Editing Christiansfeld (section)

==History==
Most of Christiansfeld was constructed in the years 1773–1800, following a strict city plan that drew inspiration from the earlier Moravian settlements of [[Herrnhaag]] and [[Gnadau]].<ref name = "nominate"/> To encourage construction, king Christian VII promised a ten-year tax holiday for the city and paid 10% of the construction costs of new houses.<ref name = "nominate"/> By 1779, the town's population reached 279, and by 1782, it had about 400 residents.<ref name = "nominate"/> It was one of many towns in [[Schleswig]] officially designated a small [[market town]] (''flække'').

In 1864, Christiansfeld and the rest of Schleswig was ceded to [[Prussia]] as a result of Denmark's defeat in the [[Second Schleswig War]]. It remained a part of Germany until 1920 when, as a part of a [[1920 Schleswig plebiscites|plebiscite]] called for by the [[Treaty of Versailles]], [[Northern Schleswig]] voted to rejoin Denmark. After reunification, the Moravian church lost some of the rights it had obtained as a part of the town's founding in the 18th century. For example, it no longer had the ability to choose the towns leadership, paving the way for the town's first Danish mayor who was not a member of the church in 1920.<ref>[http://www.christiansfeldcentret.dk/00150/00168/ A Town Walk in Christiansfeld] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719122516/http://www.christiansfeldcentret.dk/00150/00168/ |date=19 July 2011 }}</ref> The church also sold its schools at this time due to the declining membership of its congregation.

From 1970 to 2007, the town was the administrative seat of [[Christiansfeld Municipality]], but it lost this status and was placed in the [[Kolding Municipality]] as a part of the [[Municipalities of Denmark|Municipal Reform of 2007 (Kommunalreformen 2007)]].

In 2009 [[Kolding Municipality]] and Realdania-foundation agreed on a 100 million DKK restoration project of the inner-city. In 2012 the [[A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond til almene Formaal|A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond]] donated 60 million DKK for the restoration of the Sister's House.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heggland |first=Nils-Ole |date=2012-01-24 |title=Stenrig A.P. Møller-fond udskriver millioncheck |url=https://www.berlingske.dk/content/item/220006 |access-date=2022-07-06 |website=Berlingske.dk |language=da}}</ref>