Editing Hundested (section)

==History==
The name Hundested is first mentioned as a field "Hundersted" in 1682. As a village only in a parish register from 1844.

The Halsnæs peninsula was formerly the site of several villages. Kikhavn was a fishing village from at 16th century. In 1776, [[Frederiksværk]]'s founder, [[Johan Frederik Classen]], established Grønnessegård manor on the peninsula in 1776, shutting down the villages of Gryndese, Rorup and Fornerup.

It is believed that the first building in present-day Hundested was a house for the local [[Maritime pilot|pilots]] built in the 1835.<ref name=Gyldendal>{{cite web|title=Hundested|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Danmarks_geografi_og_historie/Danmarks_geografi/Sj%C3%A6lland/Hundested|publisher=Gyldendal|accessdate=17 June 2015|language=Danish}}</ref>

[[Image:Hundested Havn (c. 1890).jpg|220px|thumb|Hundested in about 1890]]
A breakwater (''Læmolen'') was built at Hundested in 1862 and Lynæs Harbour was built in 1872. It soon developed into the most important fishing port on Zealand and was expanded several times before most of the fishing vessels moved to Hundested Harbour in about 1910. Most of the fish was sold to traders from [[Frederikssund]] before the railway which opened in 1916 provided easy access to Copenhagen by way of [[Hillerød]]. The ferries to [[Rørvig]] began operating in 1927 and they were joined by the ferries to [[Grenå]] in 1934.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hundesteds Historie|url=http://www.hundested.info/historier.html|website=Hundested Info|accessdate=17 June 2015|language=Danish|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150617040740/http://www.hundested.info/historier.html|archivedate=17 June 2015}}</ref> The harbor attracted many new companies, including the fish auctions, an importer of coal, a [[canning|canned food]] factory, dockwayd and Hundested Motor Factory which for generations produced reliable engines for Danish fishing vessels. A new industrial district was established in the eastern outskirts of town, attracting several companies from the plastic and metal industries in the 1960s and 1970s. The harbor was expanded with a new ferry terminal in 1967, a new freight terminal in 1987 and a new container terminal in 1995.

A downturn in the fishing industry in the 1980s hit Hundested hard and the freight and passenger lines to Grenå ceased operations in 1996.<ref name=Gyldendal/>

On 1 January 2007 Hundested municipality ceased to exist due to [[Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007|''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007)]]. It was merged with [[Frederiksværk]] municipality to form the new [[Frederiksværk-Hundested municipality]]. The name was changed to [[Halsnæs municipality]] on 1 January 2008. This created a municipality with an area of {{convert|120|km2|abbr=on}} and a total population of 30,253.