Juelsminde Municipality

Until January 1, 2007 Juelsminde municipality was a municipality (Danish, "kommune") in Vejle County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality included the island of Hjarnø, and covered an area of 240 km². It had a total population of 15,555 (2005). Its last mayor was Peter Schmidt Hansen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Juelsminde.

The municipality was located on a headland, and was thus surrounded by water on three sides.

Juelsminde municipality was, as the result of "Kommunalreformen" ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007), merged with Hedensted municipality and most of Tørring-Uldum municipality to form a new Hedensted municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 565 km² and a total population of 56,508 (2005). The new municipality belongs to Region Midtjylland ("Mid-Jutland Region"). A portion of Tørring-Uldum was merged into the new Vejle municipality.

External links

* [http://www.hedensted.dk/ Hedensted municipality's official website] da icon
* [http://www.vejle.dk/ Vejle municipality's official website] da icon

References

* Municipal statistics: [http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta] , delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)]
* Municipal mergers and neighbors: [http://kommune.eniro.dk/region/media/nyekommuner.shtml Eniro new municipalities map]