Ringkøbing
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Ringkøbing is a small town in Denmark and the administrative seat of Ringkøbing -Skjern. Ringkøbing is Ringkøbing Fjord near the North Sea coast. The town has 9718 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2013) and covers an area of 400.9 km ². Until the administrative reform in 2007, she was both the seat of the municipality and the Ringkøbing Amtskommune Ringkjøbing.
Archaeological finds suggest that the city was built in the 13th century. At that time Ringkøbing was due to its location at the same fjord in the only real harbor on the Danish North Sea coast, as the Limfjord was still separated from the sea.
Since the 17th century, however, the entrance wandered into the Ringkøbing Fjord by wind and ocean currents to the south and the city lost its importance as a port. Only with the creation of the channel of Hvide Sande, the connection is made to the open sea again.
In the center of Ringkøbing you will find a lovely old streets, which mainly result from the market place towards the water.
Worth seeing are the Ringkøbing -Skjern Museum and the church of the 14th century, the tower is wider at the top than the bottom, with an altarpiece by artist Arne Haugen Sørensen, and only partially preserved organ from the 17th century.
In the 2nd World War, the town was surrounded by a anti-tank ditch, and tank traps. In addition, concrete piles were around the place dug with iron spikes on the fields to prevent enemy aircraft from landing, and throughout the city as the bunkers were built. It should thus an Allied invasion in the area Søndervig, are in interaction with the Sønderviger fortifications prevented.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Claus Møller Jakobsen (born 1976 ), handball players
- Kristian Kolby (born 1978 ), race car driver