Grenaa

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Grenaa
Coat of arms of Grenaa
Grenaa (Denmark)
Grenaa
Grenaa
Basic data
State : DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Region : Midtjylland
Municipality
(since 2007) : 		North Djurs
Coordinates : 56 ° 25 '  N , 10 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 25 '  N , 10 ° 53'  E
Population :
(2020) 		14,251
Postal code : 8500
Sister cities : Siegen-Wittgenstein

Åmål

Website: www.norddjurs.dk
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Grenå beach

Grenaa (also Grenå) is a port town on the Kattegat on the Djursland peninsula in Jutland , Denmark . 14,251 inhabitants live in the village (as of January 1, 2020). It is the main town and administrative seat of the municipality of Norddjurs (since 2007).

The city forms the geographical center of Denmark.

history

The place name Grenaa developed from Grindhøgh (around 1250), so possibly means Grus - or gravel hill . Grenaa received city ​​rights as early as 1445 . Until the 19th century it lay between the Baltic Sea and Kolindsund , at that time the second largest inland lake in Denmark; the lake fell dry due to siltation and drainage.

The city formed an independent municipality Grenaa in the Århus district until 2006 . The municipality covered an area of ​​196 square kilometers and had 18,641 inhabitants (2004). With the administrative district reform, which came into force on January 1, 2007, the municipalities of Grenaa, Nørre Djurs and Rougsø were merged into one municipality.

Culture and sights

A half-timbered house in Søndergade 1 from 1760 houses a department of Museum Østjylland and the Danish fishing museum Dansk Fiskerimuseum .

The Thorsø Høje are grave mounds, they are 7.2 km northwest of Grenaa in the triangle between the villages Dalstrup, Thorsø and Villersø.

Economy and resident companies

The Fornæs Skibsophug scrapping yard is the world market leader in terms of the number of ships scrapped.

The Anholt offshore wind farm , whose base port is Grenaa, is located around 15 km from the coast .

traffic

The northern branch of Aarhus Letbane ends at Grenaa station .

There are ferry connections to the island of Anholt and to Varberg in Sweden .

  • Grenaa church

  • The river Grenå

  • Marina

  • Kite surfers in winter

  • The shopping and restaurant mile of the marina is located on stilts

Personalities

  • Sören Kanne, member of the sea rescue. Monument next to the church.
  • Hermann Worch (1890–1935) lived as a German exile in Grenaa until his death in 1935.
  • Anders Fogh Rasmussen (* 1953) was born in nearby Ginnerup .

sons and daughters of the town

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistics Banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)
  2. ↑ Stednavne Afdeling for Navneforskning på Nordisk Forskningsinstitut, accessed on January 11, 2015
  3. ↑ Museum Østjylland: Om museet ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on November 30, 2011 (Danish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / museumoj.randers.dk
  4. ↑ "Die Stahlfresser" from Grenå ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Mare online, June 2007, accessed January 11, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mare.de

Web links

Commons : Grenaa  - collection of images, videos and audio files