Vejen
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 Denmark
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| Region : | Syddanmark | ||||
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Municipality (since 2007) : |
Vejen | ||||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 29 ′ N , 9 ° 8 ′ E | ||||
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Population : (2020) |
9,853 | ||||
| Postal code : | 6600 Vejen | ||||
| Website: | www.vejenkom.dk | ||||
 The town hall in Vejen |
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Vejen is a place in southwest Jutland ( Denmark ). It is the administrative seat of the municipality of Vejen (42,742 inhabitants, as of January 1, 2020).
The historical trade and travel route Ochsenweg runs through the town. Vejen lies north of the Königsau and was a Danish border town from 1864 to 1920. With the construction of the railway in 1874, Vejen really took off.
Vejens Art Museum
Vejens Kunstmuseum has a collection of paintings with works by LA Ring, Vilhelm Hammershøi , Sigurd Swane , Olaf Rude, Jens Søndergaard, Asger Jorn and others.
The main focus, however, is the work of the sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen . Other sculptures by him have been placed in public space: The fountain in front of the museum is adorned with his bronze sculpture En Trold, the vejrer Kristenkød (German: "A troll that smells Christian flesh") from 1896. The copy was installed in Vejen in 1923 and has been the since then Landmark of the town; the original is in the garden of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen ; A second copy was set up in 2002 at the original location in front of the Jesus Church in Copenhagen- Valby .
More Attractions
13 km north of the Klebæk Høje burial mound with a large stone setting and a little south of it a rune stone in front of the church in Bække. There is also a rune stone at Læborg Church (6 km north of Vejen).
Twin cities
Up until October 2010 there were town twinning agreements with the German communities Wedel and Garbsen as well as Brodnica in Poland , which Vejen ended as a result of the Danish municipal reform.
Personalities who have worked on site
- Niels Hansen Jacobsen (1861–1941), sculptor
- Ingrid Vang Nyman (1916–1959), Swedish book illustrator
Web links
- Official website of the town and municipality
- Vejens Kunstmuseum (including a detailed biography of Niels Hansen Jacobsen)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Statistics Banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)
- ↑ Jörg Frenzel: Vejen ends the relationship with Wedel. November 6, 2010, accessed April 21, 2011 .