Schuby Explained

Schuby
Skovby
Image Coa:DEU Schuby COA.svg
Coordinates:54.5203°N 9.4833°W
Image Plan:Schuby in SL.PNG
State:Schleswig-Holstein
District:Schleswig-Flensburg
Amt:Arensharde
Elevation:28
Area:23.94
Postal Code:24850
Area Code:04621
Licence:SL
Gemeindeschlüssel:01 0 59 077
Mayor:Helmut Ketelsen
Party:CDU

Schuby (Danish: Skovby) is a municipality in the district Schleswig-Flensburg, in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is only a few kilometres west from Schleswig.

The name comes from the Danish "Skovby", meaning the "Village in the Woods". Schuby is located on the Bundesautobahn 7, from which it has its "own" exit.

Schuby is part of the Amt ("collective municipality") Arensharde.

The ancestors of Stanford Computer Scientist Donald Knuth emigrated from Schuby.[1]

Carles Puigdemont was arrested at a gas station in this town.

Notes and References

  1. Personal communication at book signing event (Keplers books, Menlo Park, CA, USA) ca. 1998.