Grenå

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Grenaa (also Grenå ) is a port city on the Kattegat on the Djursland in Jutland, Denmark. The city is the geographical center of Denmark. In the town center today live 14,454 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013).

The town was beginning to 2006 with the municipality Grenaa an independent municipality in Århus Amt. The municipality covered an area of 196 square kilometers and had 18,641 inhabitants ( 2004). With the local government reform (Danish municipal reform ), which entered into force on 1 January 2007, the municipalities Grenaa, Nørre Djurs and Rougsø grouped together for new Norddjurs municipality. The new municipality has an area of ​​661 square kilometers and a population of 38 035 (as of 1 January 2013).

History

Grenaa already received city rights in 1445. It was to the Middle Ages to the Baltic Sea and the now silted Kolindsund, who was the second largest lake in the country.

Culture and sights

In a half-timbered house in the Søndergade 1 of 1760 a department of the Museum of East Jutland (until 2010 Djurslands Museum ) and the Danish Fisheries Museum ( Dansk Fiskerimuseum ) is housed.

The Thorsø Hoje (Eng. Thor Lake Hills) are grave hills, they lie 7.2 kilometers north-west of Grenaa, in the triangle between the villages Dalstrup Thorsø and Villersø.

Business and resident companies

With Fornæs Skibsophug the city has one of the world's market leader in the dismantling of ships.

About 15 miles off the coast is currently under construction offshore wind farm Anholt, whose home port is Grenaa.

Traffic

Grenaa station is the eastern terminus of the Grenaabanen. There are ferry connections to Anholt and to Varberg in Sweden.

Flow through the city

Marina

Vinter kite -surfing

Personalities

• Sören pot, a member of the rescue; it was placed at the church a monument.
• Hermann Worchester lived until his death in 1935 as a German exile in Grenaa.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Hans Broge, merchant and shipowner
• Hans -Henrik Ørsted, cyclists
• Schack August Steenberg Krogh, physician, and zoologist