Frederikssund Municipality

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| leader_name = John Schmidt Andersen (1 January 2014-)

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Frederikssund Kommune ({{IPA|da|fʁeðʁekˈsɔnˀ kʰoˈmuːnə}}) is a municipality ({{langx|da|kommune}}) on the shores of Roskilde Fjord in the northern part of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. On 1 January 2007, the municipality was enlarged to include the old Jægerspris, Slangerup, and Skibby municipalities. It now covers an area of 250 km² and has a population of 46,358 (1. January 2024). As of 1 January 2014 its mayor is John Schmidt Andersen, a member of the agrarian liberal Venstre political party. Frederikssund municipality belongs to Region Hovedstaden (Capital Region).

The seat of its municipal council is the town of Frederikssund with a population of 15,283 (1 January 2009).[http://www.statistikbanken.dk/BEF44 "BEF44: Population 1st January, by urban areas"] database from Statistics Denmark The town is connected to the Hornsherred peninsula by the Kronprins Frederik bridge. The former municipalities of Jægerspris and Skibby are located on this peninsula.

Locations

The ten largest locations in the municipality are:

class="wikitable" ! Nr (#) !! City !! Population (2011)
1	Frederikssund	15,468
2	Slangerup	6,822
3	Jægerspris	4,065
4	Skibby	3,185
5	Græse Bakkeby	2,368
6	Kulhuse	912
7	Skuldelev	905
8	Gerlev	783
9	Store Rørbæk	570
10	Over Dråby Strand	442

Politics

=Municipal council=

Frederikssund's municipal council consists of 23 members, elected every four years.

Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

class="wikitable"

! rowspan="2"| Election

! colspan="8"| Party

! rowspan="2"| Total
seats

! rowspan="2"| Turnout

! rowspan="2"| Elected
mayor

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=Borgernes liste Frederikssund|{{font color|white|E}}}}

|style="background:#C9096C;"|Socialist People's Party (Denmark)

|style="background:#F4D44D;"|Danish People's Party

|style="background:#254C85;"|Venstre (Denmark)

|style="background:#FF0000;"|Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)

2005

|13

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"|

|27

|72.2%

|rowspan="2"|Ole Find Jensen (A)

2009

|10

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="2"|

|rowspan="3"|23

|67.1%

2013

|73.4%

|rowspan="2"|John S. Andersen (V)

2017

|style="background:#CDC9C9;"|

|72.6%

colspan="14"|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] and [https://www.kmdvalg.dk/kv/2017/KMDValgKV.html 2017]

Recent developments

The [https://web.archive.org/web/20061014154610/http://www.sla.dk/byrum/fredsugb.htm new harbour square] provides the finishing touches to the harbour developments which began in the 1990s. There are also ambitious plans to build a new residential development to the south of Frederikssund in Vinge north of Store Rørbæk. Vinge Station on the C line of the S-train was opened 14 December 2020.[http://enhr2006-ljubljana.uirs.si/publish/W20_Hedvig%20Vestergaard.pdf New Town in the Øresund Region - housing potential in the new town next to Frederikssund] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070616061019/http://enhr2006-ljubljana.uirs.si/publish/W20_Hedvig%20Vestergaard.pdf |date=16 June 2007 }} - Paper presented at the ENHR conference, Ljubljana July 2006 Retrieved 9 January 2007.

Twin towns – sister cities

Frederikssund is twinned with:{{cite web|title=Internationale samarbejder|url=https://www.frederikssund.dk/service/Organisation/Fakta/Internationale-samarbejder|website=frederikssund.dk|publisher=Frederikssund Kommune|language=da|accessdate=2021-04-14|archive-date=14 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414182530/https://www.frederikssund.dk/service/Organisation/Fakta/Internationale-samarbejder|url-status=dead}}

{{flagicon|NOR}} Aurskog-Høland, Norway
{{flagicon|ESP}} Catoira, Spain
{{flagicon|POL}} Kowary, Poland
{{flagicon|SWE}} Kumla, Sweden

{{flagicon|ENG}} Ramsgate, England, United Kingdom
{{flagicon|FIN}} Sipoo, Finland
{{flagicon|ENG}} Somerset, England, United Kingdom

Gallery

Minolta-65-02 filtered.jpg|Frederikssund's main pedestrian street

Jægerspris slot.jpg|Jægerspris Castle

Danish sailboats.jpg|Kulhuse

References

External links

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]
[https://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=11&ll=55.797807,12.106247&spn=0.171372,0.63858&om=1 Road map from Google maps]
[http://www.frederikssund.dk/ The new Frederikssund municipality's official website (Danish only)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050901180218/http://www.frederikssund-tourist.dk/DK/index.htm Frederikssund / Hornsherred Tourist Bureau]
[http://www2.frsund-gym.dk/? Frederikssund Gymnasium] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050820162708/http://www.frsund-gym.dk/ |date=20 August 2005 }}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20050403192620/http://www.centerbowl.dk/ Center Bowl]
[http://www.golfonline.dk/klub/frederikssund/ Frederikssund Golf Club] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309075451/http://www.golfonline.dk/klub/frederikssund/ |date=9 March 2005 }}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20110514173755/http://drokov.narod.ru/photos/frederikssund200507/index.htm Photos]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070110221108/http://www.frederikssund-bibliotek.dk/ The local public library (in Danish)]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929001646/http://www.roskildefjord.dk/frederikssund_havn.asp Frederikssund marina (in Danish)]