Tinglev
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Tinglev (Template:Langx) is a town with a population of 2,799 (1 January 2025)[1] in Aabenraa Municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. Tinglev is a base for German minority institutions in Southern Jutland, the minority Schleswig Party receiving 14.8% of the town's vote in the municipal elections of 2025.[2]
From 1866 until 1920, Tinglev was part of the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein and formed a part of Imperial Germany. Notable figures born there include Hjalmar Schacht, a liberal economist who introduced a wide variety of schemes in Germany before and during The Third Reich to tackle the effects that the Great Depression had on that country, and was a key player in Nazi Germany's economic steps towards re-armament.
Tinglev Municipality
Until 1 January 2007, Tinglev was also a municipality (Danish: kommune) in the former South Jutland County. The city covered an area of Template:Convert, with a total population of 10,148 (2005). Its last mayor was Susanne Beier, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. The municipality was created in 1970 due to a Script error: No such module "Lang". ("Municipality Reform") that combined several existing parishes: Template:Div col
Template:Div col end Tinglev municipality ceased to exist due to the Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Bov, Lundtoft, Rødekro, and Aabenraa municipalities to form the new Aabenraa Municipality. This created a municipality with an area of Template:Convert and a total population of 60,151 (2005).
Notable people
- Hjalmar Schacht (1877 in Tingleff – 1970) was a German economist, banker and politician
- Jane Schumacher (born 1988 in Tinglev) is a Danish team handball player
- Line Vedel Hansen (born 1989), a Danish professional golfer, lives in Tinglev
In popular culture
The adventure role-playing game Gerda: A Flame in Winter, developed by Copenhagen-based games studio PortaPlay[3] and published in 2022 by Don't Nod, is set entirely in Tinglev and the surrounding countryside. The game's story was inspired by the life of director Hans Von Knut Skovfoged's half-German, half-Danish grandmother who contributed to the Resistance against the Nazis.[4]
References
External links
- Aabenraa municipality's official website Template:In lang - Template:In lang
- Aabenraa tourist offic Template:In lang - Template:In lang
- Municipal statistics - NetBorger Kommunefakta Template:In lang - Template:In lang
- Municipal statistics - KMD aka Kommunedata Template:In lang
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map Template:In lang
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- ↑ BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- ↑ Valg.dk. Kommunalvalg 2025; Stemmefordeling i Tinglev
- ↑ https://portaplay.dk/en/
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