Glücksburg
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Glücksburg
Lyksborg (Danish) | |
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Location of Glücksburg within Schleswig-Flensburg district Schleswig-Flensburg | |
Government | |
• Mayor | Kristina Franke |
Area | |
• Total | 39.70 km2 (15.33 sq mi) |
Elevation | 19 m (62 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31)[1] | |
• Total | 6,377 |
• Density | 160/km2 (420/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
Postal codes | 24960 |
Dialling codes | 04631 |
Vehicle registration | SL |
Website | stadt.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 (1913-1997), politician (CDU), was mayor of Glücksburg, Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, Federal Minister, President of the Bundestag.
- Gui Bonsiepe (born 1934), designer and design theorist.
References
- Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Glücksburg (Ostsee).
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.