Frederikshavn

Frederikshavn is a Danish city in Frederikshavn municipality, Region Nordjylland, at the northeast coast of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. Its name interprets to "Frederik's harbor". It turned into at first named Fladstrand. The town has a population of 23,296, and is an crucial traffic portal with its ferry connections to Gothenburg in Sweden and Oslo in Norway. The city is widely known for fishing and its fishing and commercial harbours. Frederikshavn's oldest building, Fiskerklyngen, is at the beginning from the mid-sixteenth century, however the homes now there are from 18th–19th centuries.

Frederikshavn became at first known as Fladstrand from its vicinity in Flade parish. The first point out of a agreement is in a letter dated thirteen March 1572 discovered within the Danish chancery letterbooks. It was a fishing village, buying and selling place and crossing point to Norway. The antique Fladstrand church became built among 1686 and 1690. On 31 December 1700 a tax of 500 rigsdaler turned into placed on the town which indicates a fair quantity of alternate.