Jegindø

Jegindø ( locally called Jeno ) is a Danish island in the Limfjord, located east of Thyholm, with which it is connected since 1916 by a dam ( Kirkebakken ). Jegindø forms a separate parish municipality (Danish: Sogn ) Jegindø Sogn, which belonged Office for Harde Refs Herred in Thisted to 1970, from 1970 to Thyholm municipality in the former Ringkjøbing office, in the course of municipal reform on 1 January 2007 in Struer municipality has risen in the region Midtjylland.

Landscape

The 7.91 km ² island is about 6 km long and 3 km wide. The landscape consists mainly of grassland with scattered clumps of trees and extensive wet meadows to the sea. Notable elevations there is not, the highest point of the island lies just 13 m above sea level. The northwest of the island is particularly natural, since not had a building due to the low height above sea level here possible.

Originally, today's island of two smaller ones which were separated by a Sound. Later this was dry like in the context of land uplift and is still deep-seated in a row and marshy meadows to detect. While particularly strong storm surges of the sea divides the island still in their original halves.

The strait between Thyholm and Jegindø is called Tambosund. Before the construction of the dam there was only one ferry. The Fährrecht at the time was the host of the inn of the village Tambohuse located on Thyholm.

Population

The 464 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013) of the island spread over several small villages and scattered farms. Larger towns are among other Jegindø, Kirkeby, Ibstedt and the popular holiday and resort Bohl, which is located in the north of the island. Good swimming beaches are also in the south of the island, where it terminates in a narrow tongue of land, the so-called pin or Jegind Tap. In addition Jegindø has a school, a church and a small fishing port and marina with the fishing museum Æ Fywerhus.