Glückstadt on the Elbe
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Glückstadt is a town in the
Steinburg district of Schleswig-Holstein. It is located on the right bank of the Lower
Elbe at the confluence of the small
Rhin river , about 45 km (28 mi) northwest of
Altona . Glückstadt is part of the
Hamburg Metropolitan Region .
In 1845 Glückstadt station opened on the Marsh Railway line from Elmshorn , which in 1857 was continued to Itzehoe . Today trains run from Hamburg-Altona station to Westerland on Sylt island . Glückstadt also has a ferry service across the Elbe to Wischhafen in Lower Saxony. It is a stop on the German Ferry Road theme road and the Elbe Cycle Route .
King Christian IV of Denmark, founder of Glückstadt © Florian Zet/cc-by-sa-3.0
Holstein-Glückstadt remained a possession of the
Danish Crown until its defeat in the
Second Schleswig War of 1864. It was occupied by Austria, but finally incorporated into the
Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein in the aftermath of the 1866
Austro-Prussian War .
Heinrich Gravert Schmidt, son of Jacob Gravert Kleinfinger and Gesche Schmidt, was the main “Schlachtermeister” (butcher) on Schleswig-Holstein, exporting processed meat to America since 1830 to 1886. This trade was continued until 1907 with the help of his son Captain Ferdinand Gravert Borchers, being involved in the nitrate ocean race from South America, where his descendant Captain Alex Gravert Salcedo keeps the maritime tradition managing tankers and offshore vessels.
The historic city center, the successful efforts of urban renewal and the culinary specialty “Glückstädter
soused herring ” make the city particularly interesting for day tourism.
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