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Flensburg

Flensburg (German: [ˈflɛnsbʊʁk] ; Danish and Low Saxon: Flensborg; South Jutlandic: Flensborre; North Frisian: Flansborj) is an independent town in the far north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. After Kiel and Lübeck, it is the third-largest town in Schleswig-Holstein.

For other uses, see Flensburg (disambiguation).

Flensburg
Flensborg (Danish, Low Saxon)
Flensborre (South Jutlandic)
Flansborj (North Frisian)

Fabian Geyer (Ind.)

56.38 km2 (21.77 sq mi)

12 m (39 ft)

92,550

1,600/km2 (4,300/sq mi)

24901–24944

Flensburg's city centre lies about 7 km (4 mi) from the Danish border.

the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (roughly: National Driver and Vehicle Register) with its Verkehrssünderkartei (literally: "traffic sinner card file"), where details of traffic offences are stored

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its beer , also called "Flens"

Flensburger Pilsener

the centre of the

Danish national minority in Germany

the greeting

Moin

the large erotic mail-order companies and Orion

Beate Uhse

its handball team,

SG Flensburg-Handewitt

the

Naval Academy at Mürwik

being the final seat of the from 1 May 1945, following Adolf Hitler's death, until the Third Reich's final, formal dissolution in early June 1945.

Third Reich

In Germany, Flensburg is known for:

Shelter from heavy winds

A trade route between Holstein and North (namely the Hærvejen or Ochsenweg, a series of roads between Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland, possibly dating from the Bronze Age)

Jutland

The Angelnway: a trade route between and Angeln

North Frisia

A good fishery

herring

Coat of arms[edit]

Flensburg's coat of arms shows in gold above blue and silver waves rising to the left a six-sided red tower with a blue pointed roof, breaking out of which, one above the other, are the two lions of Schleswig and Denmark; above is a red shield with the silver Holsatian nettle leaf on it. The town's flag is blue, overlaid with the coat of arms in colour.


The lions symbolize Schleswig, and the nettle leaf Holstein, thus expressing the town's unity with these two historic lands. The tower recalls Flensburg's old town rights and the old castle that was the town's namesake (Burg means "castle"). The waves refer to the town's position on the Flensburg Fjord.


The coat of arms was granted the town by King Wilhelm II of Prussia in 1901, and once again in modified, newly approved form on 19 January 1937 by Schleswig-Holstein's High President (Oberpräsident)

Carlisle, England, United Kingdom

England

Neubrandenburg, Germany

Germany

Słupsk, Poland

Poland

Flensburg is twinned with:[11]

Economy and infrastructure[edit]

Energy[edit]

The town has a well-established Combined Heat and Power and District Heating scheme, installed between 1970 and 1980.[12] It is owned by the town.

Transport[edit]

West of Flensburg runs the A 7 Autobahn, leading north to the Danish border, whence it continues as European route E45. Federal Highways (Bundesstraßen) B 200 and B 199 also pass through the municipal area.


West of the town lies the Flensburg-Schäferhaus airport.


Local transport is provided by several buslines, including Aktiv Bus GmbH and Allgemeinen Flensburger Autobus Gesellschaft (AFAG). They all operate on an integrated fare system within the Flensburg transport community (Verkehrsgemeinschaft Flensburg). They also all subscribe to the Schleswig-Holstein tariff system, whereby anyone travelling from anywhere in Schleswig-Holstein or Hamburg may use Flensburg buses free to connect with their final destinations. This works both ways: a rider boarding any bus in Flensburg need only name a destination anywhere in Schleswig-Holstein or Hamburg, pay the fare, and travel to that destination on one ticket.


The Flensburg station opened in 1927 south of the Old Town. From there, trains run on the main line to Neumünster, Hamburg, and Fredericia, among them some InterCity connections as well as trains serving the line running to Eckernförde and Kiel. Another stop for regional trains to Neumünster is in Flensburg-Weiche. The stretch of line to Niebüll has been out of service since 1981, efforts to open it again notwithstanding. The secondary line to Husum and lesser lines to Kappeln and Satrup no longer exist. The tramway, which opened in 1881 to horse-drawn trams, was electrified in 1906, and at one point ran four lines, was replaced by buses in 1973.

Landestheater (at the Stadttheater) and Symphony Orchestra

Schleswig-Holsteinisches

Niederdeutsche Bühne der Stadt Flensburg (Low German Stage of the city of Flensburg)

Det Lille Teater (Danish theatre)

Theaterwerkstatt Pilkentafel (Theatre Workshop)

Orpheus-Theater

1851: Friedrich Ferdinand Tillisch, Minister for the Duchy of Schleswig

1857: , salesman and shipowner

Christian Rønnenkamp

1867: , Prussian King's Governor

Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel

1872: Karl von Wrangel, General

1895: , Reich Chancellor

Otto Fürst von Bismarck

1911: Friedrich Wilhelm Selck, Commercial Councillor

1917: Heinrich Schuldt, Town Councillor

1924: , Aviation pioneer

Hugo Eckener

1930: Hermann Bendix Todsen, Oberbürgermeister

1999: , aviator and businesswoman

Beate Uhse-Rotermund

Flensburg, Minnesota

in German known as the Flensburger Löwe

Isted Lion

Chronicle of the Expulsion of the Grayfriars#Chapter 1 Concerning the Friary in Flensborg

SG Flensburg-Handewitt

. Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). 1911.

"Flensburg" 

Flensburg's official website

Archived 2006-05-19 at the Wayback Machine

Flensburg tourism information

Flensburg online

Danish newspaper in Flensburg

German newspaper in Flensburg

Museumsberg Flensburg