Kruså

	Kruså
	Kruså
	Kruså
Basic data
State :	Denmark
Region :	Syddanmark
Municipality ; (since 2007) :	Aabenraa
Coordinates :	54 ° 51 ' N , 9 ° 24' E Coordinates: 54 ° 51 ' N , 9 ° 24' E
Population : ; (2020)	1,510
Height :	36 m ö.h.
Postal code :	6340
Website:	www.aabenraa.dk
	; The main street Flensborgvej shortly after the border crossing

Kruså [ kʀusˈoːʔ ] ( German Krusau ) is a Danish place with almost 1600 inhabitants on the border with Germany , which belongs to the parish of Bov Sogn ( German construction ) and is thus part of the Aabenraa municipality .

location

The place is six kilometers north of Flensburg city center in the Kruså-Tunneldal and is the final stop of the cross-border line 1 of the Aktiv Bus Flensburg . The next larger Danish cities are Aabenraa (Aabenraa) in the north, Sønderborg (Sonderburg) in the east and Tønder (Tønder) in the west. The scenic Fjordvejen road from Kruså to Rinkenæs with the towns of Kollund and Sønderhav is part of the Marguerite Route . The Gendarmstien hiking trail also runs through Kruså , a former control route on which Danish gendarmes patrolled the German-Danish border from 1920 to 1958. The European long-distance hiking trail E1 crosses the border in Kruså. There are also several long-distance cycle routes through Kruså: the national long-distance cycle route DK8, the border route and the North-Baltic Sea cycle route.

history

The nucleus of the place is the water mill at Møllesø , which was closed in 1964 . The place gained importance when the border was drawn in 1920 . Kruså was separated from the neighboring town of Kupfermühle and the southern surrounding area, but from then on it developed into a shopping area.

During the Second World War , the border crossing between Germany and Denmark was secured with a freight car loaded with wood that stood on a short section of track. This car could be rolled onto the road if necessary. Until the completion of the federal motorway 7 ( E 45 ), Kruså-Kupfermühle was the most important German-Danish border crossing. Today this crossing is closed to heavy traffic and most of the border traffic flows through the Padborg border crossing and the Ellund / Frøslev motorway crossing .

A memorial stone and a sculpture at the border crossing remind of the rescue operation of the White Buses , which Folke Bernadotte negotiated at the end of the war .

In the 1950s, Rita Jensen opened a kiosk that also sold pipes. From Kruså, Jensen set up a supermarket chain with branches in Aabenraa , Haderslev , Kollund , at Danfoss in Nordborg , on Rømø , in Sønderborg , in Tønder and even in Aarhus , 160 km away . In 1987 Rita and Poul Jensen sold their name-bearing RITA Supermarked store on Flensborgvej, which was popular with regular Danish and German customers. In 1994 Coop Danmark took over the chain and in 2004 the now 81-year-old namesake saw the end of her supermarket chain with the closure of the last remaining branch in Kruså, so that only smaller restaurants and shops existed in the village.

In 2010, the Kruså production facility of the Danish-Swedish food company Arla , the largest economic factor in the area, was expanded. Another economic mainstay is the Kruså campsite and bingo hall , where flea markets and bingo evenings are held.

Random checks at a border control in Kruså in December 2008
Danish information sign for motorists
Folke Bernadotte's memorial in Krusau was erected to commemorate his humanitarian achievements in World War II.
Memorial stone on the occasion of the rescue of Norwegian concentration camp prisoners near Kruså
Border controls in the course of the refugee crisis in Europe from 2015
Mill Lake
Watermill