Glücksburg
Glücksburg Lyksborg | |
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Location of Glücksburg Lyksborg within Schleswig-Flensburg district  | |
  Glücksburg Lyksborg  Glücksburg Lyksborg | |
| Coordinates: 54°50′1″N 9°33′0″E / 54.83361°N 9.55000°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Schleswig-Holstein |
| 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 (Template:Lang-da) is a small town northeast of Flensburg in the district Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and is the farmost northern town (German, Kleinstadt with between 5,000 and 20,000 inhabitants) of Germany.
It is situated on the south side of the Flensborg Fjord, an inlet of the Baltic Sea, approx. 10 km northeast of Flensburg. The town was originally the home of the family Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (or simply Glücksburg), since 1863 the royal family of Denmark and since 1905 of Norway. A branch of the family is the former royal family of Greece, which includes Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His descendants, including Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge, are members of the House of Windsor under British law, but genealogically are members of a cadet branch of the House of Glücksburg.
Glücksburg is home to a German Navy base. Among the facilities at the base is the transmitter, callsign DHJ58. DHJ58, situated at 54° 50'N and 9° 32' E, ceased its transmissions on longwave frequency 68.9 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
External links
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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