Struer Municipality
Template:Infobox settlement Struer Municipality (Template:Langx) 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 Template:Convert and has a total population of 20,229 (1. January 2025). Its mayor is Marianne Bredal.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The main town and the site of its municipal council is the city of Struer.
The Template:Convert 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, Template:Convert 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.<ref>Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map Template:Webarchive</ref>
The city of Struer
[edit]Politics
[edit]Municipal council
[edit]Struer'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 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [[Social Democrats (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Danish Social Liberal Party|Template:Font color]] | [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[New Right (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Socialist People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Danish People's Party|Template:Font color]] | [[Venstre (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | |||||||
| 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.<ref>The Danish Folk High School and Its Reception in the United States: 1870s-1930s (Harold W. Stubblefield and Patrick Keane. Jossey-Bass Publishers. 1994)</ref>
- 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<ref>IMDb Database retrieved 22 May 2020</ref>
Sister cities
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[edit]External links
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