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After the fall of the [[Hanseatic League]] in the 16th century, Flensburg was said to be one of the most important trading towns in the [[Scandinavia]]n area. Flensburg merchants were active as far away as the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean]], [[Greenland]], and the [[Caribbean Sea|Caribbean]]. The most important commodities, after herring, were [[sugar]] and [[whale oil]], the latter from [[whaling]] off Greenland. But the [[Thirty Years' War]] put an end to this boom time. The town was becoming [[Protestantism|Protestant]] and thereby ever more German culturally and linguistically, while the neighbouring countryside remained decidedly Danish.
In the 18th century, thanks to the [[rum]] trade, Flensburg had yet another boom. [[Cane sugar]] was imported from the [[Danish West Indies]] (now the [[United States Virgin Islands|US Virgin Islands]]) and refined in Flensburg. Only in the 19th century, as a result of industrialization, was the town at last outstripped by the competition from cities such as [[Copenhagen]] and [[Hamburg]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://taz.de/!5974769/| title=The Call of Rum | author=FRANK KEIL | publisher=[[Die Tageszeitung]]| date=2023-11-25 | access-date=2024-02-16|language=de}}</ref>
The rum produced in Flensburg was then reintegrated into [[West Indies|West Indian]] trade routes, which as of 1864 moved away from the Danish West Indies to the [[Colony of Jamaica|British colony of Jamaica]] instead. It was imported from there, blended, and sold all over Europe. There is now only one active rum distillery in Flensburg, "A. H. Johannsen".
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