Haslev
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Haslev, the largest town in
Haslev has six public schools: two boarding schools, a folk high school, a technical school, a college of education, and a sixth-form college.
The estates and castles of Gisselfeld and Bregentved are close to Haslev.
History
Haslev started out being a small village named Hasle with a few houses and streets around the church. The name was changed to Haslev to avoid confusion with other similar town names in Denmark.
In 1870, the railway line passing Haslev town was inaugurated. At that time, Haslev had only 653 inhabitants. A street named Jernbanegade (Railway Street) was paved, to connect the church with the newly built train station. In the years that followed, the street became the main street of the town with shops, banks and so forth. In 1911, the town had 3,668 inhabitants. In the 1980s, a square in the middle of the street was constructed.
During the 20th century Haslev grew rapidly, becoming a center for
In the early 1970s and onwards, an entrepreneur named Ole Christiansen founded whole new neighbourhoods of one-family houses with an attached garden at a low expense. This encouraged many families from all over Zealand, and especially Copenhagen, to move to Haslev.
Nobel-Prize winner
Prior to 1 January 2007, Haslev was a town in
Notable people
- Carl Emil Moltke (1773 at Bregentved – 1858) a Danish diplomat and landowner
- Royal Danish Operafrom 1894 until 1917
- Marianne Christiansen (born 1963 in Haslev) is a Lutheran Bishop in the Church of Denmark in the Diocese of Haderslev
- Jesper Bodilsen (born 1970 in Haslev) a Danish jazz double bassist
- Anders Egholm (born 1983 in Haslev) a Danish professional football defender, who plays for SønderjyskE
- Jonas Eika (born 1991) a Danish writer.
References
- ^ BY1: Population 1. January by urban areas, age and sex The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- ^ BY3: Population 1. January by urban areas, area and population density The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
External links
Castles
Schools
- Haslev Sixth Form College (Haslev Gymnasium & HF)
- Haslev College of Education (Haslev Seminarium) Archived 25 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- The folk high school (Haslev Udvidede Hoejskole)
Public schools
- Groendalsskolen
- Lysholm Skole
- Nordskovskolen
- Sofiendalskolen Archived 31 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Svalebaekskolen
- Terslev Skole
Boarding schools