Rings (Denmark)

Rings
Help on coat of arms Rings
Basic data
State :	Denmark
Region :	Syddanmark
Municipality (since 2007) :	Faaborg-Midtfyn
Coordinates :	55 ° 14 ′  N , 10 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 14 ′  N , 10 ° 29 ′  E
Founded:	around 1700
Population : (2020)	6,179
Postal code :	5750 rings
The church in rings

Rings is a city on the Danish island of Funen . It has belonged to the Faaborg-Midtfyn municipality since the 2007 municipal reform . Before that, rings was the capital of the rings commune . The place is about 22 kilometers north of Svendborg and about 20 kilometers south of Odense .

The Midtfyns Festival was held in the small town from 1976 to 2003 . In its heyday in the 1980s, the festival was one of the largest festivals in Northern Europe.

Sons of the city

• Erik Eriksen (1902–1972), Prime Minister
• Palle Lykke (1936–2013), cyclist
• Egon Madsen (* 1942), ballet dancer and ballet master
• Niclas Kirkeløkke (* 1994), handball player

photos

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  Rings station

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  Rings Museum

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)

Web links

Commons : Rings (Midtfyn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files