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Neck is a fleckensähnliche village in Vendsyssel in Denmark. In the village live 2495 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013). Neck is located about 31 kilometers east of Aalborg and about 7 km south of Hou.

Neck lies on the eastern entrance of the Limfjord, which is crossed there since 1961 by a ferry to Egense. The place lives in large part by tourism. Noteworthy is the fortress of neck with four bastions and peripheral trenches. Before the trenches are ravelins and the associated Glacis.

Neck community

The city rights were granted neck in 1656, after a year, the customs office in the Limfjord to Aalborg had been relocated to the neck before. The offices were in operation until 1911.

Neck was from 1970 until the municipal reform on 1 January 2007 the center of the homonymous municipality in the north Amt with 11,448 inhabitants ( 2005) and an area of ​​190.70 km ². Since early 2007, the neck is part of Aalborg Municipality.

The last mayor before the municipal reform was Bent Sørensen of the Social Democratic Party of Denmark.

Gallery

The neck Egense ferry

The Church in neck

Wind Harp at the harbor Hou