Skærbæk Municipality
Skærbæk Municipality was a municipality in Southern Jutland. It covered an area of 360 square kilometres (140 sq mi) and had a total population of 7,294 (2005).
The municipal seat was the town of Skærbæk.
The municipality included the island of Rømø, the southernmost of Denmark's part of the North Frisian Islands. The island, which lies in the Wadden Sea about 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) from the mainland, is a popular beach area in the summer, and is linked to the mainland by a road— Rømøvej— running across a causeway. There is ferry service from the harbour on Rømø to another popular summer island, the German island of Sylt, less than 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south of Rømø.
The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing parishes:
- Brøns Parish
- Døstrup Parish
- Mjolden Parish
- Rejsby Parish
- Rømø Parish
- Skærbæk Parish
- Vodder Parish
On January 1, 2007, Skærbæk Municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Bredebro, Højer, Løgumkloster, Nørre-Rangstrup, and Tønder municipalities to form the new Tønder Municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 1,352 square kilometres (522 sq mi) and a total population of 42,645 (2005).
Notable people
- Jeppe Prætorius (1745 in Skærbæk – 1823) a Danish merchant and shipowner.
- Jannik Petersen Bjerrum (1851 in Skærbæk – 1920) a Danish ophthalmologist
- Kirstine Meyer (1861 in Skærbæk – 1941) a Danish physicist
- Kenneth Fabricius (born 1981 in Skærbæk) a Danish professional footballer.
References
- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map