GLUCKSBURG

glucksburg, a town of germany, in the prussian province of schleswig-holstein, romantically situated among pine woods on the flensburg fjord off the baltic, 6 m. n.e. from flensburg by rail. pop. (1905) 1551. it has a protestant church and some small manufactures and is a favourite sea-bathing resort. the castle, which occupies the site of a former cistercian monastery, was, from 1622 to 1779, the residence of the dukes of holstein-sonderburg-glucksburg, passing then to the king of denmark and in 1866 to prussia. king frederick vii. of denmark died here on the 15th of november 1863.