Tinglev

Tinglev Church from around 1100.

Tinglev (German: Tingleff) is a town with a population of 2,721 (1 January 2021)^[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 15.9% of the town's vote in the municipal elections of 2017.^[2]

From 1866-1920 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 in order 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.

Until 1 January 2007 Tinglev was also a municipality (Danish: kommune) in the former South Jutland County. The municipality covered an area of 326 km² (126 sq mi), and has 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 kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that combined a number of existing parishes:

Tinglev municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Bov, Lundtoft, Rødekro, and Aabenraa municipalities to form a new Aabenraa municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 951 square kilometres (367 sq mi) and a total population of 60,151 (2005).

Jane Schumacher, 2016

Notable people[]

• Hjalmar Schacht (1877 in Tingleff – 1970) a German economist, banker and German politician
• Jane Schumacher (born 1988 in Tinglev) a Danish team handball player
• Line Vedel Hansen (born 1989) a Danish professional golfer, lives in Tinglev

References[]

External links[]

• Aabenraa municipality's official website (in German) - (in Danish)
• Aabenraa tourist offic (in German) - (in Danish)
• Municipal statistics - NetBorger Kommunefakta (in German) - (in Danish)
• Municipal statistics - KMD aka Kommunedata (in Danish)
• Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map (in Danish)

Coordinates: 54°56′N 9°15′E / 54.933°N 9.250°E / 54.933; 9.250

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