Flensburg

Flensburg, a shipping-town in the Prussian province of Sleswick-Holstein, at the extremity of Flensburg fjord, an inlet of the Baltic, 19 miles N. of the town of Sleswick. Its principal industrial establishments embrace iron and machine works, copper and zinc factories, shipbuilding-yards, brick, cement, and lime works, and breweries; fishing and fish-curing are also carried on. Along with Sleswick-Holstein, Flensburg passed from Denmark to Prussia in 1864. Pop. (1875) 26,525; (1885) 33,094; (1890) 36,894.