Ancient site · Germany · Partial ruin
Hedeby
Haithabu
Hedeby (Haithabu) was a major Viking Age trading settlement at the head of the Schlei inlet on the Jutland peninsula, flourishing in the 9th–11th centuries. Surrounded by a semi-circular earthen rampart and harbour, it functioned as a transshipment point between the Baltic and North Sea before its abandonment after destruction in the 11th century; the archaeological site and a nearby Viking museum now mark the location.
Its prime
AD 965
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in AD 965
What Hedeby looked like in its prime.
A low coastal plain opening onto the Haddebyer Noor with reed-lined shores and a narrow inlet; at the heart a semicircular 9-metre-high earthen rampart topped by a wooden palisade shelters a compact grid of timber longhouses with reed or straw thatch. Timber jetties and harbour-works run into the water, clinker-built ships lie moored, and grassy burial mounds and runestones dot the surrounding heath. Reconstructions of Viking halls and workshop sheds stand near the rampart's interior edge.
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