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Team, Place & City Details

Svendborg Rabbits

Svendborg Rabbits is a Danish professional basketball team, from Svendborg. The club currently plays in the Basketligaen, the top division of basketball in Denmark.

Bakken Bears

Bakken Bears is a Danish professional basketball club based in Aarhus. The club currently play in the Basketligaen, the top tier basketball league in Denmark.

Svendborg
Svendborg

Svendborg is a town on the island of Funen in south-central Denmark, and the seat of Svendborg Municipality. With a population of 26,672 (1 January 2014), Svendborg is Funen's second largest city.

Svendborg Municipality
Svendborg Municipality

Svendborg municipality is a municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the southeast coast of the island of Funen, as well as on the islands of Drejø, Hjortø, Skarø, Thurø, and Tåsinge off Funen's southeastern shores in south-central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 418 km², and has a total population of 59,040 (2008).

Svendborgsund Bridge
Svendborgsund Bridge

The Svendborg Sound Bridge is a bridge that crosses Svendborg Sound between the town of Svendborg on Fyn and Vindeby on the island of Tåsinge in Denmark. It is on the road to the island of Langeland.

Svendborg Gymnasium

Svendborg Gymnasium & HF is one of the largest Upper Secondary Schools in Denmark with 1,000 students and 100 teachers. The school has two academically oriented general upper secondary programmes: the 3-year Upper Secondary School Leaving Examination and the 2-year Higher Preparatory Examination Course (HF)Both programmes prepare pupils for further studies and, at the same time, they develop the pupils' personal and general competence.

Svendborg Friary

Svendborg Friary was a Franciscan friary in Svendborg, on the island of Funen, in the present Region of Southern Denmark, and was one of the earliest Franciscan foundations in Denmark. Like almost all Danish religious houses it was dissolved during the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

Svendborgbanen
Svendborgbanen

Svendborgbanen is the Danish railway line between Odense and Svendborg. The line was opened on 12 July 1876.

Svendborg station
Svendborg station

Svendborg railway station is the principal railway station serving the town of Svendborg on the island of Funen, Denmark. The station was built in 1876 for the opening of Svendborgbanen July 12, 1876.

Svendborg Skibsværft
Svendborg Skibsværft

Svendborg Skibsværft was a shipyard, which was located at Frederiksø in Svendborg, Denmark. It was founded in 1907 and closed in 2001, after building close to 200 ships.

Svendborger Gedichte
Svendborger Gedichte

Svendborger Gedichte is a poetry collection by the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, and the last collection of new poems to be published while he lived. The collection is named after the town of Svendborg on the Danish island of Funen, where Brecht lived during his exile from Nazi Germany.