Glücksburg

Glücksburg
Lyksborg
Glücksburg; Lyksborg
	Glücksburg Castle
	; Coat of arms
	; Coat of arms
	Glücksburg; Lyksborg Location of Glücksburg; Lyksborg within Schleswig-Flensburg district
	Coordinates: 54°50′1″N 9°33′0″E / 54.83361°N 9.55000°ECoordinates: 54°50′1″N 9°33′0″E / 54.83361°N 9.55000°E
Country	Germany
State	Schleswig-Holstein
District	Schleswig-Flensburg
Government
• Mayor	John Witt
Area
• Total	39.70 km2 (15.33 sq mi)
Elevation	19 m (62 ft)
Population (2016-12-31)[1]
• Total	5,995
• Density	150/km2 (390/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	24960
Dialling codes	04631
Vehicle registration	SL
Website	stadt.gluecksburg.de

Glücksburg (Danish: Lyksborg) is a small town in the district Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and is the farmost northern settlement 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 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

↑ "Statistikamt Nord – Bevölkerung der Gemeinden in Schleswig-Holstein 4. Quartal 2016] (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.

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[1] "Statistikamt Nord – Bevölkerung der Gemeinden in Schleswig-Holstein 4. Quartal 2016] (XLS-file)". Statistisches Amt für Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein (in German).