Flensburg, Minnesota
| Flensburg | |
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 Location in Minnesota
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| Basic data | |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Minnesota |
| County : | Morrison County |
| Coordinates : | 45 ° 57 ′ N , 94 ° 32 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
| Residents : | 225 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 12.5 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 18.2 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) of which 18.0 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) are land |
| Height : | 369 m |
| Postal code : | 56328 |
| Area code : | +1 320 |
| FIPS : | 27-21266 |
| GNIS ID : | 0643739 |
Flensburg is a small town (with the status " City ") in Morrison County in the US -amerikanischen State Minnesota . In 2010 Flensburg had 225 inhabitants.
geography
Flensburg is not far from the geographical center of Minnesota. Several small neighboring towns are spread around Flensburg. The closest of them are Sobieski 6 km away and Swanville 9 km away . Little Falls , the oldest city in Minnesota with a population of over 8,000, is 13 km east of Flensburg. There is also the administrative headquarters of Morrison County , to which Flensburg belongs. About 53 km away is St. Cloud , which has over 65,000 inhabitants. Minneapolis is about 150 km southeast . The Mississippi River is also about 150 km away.
The place Flensburg has an area of 18.2 km², of which 0.2 km² (1.14%) is water.
history
Foundation of Flensburg
In 1870, the Central Minnesota region was settled by immigrants. At the beginning of the settlement of the area, forests were cleared and many sawmills were built. The settlers also bought land and pastures for cattle breeding. The region had also been opened up by rail. So cattle and wood became the most important trade goods in the region.
During the construction of the railway line from Little Falls to Dakota in 1882, a siding was laid near what would later become Flensburg, which led to a sawmill with an associated depot. This siding was called Flynn's Landing or Flynn's Siding (German: Flynns siding ), after the owner of the mill JC Flynn from Little Falls. Otherwise, not much is known about said JC Flynn . At the end of the 1870s he was a teacher at the school in Little Falls, later he became inspector of the Northern Pacific Railroad and deputy in the Parliament ( State Legislature ).
On March 18, 1890, Olaf and Dagmar Searle built part of the said area and thus founded Flensburg. Shortly afterwards, in 1892, Albert Bülow, who came from the German city of Flensburg , founded a post office in the village. As postmaster, he probably had a strong influence on the naming of the place. As a result of his initiative, the place was given the name of his hometown, i.e. the name Flensburg, as generally assumed.
The first church in Flensburg was built between 1885 and 1886,
Origin of name
There are two theories for the origin of the name “Flensburg” . In 1978 Joachim Reppmann and Dietrich Eicke , who came from Flensburg , Germany, examined the background of North German place names in the American Midwest as part of their studies . The first and most obvious possibility is therefore that the place was named after the German city and that the aforementioned Albert Bülow chose the name in memory of his hometown in Schleswig-Holstein .
The second theory, passed down by county historian Harold Fischer , suspects a connection to sawmill owner JC Flynn . The place name was derived from its name and the aforementioned siding that led to its mill, i.e. from the name Flynn's Landing. The second variant thus has a certain similarity to the founding myth of the city of Flensburg in Schleswig-Holstein, which is based on the legend that the knight Fleno built a castle on the Flensburg Fjord and that under his protection the settlement flourished and it finally after him and his Castle was named. Like the knight Fleno , JC Flynn is also a person; and the initial syllable "Flens-" was derived from the respective name. The knight Fleno owned a castle on the fjord and Flynn only owned a track with a mill, where it is not really clear how one got from the track with the mill to a castle, with regard to the final syllable of the name Flensburg. This second theory is obviously less widespread and the first assumption is apparently generally used.
The further development of Flensburg
In 1907 the church was rebuilt with Polish and German inscriptions and on June 17, 1911 the village was granted the status of a village.
Up until the Great Depression in 1929, the local economy developed positively. Wood, potatoes and other products were shipped over the railway and the nearby Mississippi River . The introduction of powdery mildew continued to have a negative impact on agriculture.
The railroad operation was stopped in the 1970s, since then the place can only be reached by road.
In 2011 there was talk of closing the small town's post office. However, the threatened closure apparently did not occur because the Flensburg post office was still open in 2013.
| Population development | |||
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| Census | Residents | ± in% | |
| 1920 | 210 | - | |
| 1930 | 284 | 35.2% | |
| 1940 | 275 | -3.2% | |
| 1950 | 281 | 2.2% | |
| 1960 | 280 | -0.4% | |
| 1970 | 259 | -7.5% | |
| 1980 | 256 | -1.2% | |
| 1990 | 213 | -16.8% | |
| 2000 | 244 | 14.6% | |
| 2010 | 225 | -7.8% | |
| 1920-2000 2010 | |||
Population and population development
For the 2010 census , there were 225 people in 84 households in Flensburg. The population density was 12.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. The average household size was 2.64 people.
The racial the population was composed of 97.3 percent white, 0.4 percent (one person) Native American and 0.4 percent (one person) Asian, 1.8 percent came from two or more races.
29.3 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 52.9 percent between 18 and 64 and 17.8 percent were 65 years or older. 49.8 percent of the population was female.
The average annual income for a household was 66,042 USD . The per capita income was $ 24,529. 6.3 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.
religion
The small town has a Catholic church, the Sacred Heart Parish it has the address: "18 Pine Street Flensburg, MN 56328".
politics
The small town has a town hall with a mayor. The address is: "Flensburg City Hall Flensburg, MN 56328".
Economy and Infrastructure
There is a community center, a post office (address: "38 1st Street N Flensburg, MN 56328-4500"), a gas station, a restaurant, a silo, some craft and commercial businesses and retail outlets as well as a small weather station. Many farmers build v. a. Soybeans , corn and grain .
Sports
In Flensburg there is the "Falcons" baseball team who play their home games in the local community center.
Contacts to Flensburg in Germany
Official contacts
These days there are no official contacts to his great namesake Flensburg in Germany, and there is no partnership. For the 200th anniversary of the United States on July 4, 1976, the German city gave its little namesake a Flensburg flag and received a replica of a historic flag of the United States in return .
further contacts
Nowadays there are only private contacts between the two places called Flensburg.
The area and the history of the region in which Flensburg is also located were researched over many years by Joachim Reppmann , partly together with Dietrich Eicke .
Till Franzens Film Flensburg, Minnesota
Till Franzen , who comes from the northern German city of Flensburg, shot a documentary Flensburg, Minnesota about the small town in 2006 . The film was funded by the Schleswig-Holstein State Film Fund with a sum of 15,300 EUR . The film tells how three visitors from the German city of Flensburg visit and explore the small town. The visit turns into a journey into your own past. The film was made largely at the same time as Till Franzen's film The Blue Border , which is set in the city of Flensburg on the Flensburg Fjord, around 2005/2006. The script as well as the direction was designed by Till Franzen. The camera work was done by Christian Theede , who also comes from the German city of Flensburg. Tim Williams acted as one of the actors . The film was only completed and shown in cinemas in 2009/2010.
Web links
- www.city-data.com - Flensburg, Minnesota
- Private homepage with photos and information about Flensburg, Minnesota
- Flensburg, Minnesota on Google Street View
- Flensburg Falcons (official website of the baseball club)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c American Fact Finder. Retrieved May 26, 2013
- ↑ a b c d e f g Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Flensburg Minnesota
- ↑ a b Minnesota Historical Society: Minnesota Placenames - Township and Village Information ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved on: July 10, 2014
- ↑ a b cf. Flensburg in Amerika, Flensburg in the land of unlimited possibilities ; Retrieved July 10, 2014
- ↑ Cf. Writings of the Society for Flensburg City History (Hrsg.): Flensburg in history and present . Flensburg 1972, page 279
- ↑ Cf. Gundula Hubrich-Messow: Sagen und Märchen aus Flensburg , Husum 1992, page 39
- ↑ Cf. also with Blackmöhle from the saga about the five evil lords of the castle
- ↑ a b Cf. Minnesota Historical Society: Minnesota Placenames - Township and Village Information ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved on: July 10, 2014
- ↑ See Andreas Oeding, Broder Schwensen, Michael Sturm: Flexikon. 725 aha experiences from Flensburg !. Flensburg 2009, article: Flensburg Minnesota
- ↑ See Flensburg - Twice on Earth ; Retrieved July 10, 2014
- ↑ Flensburg residents hear reasons for proposed post office closing ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dated October 28, 2011; Retrieved July 10, 2014
- ↑ USPS to hold meeting on the future of Cushing office , March 27, 2013; Retrieved July 10, 2014
- ^ US Decennial Census. Retrieved May 27, 2013
- ↑ a b c Flensburg Minnesota Community Guide , accessed July 10, 2014
- ↑ St Lawrence Parish, Sacred Heart Parish , accessed April 10, 2018
- ↑ Flensburg Journal, Joachim "Yogi" Reppmann - The Best of Two Worlds , from May 31, 2013; Retrieved on: July 10, 2014
- ↑ See Yogi Reppmann, Moin-Moin, Dedicated to US 1848ers from Schleswig-Holstein and Europe ; Retrieved on: July 10, 2014
- ↑ a b c infomedia-sh.de, State Film Funding Schleswig-Holstein awards funding to 12 projects, Cultural Film Funding S.-H. eV ; Retrieved July 8, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e Filmland Schleswig-Holstein MSH decides on funding ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), from: February 25, 2006; Retrieved July 10, 2014
- ↑ Abobe the Line, agency for authors, directors and actors GmbH, Till Franzen, author, director
- ↑ See infomedia-sh.de, State Film Funding Schleswig-Holstein awards funding to 12 projects, Cultural Film Funding S.-H. eV ; Retrieved July 8, 2014
- ↑ Theater Kontakt, Tim Williams, Sedcard ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved July 10, 2014
- ↑ See Abobe the Line, Agency for Authors, Directors and Actors GmbH, Till Franzen, author, director ; Retrieved July 10, 2014
