Editing Ølgod

{{Infobox settlement
| settlement_type = Town
| name = Ølgod
| image_skyline = Ølgod Station 2.jpg
| image_caption = Ølgod railway station
| image_map =
| map_caption =
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Denmark
| coordinates = {{coord|55|48|30|N|8|37|8|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = [[Denmark]]
| subdivision_type1 = Region
| subdivision_name1 = [[Region of Southern Denmark|Southern Denmark]]
| subdivision_type2 = Municipality
| subdivision_name2 = [[Varde Municipality]]
| area_urban_km2 = 2.94
| population_as_of = 2024
| population_footnotes = <ref name="BY3"/>
| population_urban = 3763
| population_density_urban_km2 = auto
| timezone1 = [[Central European Time|CET]]
| utc_offset1 = +1
| timezone1_DST = [[Central European Summer Time|CEST]]
| utc_offset1_DST = +2
| postal_code_type = Postal code
| postal_code = DK-6870 Ølgod
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'''Ølgod''' is a [[railway town]] on the [[Jutland]] peninsula in southwest Denmark. As of 1 January 2024, it had a population of 3,763.<ref name="BY3">[https://m.statbank.dk/TableInfo/BY3?lang=en BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density] The Mobile Statbank from [[Statistics Denmark]]</ref>

Ølgod is served by [[Ølgod railway station]], located on the [[Esbjerg-Struer railway line]].<ref name=DSBOelgodStation>{{cite web|url=https://www.dsb.dk/kundeservice/stationer/olgod/|title=Ølgod Station|publisher=DSB|language=da|accessdate=23 October 2023}}</ref><ref name=ArrivaOelgodStation>{{cite web|url=https://www.arriva.dk/kundeservice/stationer/oelgod-station/|title=Ølgod Station|publisher=Arriva|language=da|accessdate=23 October 2023}}</ref>

Despite the town's relatively small size, Ølgod calls itself "Denmark's smallest [[city]]" due to its relatively large amount of shops, restaurants, associations, healthcare opportunities etc.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Varde Kommune |date=2024 |title=Ølgod |url=https://livetmodvest.dk/lokalsamfund/byer/oelgod/ |access-date=31 August 2024 |website=LivetModVest}}</ref>

== Ølgod Church ==
[[File:Ølgod Kirke2.jpg|thumb|260px|Ølgod Church]]

Ølgod Church is built in the Romanesque style, presumably as a manor church, around 1200. The church tower was built around 1500, while the [[altarpiece]] is from 1596.<ref name="VisitVesterhavet.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.visitvesterhavet.com/northsea/north-sea-vacation/olgod-church-gdk602765 |website=VisitVesterhavet |access-date=7 June 2022|title=Ølgod Church }}</ref>

==Museums==

[[File:Ølgod Museum.jpg|thumb|260px|the entrance of Ølgod Museum and the Culture House]]

Ølgod Museum, located in the Culture House, tells the story of Danish agriculture, from poor heath farmers to democratic modern farmers.

[[File:Hjedding Andelsmejeri.jpg|thumb|260px|Hjedding Andelsmejeri - the dairy museum]]

Hjedding Andelsmejeri, situated about {{Convert|2|km|mi}} south of Ølgod, was the first cooperative dairy in Denmark, founded in 1882. Now it is a museum where the machines that helped to revolutionise the Danish dairy operation are on display.

==Ølgod Municipality==

The former Ølgod Municipality covered an area of {{Convert|247|km2|sqmi}} and had a total population of 11,351 as of 2005.  Ølgod Municipality's last mayor was Erik Buhl Nielsen.

[[File:ØlgodRådhus.jpg|thumb|250px|The former townhall of Ølgod Municipality]]

On 1 January 2007, the municipality ceased to exist as a result of the [[Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007|''Kommunalreformen'']].  It was merged with [[Blaabjerg]], [[Blåvandshuk]], [[Helle municipality|Helle]] and Varde municipalities to form a new [[Varde Municipality]].

== References in popular culture ==
Ølgod native Maren Madsen Christensen wrote a [[memoir]] titled ''Fra Jyllands Brune Heder til Landet Over Havet'' (Eng: ''From Jutland's Brown Heather to the Land Across the Sea'') about her time growing up in Denmark and her later life in [[Yarmouth, Maine]]. Christensen died in 1965, aged 93.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Christensen |first=Maren Madsen |date=2012-01-01 |title=Fra Jyllands brune heder til landet over havet |url=https://tidsskrift.dk/fraribeamt/article/view/76418 |journal=Fra Ribe Amt |language=da |pages=125–168 |issn=2445-7159}}</ref>

== Notable people ==
* [[Mette Magrete Tvistman]] (1741–1827), the first female clockmaker in Denmark. She had her own workshop in Ølgod from 1787 to 1798.
* [[Jacob Stilling-Andersen]] (1858–1933), a dairy manager and businessman.
* [[Hans Vestager]] (born 1945), a retired Lutheran minister and former politician of The [[Danish Social Liberal Party]].
* [[Margrethe Vestager]] (born 1968), a politician, former minister and [[European Commissioner]]. She grew up in Ølgod and is the daughter of Hans Vestager.
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* [[Lars Møller Madsen]] (born 1981), a retired handball player who won the [[2008 European Men's Handball Championship|European Men's Handball Championship in 2008]] with Denmark.

==References==
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* Municipal statistics: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812152043/http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta], delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)]
* Municipal mergers and neighbors: [https://web.archive.org/web/20061208085744/http://kommune.eniro.dk/region/media/nyekommuner.shtml Eniro  new municipalities map]

==External links==
* [http://www.vardekommune.dk/ The new Varde municipality's official website (Danish only)]

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