Tourism & City Portrait
Good reasons for holidaying in Flensburg
You will find places where you can enjoy fantastic shopping. There are corners where you can find peace and quiet, in other spots there is always something going on. There are convenient venues without any style and there are glamorous places with practically no everyday conveniences. And luckily there’s Flensburg, for Flensburg has the best of everything.
With around 89,000 inhabitants (as at: Decembre 2008), 1,900 hectares of fields, woods and meadows, a fjord connected to the Baltic Sea, a historical old town, the cosmopolitan appearance of a seaport with history, and plenty of room for newcomers – that‘s Flensburg!
Flensburg lies at the very top of Germany. It doesn’t get more northerly than this. No town in Schleswig-Holstein radiates more Scandinavian flair: small colourful fishermen’s houses, old markets and squares and bright-yellow captains‘ and merchants‘ yards. Veteran sailing schooners. Old steamers. Two languages. Two cultures. One history. For 400 years Flensburg belonged to the Danish crown. This has left traces behind and still provides exciting diversity today – for the city, the region and the fjord.
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Flensburg is a city with beautiful facades and great depth: theatres and cinemas, bars, cabarets and restaurants, colleges, schools, a university and museums, churches and mosques, top-class sports, mass sports, shopping malls, shopping bays– everything you need in life.
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It may be that dinosaurs played here and that later Harald Bluetooth's Viking ship ploughed through the Flensburg Fjord. We don’t know for sure – ever since historical times the old Heerweg (ancient military trail), also called Ochsenweg, has connected Jutland with the European heartland from north to south, and crossed the trade route from Angeln to Friesland in front of the gates of the city of Flensburg. Where streets and sea meet is an ideal place for settlements. And so, in the innermost corner of Flensburg Fjord, a trading settlement grew up around the oldest church, St. Johannis. According to legend, in the 12th century the knight Fleno built his fortified city here and demanded money from tradespeople passing through.
If you would like to find out more about the history of Flensburg, search for traces of your ancestors in Flensburg, or if you are interested in German-Danish history, then visit the Flensburg city archive. You can look at original documents and obtain information and tips on further reading. The city archive can be found in the Flensburg city hall.
You will find a tabular display about the development of the city and its national political background in the "Chronology of the history of Flensburg" ("Zeittafel zur Flensburger Stadtgeschichte"), which appears in "Flensburg in Geschichte und Gegenwart" ("Flensburg Past and Present"), 1972, page 385 onwards. (For a short version of the background to the city‘s history see: "700 Jahre Flensburg - eine kleine Stadtgeschichte" ("700 years of Flensburg – a brief history of the city"), Flensburg Kl.R.F.St. Edition11, 1984). Recording of recent years and also constant updating are done in consultation with the city archive.
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