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In the submarine museum in the port of Burgstaaken on Fehmarn, you can see a particularly interesting former NATO submarine. The 205mod class 11 submarine, with the NATO code S190, was the forerunner for all German submarines in the coming series.
Read on to get a detailed overview of the museum tour and to learn more about the submarine.
To visit the submarine, you have to pay for admission in cash during opening hours. Unfortunately, the advertised opening hours and admission prices are often out of date, but we've done our best to present it for you here.
If the prices and opening times are not correct, please feel free to send us an email.
Unfortunately, the opening hours of the submarine museum on Fehmarn are often out of date online. Therefore, a visit outside the main season is often associated with a bit of luck.
April to October:
Usually open between 10 am and 6 pm
November:
Usually open on weekends between 11 am and 4 pm
December and January:
Closed, except for a few days over New Year from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
February and March:
Usually open on weekends between 11 am and 4 pm
Please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the times.
Unfortunately, the situation with regard to admission prices is similar to that with regard to opening times: the information is often out of date. When we wrote the article on December 20, 2024, the admission prices should be approximately the following:
Adults: €9
Children (4 to 14 years): €6
Pupils/students: €7
Family ticket (2 adults + 2 children): €22
Each additional child: €5
Groups of 15 or more persons receive a 10% discount.
Please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the costs.
It is not allowed to take dogs into the submarine museum, as the interior of the submarine is not designed for animals.
On Tripadvisor, the U11 U-boat Museum receives an average of 3 out of 5 points, based on a total of 93 ratings. (As of: December 20, 2024)
The most common criticism is:
| Model year: | April 1, 1966 to June 21, 1968 |
| Shipyard | Kieler Howaldtswerke |
| Submarine class | 205 or 205mod |
| NATO designator | S190 |
| Conversion to a two-hull boat | 1987 to 1988, to be used as a target ship for torpedo firing exercises |
| Decommissioning | October 30, 2003 |
| Conversion into a museum | 2005 |
| Length | 43.5 meters |
| Width | 4.60 meters |
| Total height | 9.80 meters |
| Total weight | 420 tons before the conversion 520 tons after the conversion |
| Max. diving depth | 100 meters |
| Max. submerged speed | 17 kts (around 32 km/h) |
| Max. speed surfaced | 10 kts (about 19 km/h) |
| Crew | 21 to 22 men |
| Special features | This submarine was the first to be built from the steel “PN 18 S2”. It proved to be the best, which is why all later German submarines were built from it. The submarine was the only target ship for submarines, surface vessels and aircraft within NATO. |
The submarine U11 belongs to the 205 class of submarines and thus to the first successful submarine series of the German Navy after the Second World War.
The submarines were responsible for fighting enemy warships in the Baltic Sea and, in the event of war, for repelling landing ships.
A total of 12 submarines belong to the series, which was actually titled as class 201. After the first three submarines (U1 to U3) were completed, however, it was quickly realized that the selected steel was unsuitable for the construction.
Submarines U4 to U8 were already under construction at the time and were also affected by the problem. However, after a construction freeze, it was decided to rename them class 205 and to finish the construction because the work was already too far advanced.
Various steel variants were then tested for the submarines U9 to U12, which is why these submarines are also classified as class 205mod.
The U11, the submarine you can see in Fehmarn, was built from “PN 18 S2” steel, which proved to be the best choice. Since then, all German submarines have been made from this steel.
The start of construction of the U11 was on April 1, 1966 in the Kieler Howaldtswerken. The submarine was commissioned on June 21, 1968.
The submarine covered a total of 177,898 nautical miles (around 329,467 km). 15,530 nautical miles (around 28,761 km) of that was underwater.
From January 5, 1987, to September 30, 1988, the submarine was then converted and given a second hull to be used as an underwater target boat. This means that it was used as a target ship for torpedo shooting exercises. In this capacity, the submarine was the only underwater target boat for submarines, surface ships and aircraft within NATO.
The submarine was decommissioned in 2003 and converted into a museum in 2005, which you can visit today in the port of Burgstaaken on Fehmarn.
On May 2, 2005, the submarine was lifted out of the water by two cranes and placed on the concrete pillars on the headland over a period of four hours. In the next step, the area around the submarine was flooded with water to make it look as if the submarine was floating.
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