Flensburg

Flensburg (; Danish and ; ; ) is an independent town in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg is the north of the region of Schleswig. After Kiel and Lübeck, it is the third-largest town in Schleswig-Holstein. Flensburg's city centre lies about from the Danish border. Known for In Germany, Flensburg is known for: the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (roughly: National Driver and Vehicle Register) with its Verkehrssünderkartei (literally: "traffic sinner card file"), where details of traffic offences are stored its beer Flensburger Pilsener, also called "Flens" the centre of the Danish national minority in Germany the greeting Moin the large erotic mail-order companies Beate Uhse and Orion its handball team, SG Flensburg-Handewitt the Naval Academy at Mürwik being the final seat of the Third Reich from 1 May 1945, following Adolf Hitler's death, until the Third Reich's final, formal dissolution in early June 1945. Geography