Marstal

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Marstal a Danish town on the southeastern tip of the island Ærø is located. Since 1 January 2006 Marstal belongs to the municipality of Ærø, before that it was the administrative seat of the municipality Marstal in the former County of Funen. Since the administrative reform on 1 January 2007 the municipality belongs to Region Syddanmark. In Marstal lived on 1 January 2013 2370 inhabitants.

Marstal is a port and is home to a maritime school. Partly because of this commonality is twinned with Elsfleth was decided on 13 January 1999, which also has a maritime school. After combining with the local municipality Marstal Ærøskøbing this twinning was transferred to the newly created Ærø municipality.

From about 1860 to the 1920s belonged to Mars Taler shipowners, the second largest fleet to Copenhagen of the Danish Merchant Shipping. The Mars Taler Maritime Museum Founded in 1929, documented in extensive collections of original artifacts, models and photographs the development of shipping, particularly in Denmark. Since 2008, in Marstal the schooner " Bonavista " restored on behalf of the Danish National Museum. The work will be conducted to give information panels information can be pursued by a visitor platform.

An historical buildings mainly built in the years 1738 and 1772 Advanced church is mentioned, which took place on the occasion of the outcome of the First World War reunification of Southern Jutland with Denmark was until 1920 a tower. In the church there is a medieval baptismal font, an altar-piece of the Greenland and marine painter JEC Rasmussen (1841-1893) and a Frobenius organ of 1973.

The story Marstal from the battle of Eckernförde until the end of World War II - representative of the history of modern Denmark - Carsten Jensen's novel tells Vi, de druknede ( German: We drowned ) from the year 2006.

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Marstal was connected by a ferry crossing with Rudkøbing on Langeland. This compound was set on January 21, 2013.

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