Gelting is a municipality in the district of

Schleswig-Flensburg Schleswig-Flensburg (; da, Slesvig-Flensborg) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Rendsburg-Eckernförde, Dithmarschen and Nordfriesland, the Region Syddanmark in Denma ...

, in

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. It is situated near the

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, approx. 33 km northeast of

Schleswig The Duchy of Schleswig ( da, Hertugdømmet Slesvig; german: Herzogtum Schleswig; nds, Hartogdom Sleswig; frr, Härtochduum Slaswik) was a duchy in Southern Jutland () covering the area between about 60 km (35 miles) north and 70 km ...

, and 30 km east of Flensburg. Gelting is part of the '' Amt'' ("collective municipality")

Geltinger Bucht Geltinger Bucht is an ''Amt (subnational entity), Amt'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Its seat is in Steinbergkirche. It was formed on 1 January 2008 from the former ''Ämter'' Ge ...

Shield or Coat of Arms

Heraldic Description:: „The coat of arms is blue under a radiant golden half sun a golden plow with a silver ploughshare.“ Kommunale Wappenrolle Schleswig-Holstein/ref>

Gelting Personalities

* Detlev von Ahlefeldt (1612–1686), Military officer, War Commissioner for the Danish King * Seneca Freiherr von Gelting (1715-1786), regional landowner *

Hermann Bendix Todsen Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Miss ...

(1864–1946), Mayor of Flensburg * Herbert Kortum (1907–1979), Scientist; computer scientist and DDR computer pioneer * Vera Dietz Motika(1936-2020 ) singer and performer; emigrated to Columbus, Ohio, USA. By the act of emigration, she gave up all chance to obtain a European title.

External links

Collection of images of the area
*
Material of the Gelting regions
in der in the collections at the regional library in Berlin (PDF; 275 kB)

References

Schleswig-Flensburg {{SchleswigFlensburg-geo-stub