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''Tünn'', ''Tönn'' or ''Tönnen'';
Danish: ''Tønning'';
North Frisian: ''Taning'') is a town in the district of
Nordfriesland
Nordfriesland (; da, Nordfrisland; frr, Nordfraschlönj ), also known as North Frisia, is the northernmost district of Germany, part of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. It includes almost all of traditional North Frisia (with the exception o ...
in the
German state of
Schleswig-Holstein.
History
Tönning was destroyed in the
Burchardi flood in 1634. During the
Great Northern War
The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swed ...
, (1700–1721),
Tönning was besieged twice.
Geography
It is located on the northern bank of the
Eider river
The Eider (german: Die Eider; da, Ejderen; Latin: ''Egdor'' or ''Eidora'') is the longest river in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein. The river starts near Bordesholm and reaches the southwestern outskirts of Kiel on the shores of the Balt ...
, approximately eight kilometers away from its mouth at the
North Sea
The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the Norwegian S ...
. Tönning has a population of some 5,000 people.
Transport
Tönning is connected by a regional train with
Sankt Peter-Ording to the West, and
Husum
Husum (, frr, Hüsem) is the capital of the ''Kreis'' (district) Nordfriesland in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The town was the birthplace of the novelist Theodor Storm, who coined the epithet "the grey town by the sea". It is also the home of ...
to the North-East. Tönning is also served by several bus routes.
See also
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