Rejsby Sogn

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Reisby (Denmark)
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Basic data
State : DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Region : Syddanmark
Municipality
(since 2007) :
Tønder
Coordinates : 55 ° 14 '  N , 8 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 14 '  N , 8 ° 43'  E
Population :
(2020)
361
Area : 18.3 km²
Population density : 20 inhabitants per km²
Height : 12 m ö.h.
Postal code : 6780 Skærbæk
Location of the parish
Location of the parish

Rejsby Sogn (German Reisby ) is a parish municipality ( Danish : Sogn ) in North Schleswig in southwest Denmark . Until 1970 it belonged to Harde Hviding Herred in what was then Tønder Amt , then to Skærbæk Kommune in what was then Sønderjyllands Amt , which was merged into the "new" Tønder Kommune in the Syddanmark region as part of the municipal reform on January 1, 2007 .

Municipal area

Rejsby is a good 10 km south of Ribe (German: Ripen ) and 53 km north of Tønder (German: Tondern ) on the North Sea . The community has an area of ​​18.3 km² with a decreasing tendency 361 inhabitants, 268 of them in the church village Rejsby (as of January 1, 2020).

In addition to the Kirchdorf only Kærbølling which lies close to the south (dt .: form Kjerbölling ) and is located along the eastern edge of the municipality haved (dt .: Hawitt ) significant settlement centers. Close to the latter is the highest point of the very flat marshland and Geest community, at just 12 m above sea level .

In the west lies the North Sea, in the north Hviding Sogn , in the east Roager Sogn (dt. Roagger ) and Vodder Sogn (dt. Wodder ) and in the south Brøns Sogn .

history

In the Middle Ages, the area belonged to the Hviding harde des Törninglehn and with this part of the Hadersleben office since 1524 at the latest . But several ecclesiastical institutions had possessions here, including the Lügum monastery and the cathedral chapter and bishop of Ripen. The latter belonged to the kingdom, the rest of the parish to the Duchy of Schleswig .

In 1864 the entire community became Prussian and from then on formed a unified rural community in the Hadersleben district. In 1920 almost all of the 325 participants in the referendum voted in favor of joining Denmark. Reisby remained a unified community, which, however, now belonged to the Tondern office .

Economy and Infrastructure

Reisby is on the Green Coast Road , here marked as A 11. There is also a stop on the march railway from Tondern to Esbjerg east of Hauptstraße and Kirchdorf .

Education and culture

The best- known institution in the municipality is the after-school, Rejsby Europæiske Efterskole .

Attractions

The Romanesque church of St. Laurentius has a lead roof , the nave was partly built from Rhenish tuff .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. a b Statistics Banks -> Befolkning og valg -> KM1: Befolkningen January 1st, April 1st, July 1st and October 1st, so og folkekirkemedlemsskab (Danish)
  2. Statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)