Tourist Attractions in Flensburg

At the north end of Flensburg's old town rises the massive Nordertor (1595).

Glücksburg, 9km/6mi northeast of Flensburg, has a Schloss built in 1582-87, with a museum displaying pictures, tapestries and leather wall coverings.

The Schloss is one of the main Renaissance buildings in Schleswig-Holstein. It consists of a block of three adjacent gabled houses and four substantial octagonal corner towers. The furnishings are typical of royal lifestyle and ostentation.

In Lutherplatz is the Flensburg Municipal Museum (culture, art, folk art; Emil Nolde Collection; changing exhibitions).

The Alt-Flensburger Haus (1780) is the family home of the airship pioneer Hugo Eckener (1868-1954).

Southwest of the Nordermarkt in Flensburg can be found the little Gothic church of the Holy Ghost (1386; from 1588 a Danish church).

To the east of St Mary's, on Flensburg's harbor, is the Kompagnietor (1583).

In the Flensburg Nordermarkt, the old marketplace, are the Neptune Fountain (1758) and the Schrangen (1595), in which the bakers and butchers once sold their wares.

East of the Heimatmuseum, near Angelburger Strasse, is St John's Church, the oldest in Flenburg (12th C.; wall paintings, etc.).

To the north of the Nordermarkt in Flensburg is the little brick-built church of St Mary (13th and 15th C.; Renaissance altar).

The main shopping street in Flensburg's old town runs from south to north under the names of the Holm, Grosse Strasse and Norderstrasse, in which there are a number of well restored patrician and merchants' houses (18th and 19th C.). At the south end is the beautiful Südermarkt, surrounded by gabled houses, with the large Stadtkirche (Town Church) of St Nicholas (14th and 16th C.; Roccoco high altar, Renaissance organ).

To the east of St Nicholas's Church in Flensburg, on the Süderhofenden, is the Natural History Museum (native flora and fauna, geological history). The same building houses the Municipal Library.

On the Schiffsbrücke in Flensburg is the interesting Shipping Museum (pictures and models of ships, nautical apparatus and equipment); museum harbor (Museumshafen).