Hørsholm Municipality

	Hørsholm Municipality
Basic data
State :	Denmark
Region :	Hovedstaden
Region :	North Sealand
Educated:	1970
Office (until the end of 2006) :	Frederiksborg Office
Harde : ; (until March 1970)	Lynge-Kronborg Herred
Residents :	24,864 (2020)
Area :	31.30 km² (2014)
Population density :	794 inhabitants per km²
Municipality number :	223
Administration headquarters:	Hørsholm
Address:	Ådalsparkvej 2 ; 2970 Hørsholm
Mayor:	Morten Slotved ; ( Det Conservative Folk Party )
Website:	www.horsholm.dk
Sister cities :	Oulainen

Hørsholm Church

The former town hall of Hørsholm (completed in 1918), which used to be the post office and the council offices.

Hørsholm Mølle was built in the historic town center in 1890/91 and was in operation until the 1940s. In 1977 the mill was acquired by the municipality and now houses a small craft museum.

Hørsholm Kommune [ ˈhœʀshɔlʔm ] is a Danish municipality in the Hovedstaden region . The administrative seat is in the town of the same name, Hørsholm , whose settlement area now extends into the municipalities of Fredensborg and Rudersdal .

The municipality on the Øresund is accessed both by the railway line from Copenhagen to Helsingør and by the almost parallel motorway . The municipality extends over an area of 31.30 km², on which 24,864 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020) live.

Parish communities and localities in the municipality

The following parish communities ( Danish : Sogn ) and localities with over 200 inhabitants ( byer according to the definition of the Danish statistical office ) are located in the municipality , with a registered population of zero the place had more than 200 inhabitants in the past:

Parish	Residents	Locality	Residents
Blovstrød Sogn	3,698	Hørsholm	24,341
Hørsholm Sogn	12,312
Kokkedal Sogn	5,704
Rungsted Sogn	6,422	Trørød ^(a)	January 1, 2009: 00. 194

^(a)The suburb of Trørød , the largest part of the settlement area is in the Rudersdal municipality , was statistically combined with the town of Hørsholm on January 1st, 2010 . This means that the town of Hørsholm extends beyond the commune of the same name as well as the Rudersdal commune and the Fredensborg commune .

population

Development of the population (January 1st) :

1980 - 21,585
1985 - 22,390
1990-23,176
1995 - 23,377
1999 - 23,469
2000 - 23,648
2003 - 24,208
2005 - 24,292
2010 - 24,378
2020 - 24,864

economy

VKR-Holding A / S, with the Velux brand , is based in Hørsholm.

Hirschholm Castle

The place already had a small castle in the 15th century, which King Christian VI. inherited from his mother Louise zu Mecklenburg in 1721 . He and his wife Sophie Magdalene von Brandenburg-Kulmbach had it expanded and rebuilt and moved into the new Hirschholm Palace ( Danish: Hirschholm Slot ) in 1739.

After Sophie Magdalene's death (1770), her grandson, Christian VII. Lived there from 1770 to 1771 with his wife Caroline Mathilde and her German personal physician Johann Friedrich Struensee . After the birth of Louise Auguste of Denmark , the departure of the royal couple and the Struensee affair , the castle was no longer inhabited and was demolished in 1810.

Town twinning

Hørsholm maintains a city partnership with Oulainen in Finland .

Daughters and sons

Louise Auguste of Denmark (* 1771, † 1843), daughter of Christian VII of Denmark and his wife Caroline Mathilde of Great Britain
Holger Werfel Scheuermann (* 1877; † 1960), orthopedist and radiologist
Louise Hansen (* 1975), soccer player
Kristine Roug (* 1975), sailor, Olympic champion and world champion
Peter Løvenkrands (* 1980), football player
Morten Green (born 1981), ice hockey player
Lotte Friis (* 1988), swimmer