What is Flensburg?
{{Infobox German location |name = Flensburg, Germany |type = Town |image_photo = Luftbild Flensburg Schleswig-Holstein Zentrum Stadthafen Foto 2012 Wolfgang Pehlemann Steinberg-Ostsee IMG 6187.jpg |image_caption = Flensburg Harbour in 2012 |image_coa = DEU Flensburg COA.svg |image_flag = Flagge Flensburg.svg |coordinates = {{coord|54|46|55|N|09|26|12|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |state = Schleswig-Holstein |district = urban |elevation = 12 |area = 56.38 |population = 85942 |Stand = 2015-12-31 |postal_code = 24901–24944 |area_code = 0461 |licence = FL |Gemeindeschlüssel = 01 0 01 000 |divisions = 13 [[Stadtbezirk]]e |website = {{url|http://www.flensburg.de/}} |mayor = [[Simone Lange]] |Bürgermeistertitel = Oberbürgermeister |party = [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]] }} '''Flensburg''' ([[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Low Saxon]]: ''Flensborg'', [[Frisian language|Frisian]]: ''Flensburch'', [[North Frisian language|North Frisian]]: ''Flansborj'') is a city in [[Germany]]. It is next to the border with [[Denmark]]. About 90,164 people live in Flensburg. The city has a [[university]]. A very well known part of Flensburg is [[Mürwik]]. There lies a small navy harbour. Flensburg lives on tourism, students and the German navy forces. ==History== There was a first settlement about 1200 A.D., which became a city in 1284. In the following [[century]], Flensburg became the [[Economics|economic]] centre of the [[Duchy]] of [[Schleswig]]. In 1409 there were battles between people of the Duchy of [[Holstein]] and the [[Denmark|Danish]] crown about the control of Schleswig. In 1412 and 1500 there were bad [[plague]]s in Flensburg. In 1485, there was a big fire in the city. Between 1460 and 1864 Flensburg was the second most important [[harbour]] in Denmark after [[Copenhagen]]. Since the 16th century Flensburg was an