Grasten

Grasten is a city at the Sundeved peninsula in South Jutland with 4,311 population, located sixteen km northeast of Krusa, 22 km southeast of Aabenraa and 16 km west of Sonderborg. Grasten belongs to Sonderborg Municipality and is located in Region Syddanmark. Grasten was first stated in 1648 below the German name Grauenstein, which later became Gravenstein.

Around 1700 there has been a set of small homes along the southern shore of the lake for use by way of the fortress's officials. However, they did no longer live solely on services to the fort, however also on crafts and exchange with the encircling farmers. At the quit of the 18th century, schools and poor houses have been constructed. In tahe middle of the nineteenth century, a financial savings financial institution turned into set up, and brick works were constructed around Nybol Nor and a loading place by the fjord. In 1857, the metropolis were given higher connections with its catchment region when organising a brand new avenue among Flensburg and Sonderborg. Grasten had approx.