Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 92
Land area (2000): 6.933670 sq. miles (17.958123 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.080724 sq. miles (0.209074 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.014394 sq. miles (18.167197 sq. km)
FIPS code: 21266
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 45.948961 N, 94.532478 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 56328
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Flensburg
Wikipedia
Flensburg (, Low Saxon: Flensborg, North Frisian: Flansborj, South Jutlandic: Flensborre) is an independent town (kreisfreie Stadt) in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the centre of the region of Southern Schleswig. After Kiel and Lübeck it is the third largest town in Schleswig-Holstein.
In May 1945 Flensburg was the site of the last government of Nazi Germany, the so-called Flensburg government led by Karl Dönitz, which was in power from 1 May (Hitler's death) for one week until German armies surrendered and the town was occupied by Allied troops. The regime was officially dissolved on 23 May.
The nearest larger towns are Kiel ( south) and Odense in Denmark ( northeast). Flensburg's city centre lies about from the Danish border.
In Germany, Flensburg is known for
- the nationwide database of traffic violators (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), also called Verkehrssünderkartei ("traffic sinner card file")
- its beer Flensburger Pilsener, also called "Flens"
- the centre of the Danish national minority in Germany
- the greeting Moin Moin
- the large erotic mail-order companies Beate Uhse and Orion
- its handball team SG Flensburg-Handewitt
- the Naval Academy at Mürwik with its sail training ship Gorch Fock
Usage examples of "flensburg".
German port of Flensburg near the Danish border, there had been an event of greater significance 500 miles to the south.
A letter from the Danish town of Aabenraa tells how the Halifax crashed in an orchard on the north bank of the Flensburg Fjord near Sonderborg.
Minories, in the far east, meaning a journey nearly as long as to Flensburg, and twice as tiresome.
I found myself, stiff and stuffy, on the platform at Flensburg, exchanging greetings with Davies.
Erratic puffs from the high land behind made her progress timorous at first, but soon the fairway was reached and a true breeze from Flensburg and the west took her in its friendly grip.
Clothes were my own chief care, for, freely as I had purged it at Flensburg, my wardrobe was still very unsuitable, and I had already irretrievably damaged two faultless pairs of white flannels.
It was delightful to see Davies wincing when I described my first night at Flensburg, for I had my revenge at last, and did not spare him.
Davies on the quay, bareheaded and wearing his old Norfolk jacket and stained grey flannels, as at our first meeting in Flensburg station.
Allied discovery of some of the OKW files at Flensburg it has been preserved in the form of notes taken by an unidentified participant.
German General from his new headquarters at Flensburg on the Danish frontier full powers to sign the document of unconditional surrender.
Bernadotte ended by saying that General Schellenberg was now in Flensburg, near the Danish border, eagerly waiting for news, and could make sure that any message would reach Himmler immediately.
According to Gunn, a small island in the duchy of Sleswick in Denmark, now called Angel, of which Flensburg is the metropolis.
If I had disembarked at Flensburg perfectly normally, and Mother had given birth to me there, I would not have been an exemplary case, and today would not provide any cause for quibbling.
Hannah turned around to see Earl Flensburg, the county snowplow and tow truck driver, standing there in his boots and jacket.
Earl Flensburg had obviously finished eating and left, because the circular booth the builder had put in to accommodate the kitchen workers was empty.