Århus V

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Århus Vest (lit. English, "Aarhus West") or just Århus V is a district in the city of Aarhus , consisting of Hasle, Herredsvang, Fuglebakken, Frydenlund, and Møllevangen.

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[edit] Quarters and neighborhoods

[edit] Herredsvang

There is around 5000 inhabitans in Herredsvang where 50% is from a other country than Denmark. The area is consisting of mainly apartments, but also houses.

[edit] Frydenlund

Frydenlund is a area mainly consisting of the characteristic high rise concrete apartments from the 1960s and 70s constructed of large, prefabricated concrete slabs. The apartment buildings is standing with big spaces, which use to be big grass areas, but after critic of these boring looks, the spaces had a re-make, with more flowers and trees. Becouse of the gray cement buildings, the area have a rough look.

[edit] Hasle

Hasle is with its 21.700 inhabitants the way biggest part of Århus V and is divided up in Hasle Vest and Gamle Hasle (lit. English, "Old Hasle").

Hasle Vest is located west of the main road Viborgvej and was developed in 1954 and build in the 1960s. The area consist of suburb houses and a big park in the midle of the area and in the norhteren part the characteristic high rise concrete apartments as a part of Public housing programs or projects. The area ends east of the Ring Road, because when the area was being planned there was an unknowing about where the planned Jutland-Interstate E45 was going to be build.

Gamle Hasle (lit. English, "Old Hasle") is to the further east and south whitch is consisting of houses and some few appartments. The areas center is Hasle Torv, which is a square in the very bussy junction, Viborgvej-Ryhavevej.

[edit] Music

Several musicians is from Århus V, most famous is maybe the danish rappers L.O.C. (Liam O'Connor,) and U$O, the creaters of the group B.A.N.G.E.R.S. Also other groups started in Århus V, like the group Haven Morgan with the two rappers Kajser A and Ham Den Lange.

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