Allerød Municipality
{{Infobox settlement
| name = Allerød Municipality
| native_name = {{native name|da|Allerød Kommune}}
| settlement_type = Municipality
| image_skyline = AllerødRådhus.jpg
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| image_caption = City hall
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| image_shield = Allerød Kommune shield.png
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| image_map = Map DK Allerød.PNG
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Denmark
| subdivision_type1 = Region
| subdivision_name1 = Hovedstaden
| established_title = Established
| established_date = {{#property:P571}}
| seat_type = Seat
| seat = Lillerød
| government_footnotes =
| leader_party = V
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Karsten Längerich
| unit_pref = Metric
| area_footnotes =
| area_total_km2 = 67.44
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| population_footnotes = [https://m.statbank.dk/TableInfo/BY2?lang=en BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities] The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
| population_total = 26128
| population_as_of = 1 January 2025
| population_density_km2 = auto
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| timezone1 = CET
| utc_offset1 = +1
| timezone1_DST = CEST
| utc_offset1_DST = +2
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| postal_code = {{#property:P281}}
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| area_code = {{#property:P473}}
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Allerød Kommune is a municipality (Danish, kommune) on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 67 km2, and has a population of 26,128 (1 January 2025). Its mayor is Karsten Längerich of the political party
Overview
The main town, Lillerød (often referred to as 'Allerød'), is also the site of the municipal council. Smaller towns inside the municipality are Blovstrød and the towns of Lynge and Uggeløse, which have grown together
Allerød municipality was not merged with other municipalities on 1 January 2007 as part of nationwide Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007).
The warm period after the last ice age (Wisconsin glaciation) is named the Allerød Oscillation after an archaeological site found at Allerød.
In 1797 six Bronze Age lurs was found in Lynge at Brudevælte.
Allerød is part of the Green Cities concept {{Cite web |url=http://www.dogme2000.dk/billeder/Forside/gc_powerpoint_uk-bil.pdf |title=Green Cities concept in english |access-date=26 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719122452/http://www.dogme2000.dk/billeder/Forside/gc_powerpoint_uk-bil.pdf |archive-date=19 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
The zip/postal code for Lillerød is 3450.
Economy
Allerød has a large concentration of technology companies in its industrial zones at the outskirts of the town. These include the hearing aid company Widex, Welltec, a developer of robotic technology for the off-shore industry and Weibel Scientific, a designer and manufacturer of continuous wave doppler radars. Hewlett-Packard's Danish headquarters moved to Allerød in 2004.{{cite web|url=https://www.computerworld.dk/art/123258/hp-indvier-sit-nye-danske-hovedsaede|title=HP indvier sit nye danske hovedsæde|publisher=Computerworld|access-date=5 December 2015}} IBM has a large facility in Blovstrød, just outside Allerød, Widex in Vassingerød.
Other companies headquartered in Allerød are the engineering consultancy NIRAS, drug store and cosmetics chain MATAS, the development company Sjælsø Gruppen and the furniture companies Fritz Hansen and PP-Møbler.
Culture
Mungo Park is a small but very influential theatre, in the town centre.
Sports
The local badminton club, Lillerød BK, has won the Danish Badminton League four times and Europe League three times.
Politics
=Municipal council=
Allerød's municipal council consists of 21 members, elected every four years.
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2"| Election ! colspan="11"| Party ! rowspan="2"| Total ! rowspan="2"| Turnout ! rowspan="2"| Elected |
| style="background:#B5211D;"|Social Democrats (Denmark)
|style="background:#843A93;"|Danish Social Liberal Party |style="background:#89A920;"|Conservative People's Party (Denmark) |style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Det Nye Allerød|{{font color|white|D}}}} |style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Lokallisten i Allerød|{{font color|white|E}}}} |style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Vores Allerød|{{font color|white|E}}}} |style="background:#C9096C;"|Socialist People's Party (Denmark) |style="background:#F4D44D;"|Danish People's Party |style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Blovstrød-Listen|{{font color|white|R}}}} |style="background:#254C85;"|Venstre (Denmark) |style="background:#FF0000;"|Red-Green Alliance (Denmark) |
| 2005
|3 |1 |5 |style="background:#CDC9C9;"| |1 |style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="3"| |3 |style="background:#CDC9C9;"| |2 |6 |style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"| |rowspan="5"|21 |77.8% |Eva Nejstgaard (C) |
| 2009
|3 |1 |4 |2 |1 |4 |1 |1 |4 |76.6% |Erik Lund (C) |
| 2013
|4 |1 |6 |2 |style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="3"| |1 |1 |1 |4 |1 |82.0% |Jørgen Johansen (C) |
| 2017
|5 |1 |5 |style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"| |1 |2 |style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"| |1 |5 |1 |81.1% |rowspan="2"|Karsten Längerich (V) |
| 2021
|4 |1 |7 |style="background:#CDC9C9;"| |2 |style="background:#CDC9C9;"| |6 |1 |78.9% |
| colspan="99"|Data from [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2005/adk.htm Kmdvalg.dk 2005], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2009/adk.htm 2009], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2013/Default.htm 2013], [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2017/KMDValgKV.html 2017] and [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2021/K84982201.htm 2021] |
Locations
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
- Municipal statistics: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812152043/http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta], delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)]
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011050224/http://kommune.eniro.dk/danmarkskort/ Eniro new municipalities map]
External links
{{Commons category}}
- [http://www.alleroedkommune.dk Municipality's official website]
- [http://www.per-olof.dk/lur/lurs.htm The Brudevaelte lurs].
{{Geographic location
| Centre = Allerød
| N = Hillerød
| NE = Fredensborg
| E = Hørsholm
| SE = Rudersdal
| S = Furesø
| SW = Egedal
| W = Frederikssund
}}
{{Municipalities of Denmark}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
{{Authority control}}
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