Flensburg Sentence Examples

Flensburg is a busy centre of trade and industry, and is the most important town in what was formerly the duchy of Schleswig.

Flensburg was probably founded in the 12th century.

At Flensburg in Schleswig he secured control of the largest Baltic shipping concern, and proceeded to build a new fleet of ships, christening one of them the " Hindenburg."

He was educated at the Flensburg gymnasium and the universities of Kiel and Berlin.

A line from Flensburg south-westward to Joldelund and thence northwestward to Hoyer will nearly give the boundary between the two idioms.i The German-French frontier traverses Belgium from west to east, touching the towns of St Omer, Courtrai and Maastricht.

The more important industrial establishments, such as iron foundries, machine works, tobacco and cloth factories, are mainly confined to the large towns, such as Altona, Kiel and Flensburg.

Kiel is one of the chief seaports of Prussia, while oversea trade is also carried on by Altona and Flensburg.

The peninsula of Angeln, between the Gulf of Flensburg and the Schlei, is supposed to have been the original seat of the English, and observers profess to see a striking resemblance between this district and the counties of Kent and Surrey.

The boundary between the Danish and German languages is approximately a line running from Flensburg south-west to Joldelund and thence north-west to Tondern and the North Sea coast; not more than 15% of the entire population of the province speak Danish as their mother-tongue, but the proportion is far larger for Schleswig alone, where there is also a considerable bilingual population.

At a colloquy of preachers in Flensburg (8th April 1529) Hofmann, John Campanus and others were put on their defence.

The son of a goldsmith, he learned the trade of a watchmaker at Flensburg, and exercised it at Berlin and Tondern, 1818-1820.