Tønder
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Tønder (German: Tondern, North Frisian: Tuner) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Syddanmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,278 km², and has a total population of 40,367 (2008). Its mayor is Hans L. Hansen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party.
The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Tønder.
The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform ("Municipal Reform") that merged a number of existing parishes:
- Abild Parish
- Hostrup Parish
- Møgeltønder Parish
- Tønder Parish
- Ubjerg Parish
On January 1, 2007, Tønder municipality was enlarged as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007) when the Bredebro, Højer, Løgumkloster, Nørre-Rangstrup, and Skærbæk municipalities were merged into the new Tønder municipality.
[edit] History
From 1864 it was part of Prussia, and as such part of the North German Confederation, and from 1871 onwards, part of the German Empire. In the 1920 Schleswig Plebiscite that brought Northern Schleswig to Denmark, 76.5 % of Tønder's inhabitants voted for remaining part of Germany and 23.5 % voted for the cession to Denmark. [1]
[edit] Attractions
Every August, the Tønder Festival takes place, offering the visitor a wide variety of traditional and modern folk music.
[edit] References
- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
[edit] External links
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