 10 kmWardersee3.3 km²
- 18 kmGroßer Segeberger See1.4 km²
- 18 kmKlein Rönnau1,897 people
- 25 kmFahrenkrug1,697 people
- 26 kmBad Segeberg16,052 people
- 29 kmMözener See1.1 km²
- 50 kmBad Oldesloe24,322 people
- 60 kmReinfeld8,340 people
- 60 kmHerrenteich0.5 km²
- 71 kmHamberge1,357 people
- 82 kmWipperbrücke
- 84 kmKrähenteich0.4 km²
- 84 kmLübeck217,061 people
- 85 kmDrehbrücke Lübeck
- 86 kmSchlösschen Bellevue
- 86 kmEric-Warburg-Brücke
- 90 kmBad Schwartau19,722 people
- 91 kmClever Autributary
- 95 kmLübecker Ölmühle
- 96 kmHerrenbrücke
- 96 kmHerren Tunnel
- 102 kmSelmsdorf3,139 people
- 107 kmStepenitztributary
- 112 kmLübeck-Travemünde Hafen station
- 112 kmTravemünde13,913 people
- 113 kmMaritim Hotel Lübeck-Travemünde
- 113 kmSchwartautributary
- 113 kmWakenitztributary
- 114 kmBaltic Seaat -2 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
At the mouth it carries 34 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 74 seconds. It drops from 26 m to -2 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 2,676 km², about the size of LU. 503,000 people live in it. Highest water: March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- LübeckLargest city on its banks · 217,061 people
- Lübeck Blankensee Airport (LBC)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 8 km from the cityCar hire at HAM airport (Hamburg)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water104 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Trave, month by month
Highest water: March
Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 20 m³/s in the lowest month to 59 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Trave: the basin in numbers
2,671 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 503,000people live in the basin
- 195/km²people per km²
- 37maverage altitude of the basin
- 680mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 8.3°Caverage air temperature
- 19%protected areas
- 2.1%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 3% Forest
- 60% Cropland
- 19% Pasture
- 9% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Trave: what you find on the way
- 6Weirs
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 30Boat ramps
- 27Ferry piersHolstentorterrasse, Moltkebrücke, Falkendamm and 24 more
- 40MarinasRönnauer Bootsclub e.V., Lübecker Motorboot-Club (LMC), Marina Lachswehr Wasserfahrer and 37 more
- 2River beachesFKK, Hundestrand
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Trave in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
5lakes on its wayLakeyas
12beaches at the mouth and on the banksCoastya
7mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (5)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Warderseekm 83.3km²
- Großer Segeberger Seekm 141.4km²
- Mözener Seekm 231.1km²
- Herrenteichkm 470.5km²
- Krähenteichkm 670.4km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Beaches (12)
At the mouth (25 km) and on the banks, by Coastya
- Meerwasser-Wellenbad11 km away18.6°C
- Strand Rosenhagen3.6 km away18.6°C
- Hundestrand 16.6 km away18.6°C
- Strand Kalkhorst7.7 km away18.6°C
- Hundestrand12 km away18.6°C
- Schlutuper Wiekkm 79 · cove18.6°C
- Silkkm 84 · cove18.6°C
- Teschower Wiekkm 84 · cove18.6°C
4 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
Mountains at the source (7)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Grimmelsberg13 km away83m
- Segeberger Kalkberg13 km away
- Ahnsberg13 km away
- Grenzberg10 km away
- Teufels-Berg11 km away
- Nehms Berg5.2 km away
- Mühlenberg10 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Trave in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Wakenitz, Stepenitz, Schwartau, Norderbeste, Clever Au
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3302) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Coastya, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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