Helsinge, Denmark

Helsinge, Denmark

Helsinge is a main town in Gribskov municipality in Region Hovedstaden on Zealand in Denmark. It has barely 10,000 inhabitants.

The town was years ago elected the ugliest town in Denmark by a journalist from national televisionfact|date=April 2007, Peter Olesen, which is why among its inhabitants it have the popular name "Hæslinge" ("Hæslig"=ugly). Recently a great wall was build as a kind of town portal, but that has got the nickname the Berlin Wall, because it divides the space in an unfortunate way.

In early 19th century the city of was as small as the surrounding villages, but it had an inn and a church and the vicar had another parish under him, Valby. Through the 19th century Helsinge grew. In 1840 23% of the 1258 inhabitants in the parish lived in the city, but in 1901 the percentage was 43% of 1647. In the meantime the town had got among other things both a judge (1848), a doctor (1859), a post office (1863), telegraphy (1872) and a railroad (1897).

ources

* Ethelberg, Hans. "En landsby i vækst". Helsinge Lokalhistoriske Arkiv, 2001. ISBN 87-988681-0-1


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