Glücksburg

Glücksburg (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.

Glücksburg Lyksborg
Glücksburg Castle
Coat of arms
Location of Glücksburg Lyksborg within Schleswig-Flensburg district
Glücksburg Lyksborg Glücksburg Lyksborg
Coordinates: 54°50′1″N 9°33′0″E
Country	Germany
State	Schleswig-Holstein
District	Schleswig-Flensburg
Government
• Mayor	Kristina Franke
Area
• Total	39.70 km^2 (15.33 sq mi)
Elevation	19 m (62 ft)
Population  (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	6,114
• Density	150/km^2 (400/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

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.

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 in 1978

• 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

Glücksburg

Glücksburg Evangelic church

References

1. "Statistikamt Nord – Bevölkerung der Gemeinden in Schleswig-Holstein 4. Quartal 2019 (XLS-file)". Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein (in German).

External links

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