- Strib
:"Strib is also the nickname of the Minneapolis Star Tribune"Strib is a
town inFunen County ,Denmark . It is located at 55° North, 9° East, and has over 5,000 inhabitants. The closest large towns areMiddelfart andFredericia . The town lies at analtitude just a few meters above sea level on the island ofFunen . Strib has an excellentmarina ,high school s, a modernsports center, and goodshopping opportunities.Strib's main landmark is an old whitelighthouse .Fishing ,swimming , andsurfing are popular pastimes in Strib. Seatrout andcod are found year-round near the old lighthouse.Rainfall in Strib averages about 610mm (24 in.) per year, with September being the wettest month and April the driest. Strib has a temperate, maritimeclimate , with an average of seven to ten days of precipitation permonth , and has manyovercast days eachyear .In Strib can you find the only English
red telephone box in Denmark.History
The town of Strib has been in existence for approximately 350 years. Four years after nearby Fredericia had been fortified, and the beginnings of the fortification of Strib, these two towns controlled the movement between
Jutland andFunen . The people managed to build a rampart on the island, to protect from attacks. Threebastions were also built, but the building of the rampart was given up for unknown reasons.The next time Strib appears in history is when the
railroad over Funen was finished in 1866. The settlers in the area were building aferry port commenced operations. As the traffic increased and the town grew, around 1900 Strib became a fashionable place to spend summer vacations. Beachhotel s appeared,music pavilions, and largevilla s, which were built along thecliff s on the north side of thepeninsula .The good summer life lasted until
World War I . In the Fredercia fort a lot of hardship arose, because the people were not allowed to build outside the walls for many years. It was almost natural that the people went to Strib and started a building boom on both sides of Vestergade (Western Street) from around 1910 to 1920.The town was considered a ferry-town until the opening of the first
Little Belt Bridge in 1935. After the bridge opened, development almost came to a standstill. This economic stagnation lasted from about 1935 to 1950. The depression of the 1930s came to an end at the start ofWorld War II .In the 1960s and 1970s and up until the present, Strib has developed much more. Today, however, the town is primarily a town ofcommuter s, since there are not a lot of jobs or industry.References
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