At the innermost pocket of Schleswig-Holstein’s Flensburg Fjord is a Baltic Sea port soaked in maritime culture and with 800 years of stories to tell. The quay on the west side of the fjord is a nautical journey of discovery with quaint taverns and a historic shipyard on one side and historic sailboats creaking in the water on the other.
For a lot of its life, Flensburg has been Danish. Some monuments bear the coat of arms of Danish royalty, and there’s still a strong Danish community and culture in the city. Trade has also shaped Flensburg in every sense, generating the wealth for splendid monuments in the Early Modern Age and refining a taste for rum since the 1700s.