Hedensted Municipality

Map of the future municipality

Hedensted Kommune is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. Its seat and main town is Hedensted.

Overview

The municipality covers an area of 551.36 km² and has a total population of 45,788 (1 April 2014). Its mayor is Kirsten Terkilsen, a member of the liberal party Venstre. The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Hedensted.

The municipality is also a part of the East Jutland metropolitan area with 1,2 mio. inhabitants. .

On January 1, 2007, as a result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), the former Juelsminde municipality and most of Tørring-Uldum municipality was merged into Hedensted municipality.

External links

• Municipality's official website

References

• Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
• Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map