Silkeborg
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Silkeborg is a city in the middle of the Danish Region Midtjylland. In Silkeborg is the administrative headquarters of Silkeborg Kommune, which was formed after the municipal reform of 2007 from the existing municipalities Gjern, Kjellerup, Silkeborg and Them.
Geography
Silkeborg is located about 40 km west of Aarhus and just 35 km south of Viborg on the railway line between Herning and Skanderborg. The city lies on both sides of the Silkeborg Langsø, this is the longest river in Denmark, the Guden, drained. Approximately 11 km west of Silkeborg Toteisloch the Bølling Sø, the hill Himmelbjerg is about 12 km south-east.
History
First traces of settlement in Silkeborg can be dated to about 1200. Around 1400, a convent and a headquarters for the bishops in Aarhus was built in Silkeborg. Until 1662, the original county Silkeborg Len was under the management of Castle Silkeborg ( Silkeborg slot), then under the administration of Silkeborg office. In the structural reform in 1793, the county was divided between other communities.
1844 was the entrepreneur Michael Drewsen permission to build a paper factory in Silkeborg. Due to the economic boom Silkeborg 1846 received the status of a market place and on January 1, 1900, the city rights. The church was completed in 1877.
Policy
Jens Erik Jørgensen from the conservative People's Party is currently mayor of Silkeborg. He solved Jørn Würtz from the Socialist People's Party in 2002.
Silkeborg is twinned with Kaiserslautern ( Germany ), Savonlinna ( Finland), Árborg ( Iceland ), Arendal (Norway ), Giżycko (Poland ), Kalmar (Sweden) and Corona ( USA).
Culture and sights
Museums
Silkeborg Museum is among other things the Tollundmanden, a bog body from the 3rd or 4th century BC, which was found in 1950 near Silkeborg peat cutting.
In the area of the former spa center Silkeborg Bad, the Bunker Museum are with bunkers from the Second World War.
The grown in Silkeborg painter and ceramic artist Asger Jorn dedicated a museum.
Housed in the former paper mill paper museum gives visitors the art of historical papermaking closer.
The historical Hjejlen
View of the city with Silkeborg Church
Silkeborg Hovedgård
Regular events
In June, the annual Riverboat Jazz Festival is performed. Another musical event, the Country Music Festival, offers every second weekend of August, a large open -air concert with country music.
Every last weekend of August in Silkeborg and around the AUTOMANIA, Silkeborg car festival, held.
Economy and infrastructure
Significant industries are the paper ( historically ) and machine industries. Jyske Bank in Silkeborg their headquarters.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Johannes Fibiger (1867-1928), pathologist
- Lau Lauritzen senior (1878-1938), director and screenwriter
- Asger Jorn (1914-1973), artist
- Søs Egelind (born 1958 ), actress, director and comedian
- Jesper Asholt (* 1960), actor
- Maibritt Saerens (born 1970 ), actress
- Thomas Bjørn (born 1971 ), professional golfer
- Eskild Ebbesen (born 1972 ), rower
- Mick Øgendahl (born 1973 ), stand-up comedian
- Simon Kvamm ( born 1975 ), rock singer of the group Nephew
- Mani Spinx ( born 1975 ), musician
- Michael Reihs ( b. 1979 ), cyclist
- Lars Bak Ytting ( b. 1980 ), cyclist
- Annika Langvad ( born 1984 ), cyclist
- Bobach Ida (* 1991), orienteer