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Germany's longest bay, the Schlei, stretches from Schleimünde to Schleswig. Sometimes narrow like a river, sometimes wide like a lake, past idyllic towns and villages. During the Ice Age, glaciers carved the fjord 40 kilometers from the Baltic Sea deep into the land. A paradise not only for sailors, the Schlei is a popular holiday destination. Arnis, the smallest town in Germany with 300 inhabitants, is located on a peninsula and proudly calls itself the "Pearl of the Schlei". The Café Lindauhof, the former setting of the ZDF series "The Country Doctor", still attracts many fans to Boren. The Viking Museum "Haithabu" in Schleswig is a world cultural heritage site; on its historic site, seven Viking houses have been reconstructed based on original finds. In the kiosk on the pilot island, the Schleswig workshops sell homemade products from the Schlei. And they also run the poison stall there, because in the past the fishermen always asked in Low German: “Is there poison here?” ZDF correspondent Hermann Bernd was on a late summer tour along the Schlei.