Lundtoft Commune

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Structural data
surface 137.15 km² (2005)
Residents 6,184 (2005)
Homepage http://www.lundtoft.dk/

Lundtoft Kommune was a municipality in Sønderjyllands Amt ( North Schleswig ), Denmark . It was created during the municipal reform in 1970 by amalgamating the rural communities ( Danish : Sogn ) Kliplev , Felsted and Varnæs . On January 1, 2007 it was dissolved and part of the Aabenraa municipality .

history

In the Middle Ages, Kliplev and Felsted (but not Varnæs, see its own story in the main article Varnæs ) were part of a harde in the Duchy of Schleswig , which in 1231 was named Kliplevharde in King Waldemar II's earth book , but was soon named after the small town of Lundtoft in the Kliplev parish . Kliplev's church was an important place of pilgrimage. The center of the Harde was Søgård Castle (Seegard). However, this came into aristocratic possession in the 14th century. Almost the entire Harde from then on belonged to an estate complex, which until 1722 was to be the largest in all of Schleswig. The lordly remnants of the Lundtoftharde were subordinated to the Tønder Office despite the geographical distance, although the lordly castles at Flensburg , Aabenraa and Sønderborg were much closer.

It was not until 1850 that the Lundtoftharde was rebuilt as a closed district, to which the last goods were incorporated three years later. At the same time she came to the office of Aabenraa, which after the conquest of Schleswig by Prussia was allowed to continue as a district within unchanged boundaries. In 1871 all of Schleswig-Holstein was divided into small rural communities. The incorporation of North Schleswig into Denmark in 1920 led to the establishment of parish communities. In 1970 the municipality of Lundtoft came into being rather out of embarrassment due to a lack of unity among neighboring communities. Because of its strange shape, it is also mocked in Denmark as a banana commune. There is only a very narrow geographical connection between the municipalities of Kliplev and Felsted in the now insignificant village of Lundtoft, while Varnæs appears as an eastern appendage to Felsted. Due to its location and tradition as an old Hardes center, the unevenly shaped municipality was named after Lundtoft, but the town hall came after Felsted.

Economy and Transport

The E 45 motorway runs past Kliplev and has a junction here on the important east-west road Tinglev - Sønderborg . The Flensburg - Aabenraa road runs through Lundtoft and Søgård .

The railway from Tinglev to Sønderborg is only single-track, but electrified and offers, among other things, direct intercity connections every two hours to Odense and Copenhagen . While the train station in Kliplev is well connected, the stations in Behrendorf and Lundtoft have been idle since 1974. The Apenrader Kreisbahn , which connected the two eastern municipalities, no longer exists since 1926.

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