Hedeby
![Site of the former town of Hedeby.](/Images/godic/202501/17/Haithabu_Haddebyer_Noor_WT20055608.jpg")
![Map of Viking Denmark with Hedeby at the southern edge.](/Images/godic/202501/17/Denmark_vikings_35608.jpg")
![Bilingual map of the Schlei (German and Danish placenames)](/Images/godic/202501/17/SchleiSlien5608.png")
![Two reconstructed houses at Hedeby](/Images/godic/202501/17/Haithabu_Haeuser_WT20055608.jpg")
Hedeby (Danish pronunciation: [ˈheːð̩byːˀ], Old Norse Heiðabýr, German Haithabu) was an important Viking Age (8th to the 11th centuries) trading settlement near the southern end of the Jutland Peninsula, now in the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the most important archaeological site in Schleswig-Holstein by far. The Haithabu Museum was opened next to the site in 1985.