Tønder Municipality
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Tønder Municipality (Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Template:Langx) is a kommune in the Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,252 km2, and has a total population of 36,399 (2025). Its mayor is Jørgen Popp Petersen, a member of the regional Schleswig Party.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Tønder. It consists of six old municipalities, the former Tønder municipality (1970-2006) with 12,706 inhabitants in January 2000 on 184.59 square kilometers among them.
Subdivision
[edit]The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a Template:Lang ("Municipal Reform") that merged a number of existing parishes:
- Abild Parish
- Hostrup Parish
- Møgeltønder Parish
- Tønder Parish
- Ubjerg Parish
Locations
[edit]| Tønder | 7,500 |
| Løgumkloster | 3,500 |
| Toftlund | 3,200 |
| Skærbæk | 3,100 |
| Bredebro | 1,400 |
| Agerskov | 1,200 |
| Højer | 1,100 |
| Møgeltønder | 800 |
| Abild | 500 |
| Template:Ill | 500 |
| Template:Ill | 450 |
| Template:Ill | 450 |
| Brøns | 400 |
| Template:Ill | 350 |
| Døstrup | 350 |
| Template:Ill | 300 |
| Template:Ill | 300 |
| Template:Ill | 270 |
| Havneby | 270 |
| Template:Ill | 270 |
History
[edit]On 1 January 2007, Tønder municipality was enlarged as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007) when the Bredebro, Højer, Løgumkloster, Nørre-Rangstrup (without Bevtoft Parish), and Skærbæk municipalities were merged into the new Tønder municipality.
Politics
[edit]Tønder's municipal council consists of 31 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has nine political committees.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Municipal council
[edit]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]] | [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[New Right (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Socialist People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Liberal Alliance (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Christian Democrats (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | Template:Tooltip | [[Danish People's Party|Template:Font color]] | [[Schleswig Party|Template:Font color]] | Template:Tooltip | [[Venstre (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | ||||
| 2005 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 31 | 73.0% | Vagn Terkel Pedersen (V) | |||||
| 2009 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 68.1% | Template:Ill (V) | |||||||
| 2013 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 73.3% | ||||||
| 2017 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 72.0% | Henrik Frandsen (V) | ||||
| 2021 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 69.8% | Template:Ill (S) | |||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 | |||||||||||||||
North Schleswig Germans
[edit]Tønder Municipality is home to the only officially recognised ethno-linguistic minority of Denmark proper, the North Schleswig Germans. This minority makes up about 6% of the total population of the municipalities of Aabenraa/Apenrade, Haderslev/Hadersleben, Sønderborg/Sonderburg and Tønder/Tondern. In these four municipalities, the German minority enjoys certain linguistic rights in accordance with the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
References
[edit]- Municipal statistics: Danmarks Statistik kommunefakta, delivered from DST.dk
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
External links
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