Gudum Sogn (Slagelse Municipality)

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Basic data
State :	Denmark
Region :	Sjælland
Municipality ; (since 2007) :	Slagelse
Municipality / Office : ; (until the end of 2006)	Slagelse Kommune ; Vestsjællands Amt
Harde / Amt: ; (until March 1970)	Slagelse Herred ; Sorø Office
Coordinates :	55 ° 26 ' N , 11 ° 23' E Coordinates: 55 ° 26 ' N , 11 ° 23' E
Population : ; (2020)	98
Postal code :	4200 Slagelse
	; Location of Gudum Sogn in the Slagelse municipality

Gudum Sogn is a parish municipality ( Danish : Sogn ) on the island of Sjælland in southern Denmark . Until 1970 it belonged to Harde Slagelse Herred in what was then Sorø Amt , then to Slagelse Kommune in Vestsjællands Amt , which was merged into the “new” Slagelse Kommune in the Sjælland region on January 1, 2007 as part of the local government reform .

The name "Gudum" means home of gods and comes from the Viking Age .

98 inhabitants live in the parish (as of January 1, 2020). The church "Gudum Kirke" is located in the parish.

Neighboring communities are Sønderup Sogn in the north, Sorterup Sogn in the northeast, Ottestrup Sogn in the southeast and Nørrevang Sogn in the southwest .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Statistics Banks -> Befolkning og valg -> KM1: Befolkningen January 1st, April 1st, July 1st and October 1st, so og folkekirkemedlemsskab (Danish)
↑ Germanic religious history: Sources and source problems Heinrich Beck, Detlev Ellmers, Kurt Schier (ed.) S. 525 and J. Kousgård Sørensen: Gudhem, Frühmedalterliche Studien 19 (1985) S. 131–38: “A special case is the name Gudhem ( Gudhjem, Gudme, Gudum), which occurs several times in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. As J. Kousgård Sørensen has shown convincingly, this name is based on an identical appellative, literally home of the gods ”.