Kalundborg

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The port city of Kalundborg [ kalonbɔ ː ʔʀ ] in the Danish Region Sjælland ( Zealand ) located on the eponymous Kalundborg Fjord, in the north of the Great Belt. The city is home to a radio station and end point of a line from Roskilde. In addition, among other things, the oil industry is concentrated with refineries in Kalundborg. The city is the ferry terminal to Aarhus and Samsø and is located at the beginning of the peninsulas Asnæs and Røsnæs. The Asnæsværket is one of the largest producers of electricity in the country. In the city, a local newspaper is established, Kalundborg Folkeblad.

The castle, from which arose the city, was founded in 1170 by Esbern Snare, the brother of Archbishop Absalon of Lund. The Kirke Vor Frue to have been started and are provided as a grave church family already 1160.

Development of the population of the municipality (January 1 ):

Since the municipal reform on 1 January 2007, the municipality consists of the former municipalities Bjergsted, Gørlev, Hvidebæk, Høng and Kalundborg. The new municipality covers an area of 604 km ².

Structures

  • Before Frue Kirke ( Church of Our Lady ), Romanesque, fünftürmiger central building of brick, which is not only in the north without stone parallels and therefore an architectural monument of the first order is. 1827 collapses of the central tower and was manufactured 1867-1871 again.
  • Some old half-timbered houses, especially near the church
  • The two transmission towers for broadcasts on longwave 243 kHz of transmitter Kalundborg

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johan Thomas Lundbye, Danish painter
  • Mark Pedersen (* 1989), Danish cyclist
  • Sigrid Undset, Norwegian novelist, novelist and essayist

Pictures

The Seen Fru Kirke from the Hærvigsgade from

The two 118 -meter-high transmission towers the long wave transmitter Kalundborg

Kalundborg Municipality Lądek, Słupca County Kalundborg Transmitter Church of Our Lady, Kalundborg Johan Lundbye
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