- Værløse
Værløse was a municipality (Danish, "kommune") consisting of only "one"
parish also named Værløse in the former Copenhagen County on the island ofZealand ("Sjælland") in easternDenmark . The municipality covered an area of 34 km², and in 2005 had a total population of 18,649. Its last mayor was Jesper Bach, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party.He will be the first mayor of the newly formedFuresø municipality . The community is connected by a road and a motorway and commuter railway toFarum to the north via anisthmus at Fiskebæk between Lake Farum sø and Lake Furesø. The road and motorway run through a small forest on the western shore of Lake Furesø and is almost out of sight and hearing distance from nearby homes in Værløse, but north of the isthmus they run through the town of Farum, separating it in a western and eastern part.The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Værløse. Other towns in the former municipality are
Hareskovby ,Kirke Værløse , andJonstrup .Neighboring municipalities were Farum to the north,
Stenløse to the west,Ballerup andHerlev to the south, andGladsaxe ,Lyngby-Taarbæk andSøllerød to the east, albeit the last of these is separated physically from the municipality by the waters of Lake "Furesø".On
January 1 ,2007 Værløse municipality ceased to exist, as the result of "Kommunalreformen" ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007). It merged with Farum municipality to form the newFuresø municipality . This created a municipality with an area of 57 km² and a total population of 37,311 (2005). The new municipality belongs toRegion Hovedstaden ("Copenhagen Capital Region").Værløse is mentioned in the weather report but sounds almost like "vejrløse", which means "weatherless". This is a well known joke.
See also
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Værløse station External links
* [http://www.vaerloese.dk Municipality's official website]
References
* Municipal statistics: [http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta] , delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)]
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