GER110 Blog: Schleswig Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein

Ry Hammond,Sapphire Albright, Brendan Pucel

photo courtesy of wikipedia

population: ~2,837,641 as of 2011

- income per capita: 2.86%

It's about 15,799km, so it's a fairly large state.

It's located at the north tip of Germany.

The main industries of Schleswig- Holstein consists of Biomedical technology, micro and nano technology, food technology and ship making.

Partnerships:

-Denmark

-Estonia

-Latvia

-Lithuania

-Finland

-France

-Norway

-Poland

-Russia

-Sweden

-China

-Japan

-Maryland

Most of the population is of German and Danish heritage. The Kiel Declaration of 1949 and the Bonn-Copenhagen declarations of 1955 led to an improvement in German-Danish relations, especially since the German- Danish conflict was one year prior in 1948.

In 1918, events in Schleswig- Holstein had wide-reaching repercussions: the naval mutiny at Keil led to the November Revolution of that year, bringing with it an end to the First World War and to German monarchy.

Schleswig and Holstein weren't always the same state, they were their own states owned by Germany (Schleswig) and Denmark (Holstein) before the second Schleswig war between Germany and Denmark in 1864.

Some Famous People you might know:

-Allison Mack

-David Kross

-Eric Braeden

-Dieter Laser

-Lukas Heller

Current governing body: SPD/ Greens

Interesting Places:

Lübeck is the headquarters for the Hanse and the city centre is a world heritage site.

whcards.blogspot.com

Jutland Peninsula isles are a popular tourist area.

photo courtesy of wikipedia

The Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival is a statewide classical music festival held every summer and began in 1986. Events are held at different venues throughout Schleswig Holstein and Northern Germany.

photo courtesy of shmf.de