Halsnæs Municipality

Halsnæs municipality is a Danish municipality in the Capital Region. Covering an area of ​​121.90 km ² there (as of 1 January 2013) live 30 803 inhabitants. The name comes from the Halsnæs Halsnæs peninsula in the western part of the municipality.

The municipality was created in the municipal reform on 1 January 2007 from the merger of three independent municipalities Frederiksværk and Hundested the new Frederiksværk - Hundested municipality. This was renamed on 1 January 2008 in Halsnæs municipality.

Villages in the municipality

The area contains the following parish communities (Danish: Sogn ) and villages with over 200 inhabitants ( byer as defined by the Danish Bureau of Statistics ), with a registered population of zero, the place in the past had more than 200 inhabitants:

A The former municipalities center Frederiksværk now stretches also over the parishes Kregme, Melby and Vinderød.

Development of population figures

• 2007: 30,798
• 2008: 30,824
• 2009: 31 013
• 2010: 31,077

Geography

The Halsnæs municipality covers the western part of the largest inland lake in Denmark, the Arresø, and the 71 acre island Hesselø Skagerrak, about 30 km north- west of Hundested.