Plön (IPA: [ˈpløːn]) is the district seat of the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, and has about 13,000 inhabitants. It lies right on Schleswig-Holstein's biggest lake, the Großer Plöner See, as well as on several smaller lakes, touching the town on virtually all sides. The town's landmark is the Schloss Plön, a chateau built in the 17th century on a hill overlooking the town.
Plön has a Gymnasium with a 300-year history, and is home to a German Navy junior officer school and the Max Planck Institute of Limnology. The town, nestled as it is in the hilly wooded lake district of the Holsteinische Schweiz (meaning the "little Switzerland of Holstein"), also has importance in the tourism industry.
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