Editing Fehmarn (section)

==History==
[[File:Goldene Krone im Blauen Meer.svg|275px|thumb|"Goldene Krone im blauen Meer"<br>The Golden Crown flag of Fehmarn]]
[[File:Fehmarnsund Ostsee (50704898848).jpg|275px|thumb|[[Fehmarn Sound Bridge]] between [[Großenbrode]] and Fehmarn]]
[[File:Fehmarn2022OSM.png|275px|thumb|Detailed map of Fehmarn]]
[[File:Fehmarn Gemarkungen.png|275px|thumb|Fehmarn and its villages]]
[[File:Belte inter.png|275px|thumb|The Danish island world]]
Earlier names of the island are Femera, Fimbria, Cimbria parva, and Imbra.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/orblatf.html|title = ORBIS LATINUS - Letter F}}</ref> As a part of [[Wagria]], it was settled by the Slavic [[Lechites|Lechitic]] tribe of [[Wagri]] in the [[Early Middle Ages]]. Fehmarn is one of the westernmost places of the former contiguous settlement area of the [[Slavs]], and the westernmost island with a former Slavic settlement. The name of the island itself derives from the [[Polabian language|Polabian]] ''fe more'' (''in the sea''), modern ''v more'', and has the same etymological background as [[Pomerania]], deriving from ''po more'', ''at the sea''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fehmarn.de/de/fehmarn/fehmarn_im_meer_mittendrin/inselinfos_und_geschichte.php|title=Die Sonneninsel Fehmarn}}</ref> [[Puttgarden]] is also a Slavic name, deriving from ''pod gard'', which means ''under the castle'' (on  [[Rügen]] exists a village with the same etymological background, evolving into the modern form [[Putgarten]]).

Other Slavic-founded villages on Fehmarn are Bannesdorf, Dänschendorf, Gahlendorf, Gammendorf-Siedendorf, Gollendorf, Hinrichsdorf, Klausdorf, Kopendorf, Lemkendorf, Meeschendorf, Püttsee, Sahrensdorf, Schlagsdorf, Sulsdorf and Vitzdorf. The villages of Bisdorf, Presen and Staberdorf are either Slavic-founded or founded by Germanic colonists from [[Holstein]], [[Dithmarschen]], [[Frisia]], [[Lower Saxony]] and [[Denmark]], who settled the island from around 1200 onwards. The Slavs inhabiting the island were gradually [[Christianized]] and [[Germanized]].

From the Middle Ages till 1864 Fehmarn formed part of the Danish [[Duchy of Schleswig]]. When the duchy was partitioned in 1544, it formed part of the duchy of [[John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Haderslev|John the Elder]]. Upon his death without heirs in 1580, Fehmarn became part of the [[Duke of Holstein-Gottorp|Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp]].  After the [[Great Northern War]], Fehmarn, along with the rest of Schleswig was united with the Danish crown. In 1864, Schleswig passed to [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] as a result of the [[Second Schleswig War]].

On 26 July 1932, the German Navy's training ship ''[[Niobe (schooner)|Niobe]]'' sank off the island during a sudden squall, with the loss of 69 lives. At Gammendorfer Strand on Fehmarn, within view of the site of the sinking, the Niobe-Denkmal monument was erected.

Since 1963, Fehmarn has been connected to the German mainland by a road and rail bridge crossing the [[Fehmarn Sound Bridge]]. It is 963.40&nbsp;m (3160.76&nbsp;ft.) long and 69 m high.