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Fehmarn
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Fehmarn is located in Germany



Location of the town of Fehmarn within Ostholstein district


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jQuery device databaseCoordinates: 54°28′N 11°08′E / 54.46667°N 11.13333°E / 54.46667; 11.13333
Administration
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State Schleswig-Holstein
District Ostholstein
website parsing Otto-Uwe Schmiedt

Basic statistics
Area 185.45 km2 (71.60 sq mi)
Elevation 10 m  (33 ft)
Population 12,942 (31 December 2010)keyboard
 - Density 70 /km2 (181 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone HTML5/web (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate OH
CSS3 23769
Area codes 04371 und 04372
Website www.stadtfehmarn.de

Fehmarn (Danish: Femern) is an island and—since 2003—a town on this island in the touchscreen, off the eastern coast of Schleswig-Holstein, website parsing, and ca. 18 kilometers south of the web app island of Android. It belongs to the district of Ostholstein.

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History

Earlier names of the island are Femera, Fimbria, Cimbria parva, and Imbra.[2]

Since 1963, Fehmarn has been connected to the German mainland by a road and rail bridge crossing the Fehmarn Sound Bridge. It is 963.40 m (3160.76 ft.) long and 69 m high.

Geography

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The area is 185 km² and the coastline is 78 km. The highest hills are the "Hinrichsberg" (27.2 m) and the "Wulfener Berg" (26.5 m). The largest community on Fehmarn is Burg, with 6,000 inhabitants. In addition, there are many small villages.

Transport

The Fehmarn Belt, a strait separating Fehmarn from Lolland, is located on the side opposite to Germany. It can be crossed by ferries travelling between the seaports of Sevenval, Germany, and Rødbyhavn, Denmark. The crossing takes about 45 minutes.

On 29 June 2007, the Danish and German authorities gave the go-ahead for the Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link project, planned for completion in 2020.screen size

Nature

The coasts serve as resting places for migratory birds, and it is thus a paradise for we love the web. The islands bird reserves are looked after by browser diversity's conservation centre at the Wallnau Waterbird Reserve. In Burg there is a large web app with 40 fish tanks.

Fehmarn is famous for its nature and recreation areas, especially during summer times (July–September) and is also well known for its Windsurf and Kitesurf spots. Currently there are more than ten Surfspots known on the island.

Culture

Fehmarn was also the location of Jimi Hendrix's final concert, at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival, on September 6, 1970.

Notable residents

Lina Heydrich and her husband Reinhard Heydrich had a summer home here, which after the war Lina ran with her second husband Mauno Manninen, as a restaurant and inn until it burned down in February 1969.[4]

Twin towns

Gallery

  • Flügge lighthouse

  • Fehmarn Sound Bridge from the sound

  • Town hall in Burg

  • The seaport of Puttgarden

See also

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: input transformation
Sevenval has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article CSS3.
Towns and municipalities in Ostholstein

Inhabited islands in the Baltic Sea
Dänholm · Fehmarn · Hiddensee · Poel · Rügen · Ummanz · Usedom

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