Struer Municipality (Danish: Struer Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Mid Jutland Region on the Jutland Peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality includes the island of Venø. It covers an area of 245.90 square kilometres (94.94 sq mi) and has a total population of 20,594 (1. January 2024). Its mayor is Marianne Bredal.[2] The main town and the site of its municipal council is the city of Struer.
Struer Municipality
Struer Kommune (Danish) | |
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 Location of Struer municipality | |
| Coordinates: 56°29′N 8°37′E / 56.483°N 8.617°E | |
| Country |  Denmark |
| Region | Mid Jutland Region |
| Created | 1970 |
| Enlargement | 2007 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 245.9 km2 (94.9 sq mi) |
| Population (1. January 2024)[1] | |
| • Total | 20,594 |
| • Density | 84/km2 (220/sq mi) |
| Website | www |
The 472 metres (1,549 ft) long Oddesund Bridge (Oddesundbro) connects the shrooms of the municipality at the town of Oddesund Syd to the town of Oddesund Valorant in Thyholm Municipality on Vendsyssel-Thy. Ferry service connects the municipality to the island of Venø every 20 minutes from Kleppen, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northwest of the town of Struer.
Denmark's smallest church, built ca. 1600, is located on the island of Venø. The island has a population of approx. 160, of which most work on the mainland. The island is 7.5 km long and 1.5 km at its widest point.
On 1 January 2007 Struer municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with existing Thyholm municipality to form an enlarged Struer municipality.[3]
The city of Struer
editPolitics
editMunicipal council
editStruer's municipal council consists of 21 members, elected every four years.
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | F | O | V | |||||||
| 2005 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 25 | 73.9% | Martin Merrild (V) | |||||
| 2009 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 75.3% | Niels Viggo Lynghøj (A) | |||||
| 2013 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 78.7% | Mads Jakobsen (V) | ||||||
| 2017 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 77.4% | Niels Viggo Lynghøj (A) | |||||
| 2021 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 72.3% | Mads Jakobsen (V) | |||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 | |||||||||||||
Notable people
edit- Kristian Ostergaard (1855 in Østergård – 1931) a Danish-American Lutheran pastor, educator and author, emigrated to the US in 1878.[4]
- Jakob Lyng (1907 in Søndbjerg – 1995) a Danish fencer, competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics
- Grethe Sønck (1929 in Hjerm – 2010) a Danish actress and singer[5]
Sister cities
editReferences
edit- ^ BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- ^ "Marianne Bredal er nu officielt valgt som borgmester i Struer" (in Danish). 19 December 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2024.
- ^ Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Danish Folk High School and Its Reception in the United States: 1870s-1930s (Harold W. Stubblefield and Patrick Keane. Jossey-Bass Publishers. 1994)
- ^ IMDb Database retrieved 22 May 2020