Editing Nexø (section)

==History==
Nexø originated as a fishing village for the parish of [[Bodilsker]] with a chapel attached to St Bodil's Church. In 1346, it was granted rights as a market town, dealing in both the herring trade and in agricultural products. Over the centuries the town has suffered a number of disasters. The [[Lübeck]]ers burned the town in 1510, in 1563 most of the inhabitants died from the plague  and in 1645 it was plundered by 500 [[Sweden|Swedish]] soldiers. In 1756 there was another serious fire and in 1872 a storm damaged the harbour.<ref name=dsd/><ref name=atlas/>

Around 1800, the town became Bornholm's administrative centre. In 1806, 21 ships and 47 boats were registered with Nexø as their home port. In 1879, a new harbour basin was completed and, in 1892, Denmark's first communal drydock was opened. There were a number of subsequent extensions to the harbour facilities.<ref name=atlas>[http://www.kma-bornholm.dk/ "Nexø som helhed"], Bornholm: Atlas over byer, bygninger og miljøer. {{in lang|da}} Retrieved 11 November 2012.</ref> 
The 19th century also saw the development of ship building, the foundation of an iron foundry (1864) and of the Østbornholmske Dampskibsselskab (East Bornholm Steamship Company) which operated a regular service to Copenhagen from 1877.<ref name=dsd/>

[[File:Nexø Havn 1945.jpg|thumb|280px|left|Nexø harbour in May 1945, after the Soviet air raid]]
{{anchor|Allied air attacks}}At the end of [[World War II]], on 7 and 8 May 1945, Nexø (like [[Rønne]]) was bombed by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] aircraft when [[Gerhard von Kamptz]], the commander of the [[Nazi Germany|German]] forces occupying Bornholm, refused to surrender, causing total destruction of the town centre on the harbour and the main square. To ease the ensuing housing problem, the Swedish State donated 175 wooden houses to the town.<ref name=dsd/> The Soviets had alerted the civilian population in advance, therefore the air raid only resulted in ten fatalities.<ref>{{Cite journal|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=c-smAQAAIAAJ&q=R%C3%B8nne+killed|title = Outlook on Bornholm|date = 1948|journal = Russia Today Newsletter}}</ref> Although the rest of Denmark had been liberated on 4 May, the [[Red Army]] occupied Bornholm from 9 May 1945 to 5 April 1946, when an agreement was reached with the Danish authorities and the island finally came under Danish rule once more.

Between 1900 and 1968, a railway connected Nexø with Rønne, the island's largest town.<ref>Ann Vibeke Knudsen: DBJ – Historien om Jernbanerne på Bornholm. Bornholms Museum 2007</ref> The old station building at Rønne is still preserved, whilst Nexø is now host to a railway museum. The former [[Nexø Municipality]] (1970–2002) covered an area of {{convert|104|km2|abbr=on}} with a population of 8,558, but is now included in [[Bornholm Municipality]].<ref name=dsd/> The [[Hyundai Nexo]] is named after the city.