Gråsten

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Gråsten

Total population

4,168

Coordinates54.91°, 9.59°

Demographic figures from Statistics Denmark. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Gråsten is a town with a population of 4,291 on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark by the Nybøl Nor at an inlet of the Flensburg Fjord. It belongs to the Sønderborg municipality in Region of Southern Denmark. The town is located almost exactly at the center of a triangle defined by the towns of Aabenraa, Flensburg and Sønderborg Castle.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

M

Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen

German psychoanalyst (1917–2012)

Z

Zacharias Lund

German librarian

J

Jørgen Ringnis

Danish carver

Bertel Haarder

Danish politician (born 1944)

A

Arndt Georg Nissen

German painter and yacht racer (1907-1979)

Ludvig Harboe

Norwegian bishop

Wilhelm Voigt

German architect (1857–1916)

Richard Dethlefsen

German architect and art historian (1864–1944)

P

Peter Jebsen

Norwegian politician (1824-1892)

Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen

Danish historian (1840-1897)

A

Andreas Hohwü

clockmaker (1803–1885)

Johannes Gelert

Danish-American sculptor (1852-1923)

O

Otto Christian Leonor Gelert

Danish botanist (1862-1899)

Jens Jensen

Danish-American landscape designer (1860–1951)

C

Christian Petersen

American sculptor of Danish descent (1885–1961)

K

Kresten Refslund Thomsen

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Southern Denmark

• Egernsund
  0.8 mi away · pop. 1,556
• Rinkenæs
  1.6 mi away · pop. 1,223
• Broager
  3.6 mi away · pop. 3,300
• Tørsbøl
  3.8 mi away · pop. 270
• Nybøl
  3.8 mi away · pop. 1,045
• Ullerup
  4.7 mi away · pop. 416
• Vester Sottrup
  5 mi away · pop. 1,470
• Dybbøl
  5.3 mi away · pop. 2,495
• Felsted
  5.6 mi away · pop. 1,116
• Holbøl
  5.9 mi away
• Blans
  6 mi away · pop. 509
• Kollund Østerskov
  6.4 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Official Identifiers