Flensburg and the Sønderjylland/Schleswig region

Flensburg, the Gate to Scandinavia, lies at the heart of one of Europe’s oldest cultural landscapes, on the idyllic Flensburg Fjord in the “Danish south seas”. The Sønderjylland-Schleswig region and its festival partners in Tøndern, Sønderborg, Haderslev, Husum, Unewatt, Kappeln and Eckernförde have a joint 700-year history. Up to the war of 1864 the region was Danish, then German. In the plebiscite of 1920 the northern part voted to belong to Denmark. There are very active Danish and German minorities on the respective sides of the border.

Further information is available at:

folkBALTICA
Festival office
Süderfischerstrasse 8
24937 Flensburg
Tel: (0049) 0461 49 355 68
Fax: (0049) 0461 49 355 69
info@folkbaltica.de
www.folkbaltica.de