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Rendsburg-Eckernförde (Danish: 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, Steinburg, Dithmarschen and Schleswig-Flensburg, and the Baltic Sea.
[edit] History
In 1867 the Prussian administration established twenty districts in its province of Schleswig-Holstein, among them the districts of Rendsburg and Eckernförde. The present district was established in 1970 by merging the former districts. Rendsburg was part of Denmark till the Prussian-Danish war. Prussia won and Rendsburg became part of it. In the years following Prussia became part of Germany and Rendsburg also.
[edit] Geography
The district is situated at the coast of the Baltic Sea, roughly between the cities of Schleswig and Kiel. A large portion of the Kiel Canal passes through Rendsburg-Eckernförde.It is one of the largest districts in the whole of Germany.
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