Nord bei Nordwest: Filming Locations of Schwanitz

Hauke Jacobs, a former Hamburg police officer, settles on the Baltic coast in the fictional village of Schwanitz to work as a vet. There is no such village: the production films the made-up place on the Priwall and in Travemünde, and the story itself is set in that area. The Priwall is a peninsula about three kilometres long at the mouth of the Trave.

Location precision: Schwanitz does not exist; the pin marks the Priwall peninsula, where the series films its setting.

Visitor guidance: The Priwall peninsula is part of Lübeck-Travemünde on the Trave mouth.

Jacobs buys an old, habitable ship that becomes his home, and fans nicknamed it the Princess of Schwanitz. In reality the boat is called Seeadler, and during filming it lies in the harbour of Orth, on the south-west coast of Fehmarn. The harbour is where the series shoots its harbour scenes. Orth is tiny, with about 60 permanent residents.

Visitor guidance: Orth harbour on Fehmarn is a public harbour settlement; the boat is moored here only during filming.

When the village vet dies, Jacobs takes over his practice and keeps the assistant Jule Christiansen. In reality the practice scenes were shot in Neuengamme, one of the four districts of Hamburg's Vierlande. The building on the main street once belonged to a real vet, who rented it to the film crew.

Location precision: The sources give only the street, Hauptstraße in Neuengamme, so the route shows no pin.

Viewers often see officers driving a patrol car along the island's country roads, with a silo and a church in the background. The church is St. Johannis in Petersdorf, on Fehmarn. It is a Gothic building from the middle of the 13th century.

Visitor guidance: St. Johannis is the village church of Petersdorf, inland on Fehmarn.

The guesthouse called Pension Ahab in the series is a real hotel on the Elbstraße in Geesthacht, with a dining room, guest rooms and a hall in 1960s style. Geesthacht is the other town that appears in the list of filming places, next to Fehmarn, the Priwall and the Vierlande. A barn at Gut Hasenthal in Geesthacht was also used for part 11 of the series.

Visitor guidance: The Hotel zur Post stands on Elbstraße in Geesthacht.