Løgumkloster

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Løgumkloster (German: Lügumkloster; both mean 'Løgum monastery'), is a town in Tønder municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark with a population of 3,629 (1 January 2013).[1] Its name testifies that the town was once the site of the Cistercian Løgum Abbey, in the then Roman Catholic diocese of Ribe.

Logumkloster was the municipal seat of the now abolished Løgumkloster Municipality.


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  1. BEF44: Population 1st January, by urban areas database from Statistics Denmark

Coordinates: 55°03′N 8°57′E / 55.050°N 8.950°E / 55.050; 8.950

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