Tønder Municipality
Tønder Municipality
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 Coat of arms | |
 Location in Denmark | |
| Coordinates: 54°56′00″N 8°54′00″E / 54.933333333333°N 8.9°E | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Region | Southern Denmark |
| Established | 1 January 2007 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Jørgen Popp Petersen |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,252 km2 (483 sq mi) |
| Population (1. January 2024)[1] | |
| • Total | 36,651 |
| • Density | 29/km2 (76/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Website | www |
Tønder Municipality (Danish: Tønder Kommune, German: Kommune Tondern, North Frisian: Tuner Komuun) is a kommune in the Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,252 km2, and has a total population of 36,651 (2024). Its mayor is Jørgen Popp Petersen, a member of the regional Schleswig Party.[2]
The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Tønder. It consists of six old municipalities, the former Tønder municipality (1970-2006) with 12,706 inhabitants in January 2000 on 184.59 square kilometers among them.
Subdivision[edit]
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
Locations[edit]
| Tønder | 7,500 |
| Løgumkloster | 3,500 |
| Toftlund | 3,200 |
| Skærbæk | 3,100 |
| Bredebro | 1,400 |
| Agerskov | 1,200 |
| Højer | 1,100 |
| Møgeltønder | 800 |
| Abild | 500 |
| Øster Højst | 500 |
| Bedsted | 450 |
| Jejsing | 450 |
| Brøns | 400 |
| Visby | 350 |
| Døstrup | 350 |
| Arrild | 300 |
| Husum-Ballum | 300 |
| Branderup | 270 |
| Havneby | 270 |
| Rejsby | 270 |
History[edit]
On 1 January 2007, Tønder municipality was enlarged as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007) when the Bredebro, Højer, Løgumkloster, Nørre-Rangstrup (without Bevtoft Parish), and Skærbæk municipalities were merged into the new Tønder municipality.
Politics[edit]
Tønder's municipal council consists of 31 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has nine political committees.[3]
Municipal council[edit]
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||||
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| A | C | D | F | I | K | L | O | S | T | V | Ø | ||||
| 2005 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 31 | 73.0% | Vagn Terkel Pedersen (V) | |||||
| 2009 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 68.1% | Laurids Rudebeck (V) | |||||||
| 2013 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 73.3% | ||||||
| 2017 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 72.0% | Henrik Frandsen (V) | ||||
| 2021 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 69.8% | Jørgen Popp Petersen (S) | |||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 | |||||||||||||||
North Schleswig Germans[edit]
Tønder Municipality is home to the only officially recognised ethno-linguistic minority of Denmark proper, the North Schleswig Germans. This minority makes up about 6% of the total population of the municipalities of Aabenraa/Apenrade, Haderslev/Hadersleben, Sønderborg/Sonderburg and Tønder/Tondern. In these four municipalities, the German minority enjoys certain linguistic rights in accordance with the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
References[edit]
- ^ BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- ^ "Medlemmer af kommunalbestyrelsen". Tønder Kommune (in Danish). Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- ^ "Politiske udvalg". Tønder Kommune (in Danish). Retrieved 10 September 2023.
- Municipal statistics: Danmarks Statistik kommunefakta, delivered from DST.dk
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
External links[edit]
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