Sorø Municipality

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Sorø Municipality

| native_name = {{native name|da|Sorø Kommune}}

| settlement_type = Municipality

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Denmark

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = Zealand

| established_title = Established

| established_date = {{#property:P571}}

| seat_type = Seat

| seat = Sorø

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| leader_party = C

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Gert Jørgensen

| unit_pref = Metric

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| area_total_km2 = 311.05

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| population_total = 30478

| population_as_of = 1. January 2024

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Sorø Municipality ({{langx|da|Sorø Kommune}}) is a kommune in the Region Sjælland on the island of Zealand in east Denmark. The municipality covers an area of {{convert|317|km²|0|abbr=on}}, and has a total population of 30,478 (2024).[https://m.statbank.dk/TableInfo/BY2?lang=en BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities] The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Sorø. Other towns in the municipality are Dianalund, Stenlille, and Ruds Vedby.

On 1 January 2007 Sorø municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with existing Dianalund and Stenlille municipalities to form the new Sorø municipality.

Locations

The ten largest urban areas in the municipality are:{{cite web |url=http://www.statistikbanken.dk/BY1 |title=Statistikbanken |author= |website=Danmarks Statistik |access-date=2015-12-22 }}

class="wikitable" ! # !! Locality !! Population (2015)
1	Sorø	7,754
2	Dianalund	4,003
3	Frederiksberg	3,461
4	Stenlille	2,073
5	Ruds Vedby	1,716
6	Fjenneslev	795
7	Nyrup	422
8	Munke Bjergby	315
9	Vedde	302
10	Tersløse	250

=The city of Sorø =

The city of Sorø has a population of 7,754 (2015) and is the site of both the municipal council and the county council. It was scheduled to be regional seat for Region Sjælland, one of the five new regions to be implantated in Denmark 1 January 2007.

While by no means the biggest city in Denmark, it has great historical value. It was founded in 1161 by Bishop Absalon, later the founder of Copenhagen, and is the site of Sorø Academy (Danish Sorø Akademi) and Sorø Klosterkirke, the church where Absalon is buried, along with other notable Danes, including royalty. Queen Margaret I of Denmark was buried at this church until moved to Roskilde Cathedral in Roskilde.

Politics

=Municipal council=

Sorø's municipal council consists of 25 members, elected every four years.

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

class="wikitable"

! rowspan="2"| Election

! colspan="10"| 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:#C9096C;"|Socialist People's Party (Denmark)

|style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Borgerlisten|{{font color|white|J}}}}

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

|style="background:#8B8989;"|{{tooltip|2=Den Uafhængige Liste|{{font color|white|U}}}}

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

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

|style="background:#00FF00;"|The Alternative (Denmark)

2005

|12

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

|5

|1

|4

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

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="3"|

|rowspan="4"|25

|72.4%

|rowspan="2"|Ivan Hansen (A)

2009

|11

|5

|3

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="3"|

|2

|style="background:#CDC9C9;" rowspan="3"|

|4

|68.2%

2013

|8

|1

|6

|1

|3

|5

|1

|74.7%

|rowspan="2"|Gert Jørgensen (C)

2017

|8

|1

|7

|1

|3

|1

|72.3%

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]

Image gallery

Image:Sorø Academy (Denmark).JPG|Sorø Academy

Image:Scavenius Stiftelse.JPG|Central Sorø

Image:Sorø - parkland.jpg|The shore of the lake

Image:Ruds Vedby - Vedbygaard1.JPG|Vedbygård

References

Municipal statistics: [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812152043/http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta], delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD a.k.a. Kommunedata (Municipal Data)]
Municipal mergers and neighbors: [https://web.archive.org/web/20071011050224/http://kommune.eniro.dk/danmarkskort/ Eniro new municipalities map]

External links

{{Official website|http://www.soroe.dk/}}
[http://www.turismesyd.dk/ East Denmark tourism information]

{{Geographic location

| Centre = Sorø

| N = Holbæk

| E = Ringsted

| S = Næstved

| SW = Slagelse

| NW = Kalundborg

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Category:Municipalities of Region Zealand

Category:Municipalities of Denmark

Category:Populated places established in 2007