Thurø
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| Waters | Baltic Sea | |
| Archipelago | Danish South Seas | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 2 ′ 40 ″ N , 10 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| surface | 7.53 km² | |
| Residents | 3545 (January 1, 2020) 471 inhabitants / km² |
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| main place | Thurø By | |
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Thurø is a Danish island in the " Danish South Seas " southeast of Svendborg and east of Tåsinge . The island forms its own parish ( Danish : Sogn ) Thurø Sogn and has been part of Svendborg Municipality in the Syddanmark region since the 2007 municipal reform .
Until 1970 she belonged to Sunds Herred in Svendborg Amt , from 1970 to 2006 to Svendborg Municipality in Fyns Amt .
The island has an area of 7.53 km² and 3545 inhabitants (January 1, 2020). It is Denmark's second most densely populated island (after Amager ).
Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel lived on Thurø during their exile: the writer Karin Michaëlis had a wooden house built for them next to their house in Birkeallé. Even Walter Benjamin was among the guests here.
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Since February 1, 1934, the island has been accessed by a bridge to Fyn. Before that there was a ferry connection with the electric ferry Thurø .
Persons connected to the island
- Jørgen Peder Hansen (* 1923 on Thurø; † 1994), politician
- Jan Pytlick (* 1967 in Thurø), handball coach
- Christian Holst (* 1981), soccer player, played in Thurø's youth team
literature
- TM Michelsen: Thurø i Fortid and Nutid. Historiske and statistics Oplysninger from Øen Thurø. Samlet efter trykte and utrykte Kilder i Anledning af Hundredeaarsfesten for Øens transition to Selveje. Svendborg, Henrik Klindt, 1910.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b statistics banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BEF4: Folketal pr. January 1st demands på øer (Danish).
- ↑ Danmarks Statistics : Statistical Yearbook 2009, Table 3: Area and population. Regions and inhabited islands (English; PDF; 39 kB)
- ↑ AJ Ullidtz: FAST VEJFORBINDELSE FYN-THURO. (PDF) In: DANSK VEJTIDSSKRIFT. 1934, p. No. 2/143 , accessed on February 13, 2017 (Danish).