Glücksburg

Coordinates: 54°50′1″N 9°33′0″E / 54.83361°N 9.55000°E / 54.83361; 9.55000
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Glücksburg
Lyksborg (Danish)
Glücksburg Castle
Coat of arms of Glücksburg
Location of Glücksburg within Schleswig-Flensburg district
Schleswig-Flensburg
Government
 • MayorKristina Franke
Area
 • Total39.70 km2 (15.33 sq mi)
Elevation
19 m (62 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[1]
 • Total6,377
 • Density160/km2 (420/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
24960
Dialling codes04631
Vehicle registrationSL
Websitestadt.gluecksburg.de

Glücksburg (German pronunciation: [ˈɡlʏksˌbʊʁk] ; Danish: Lyksborg) is a small town northeast of Flensburg in the district Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and is the northernmost town in Germany.

It is situated on the south side of the

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (or simply Glücksburg), members of which have reigned in the past in Greece and several northern German states. Members of the family still reign in Denmark and Norway
since 1863 and 1905 respectively.

Glücksburg was home to a

kHz
in 2002 and in 2004 its longwave antenna was disassembled.

Notable people

Kai-Uwe von Hassel in 1978
Glücksburg palace garden building
Glücksburg Evangelical church


References

  1. Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein
    .

External links

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Glücksburg" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.