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Falkenberg is a locality and the seat of Falkenberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 20,035 inhabitants in 2010 (out of a municipal total of 41,000). It is located at the mouth of river Ätran. The name consists of the Swedish words for falcon (falk) and mountain (berg). The main beach of the town, Skrea strand, was awarded a Blue Flag once again in 2007.
Falkenberg is a town in Sweden.
Falkenberg or Falkenbergs may also refer to:
Falkenberg was a fort in Falkenberg, Sweden. It was first mentioned in 1298. It would later give the town, which was previously known as Ätraby, its name. The fort was the location for several Nordic treaties during the fourteenth century. It was burnt down by count Erik in 1356, but was thereafter rebuilt.
The army of Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson did, under the leadership of Herman Berman besiege the town in 1434. The defenders managed the first attack successfully. They did however realise that they would not be able to continue to hold the fort. Therefore, they choose to put the fort on fire and leave it by water.
The fort was located on the south strand of river Ätran, about from the southern abutment of Falkenberg Bridge. Excavations took place in 1885, as a railway was run through the area. The fort consisted of a tower. It had an inner area of , while the outer area was at the base. The walls are at the thickest at the base, and becomes thinner towards the top. Above the lower, partially intact, parts were brick walls. The group which performed the excavations found remains of brick all over the excavated area. The group also found some loose remains, such as a golden finger ring and a silver coin.
No remains of any other buildings were found. The fort was most likely only used in combat.
The Falkenberg lies in the northwestern part of the district of Celle in northern Germany. It is one of the highest points on the Lüneburg Heath. In good weather Hanover is visible from its summit. It is on the terrain of the NATO facility, the Bergen-Hohne Training Area, in the vicinity of the village of Becklingen.
In 1820 King George IV the United Kingdom tasked the Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory at Göttingen University, Carl Friedrich Gauss, to survey the Kingdom of Hanover. Gauss used the summit of Falkenberg, amongst others, as a triangulation station for his land surveys. Another central trig point was the Falkenberg (150 m über NN) which lay further south.
The Wilseder Berg (169 m above NN), further north, was another central trig point as was the Haußelberg to the east. The trig points of Haußelberg and Falkenberg, which today are hidden by woods, then lay on open, unforested hilltops, probably surrounded by heath. Not until the large systematic afforestation in the 2nd half of the 19th century did the landscape begin to look like it does today.
Part of the triangulation network used for Gauß's survey, depicting the Falkenberg, was represented on the reverse side of the 4th series of 10 Deutschmark banknotes.
Falkenberg is a German locality (Ortsteil) within the borough (Bezirk) of Lichtenberg, Berlin. Until 2001, it was part of the borough of Hohenschönhausen.
Falkenberg is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Carl Frederick Falkenberg, Canadian First World War flying ace
- Christopher Falkenberg, former Special Agent of the United States Secret Service
- Bob Falkenberg, retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman
- Cy Falkenberg, former American pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Dietmar Falkenberg, East German bobsledder
- Eckhard D. Falkenberg, German computer scientist
- Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg, early American settler along the Delaware River
- Johan Falkenberg, Norwegian olympic fencer
- Johannes Falkenberg, Norwegian social anthropologist
- Kenneth Falkenberg, Danish football goalkeeper
- Kim Falkenberg, German footballer
- Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
- Otto Falkenberg, Norwegian sailor
- Paul Falkenberg, German botanist
Fictional characters:
- John Christian Falkenberg, character in the CoDominium series