Ølgod
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">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>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=ArrivaOelgodStation>Template:Cite web</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>Template:Cite web</ref>
Ølgod Church
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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">Template:Cite web</ref>
Museums
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Ølgod Museum, located in the Culture House, tells the story of Danish agriculture, from poor heath farmers to democratic modern farmers.
Hjedding Andelsmejeri, situated about Template:Convert 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
[edit]The former Ølgod Municipality covered an area of Template:Convert and had a total population of 11,351 as of 2005. Ølgod Municipality's last mayor was Erik Buhl Nielsen.
On 1 January 2007, the municipality ceased to exist as a result of the Kommunalreformen. It was merged with Blaabjerg, Blåvandshuk, Helle and Varde municipalities to form a new Varde Municipality.
References in popular culture
[edit]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>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Notable people
[edit]- 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.
- Lars Møller Madsen (born 1981), a retired handball player who won the European Men's Handball Championship in 2008 with Denmark.
References
[edit]- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map