Kerteminde

Coordinates: 55°27′N 10°40′E / 55.450°N 10.667°E / 55.450; 10.667
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Kerteminde
Town
Street with old houses in Kerteminde.
Street with old houses in Kerteminde.
UTC+2 (CEST
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Postal code
DK-5300 Kerteminde

Kerteminde (nickname: Min Amandas by, i.e. My Amanda's town), is a town in central Denmark, located in Kerteminde Municipality on the island of Funen. The town has a population of 6,034 (1 January 2023).[1] It is a small harbor town surrounded by farms. Kerteminde contains a fish restaurant, Rudolf Mathis, the Viking museum Ladby, and the research and exhibition institution for fish and porpoises Fjord & Bælt.

Parish and churches

Kerteminde is part of the Kerteminde-Drigstrup Parish, which was created on December 1, 2013 by merging the two parishes. Kerteminde Parish was quite small,[3] so in the 1920s Kerteminde grew beyond the parish boundaries and gained a suburb on Over Kærby Mark in Drigstrup Parish.

Kerteminde's parish church, Sankt Laurentii Kirke, is located in the town. The town is also home to Emmauskirken, which is owned by Kerteminde-Dalby Valgmenighed, which also has Bethlehemskirken in Dalby.

School facilities

Kerteminde Byskole has 466 students in grades 0-9.[4] Kerteminde Efterskole is a Grundtvig-Kold school with 23 employees.[5]

The town has 4 daycare centers: Balders Hus with daycare and kindergarten for 78 children, Fjordvang kindergarten for 53 children, Nymarken kindergarten for 62 children and the private daycare and kindergarten Mølleløkken for 51 children.[6]

Kerteminde Idrætscenter consists of two sports halls at the town's stadium.

Etymology

The town's name (1412 Kiertheminde, 1430 Kirtimynnæ) comes from the old name for Kerteminde Fjord, Kirta, followed by the Old Danish word minni, 'mynni 'mouth'.[7]

Notable people

Painters

Other arts

  • Frederik Paludan-Müller (1809 in Kerteminde – 1876) a Danish poet [8]
  • Arent Nicolai Dragsted (1821 in Kerteminde – 1898) a Danish goldsmith
  • Franz Syberg (1904 in Kerteminde - 1955) a composer and organist at Kerteminde, 1932-1955
  • Henning Ipsen (1930-1984) Danish novelist and translator
  • Annette Strøyberg (1936 in Rynkeby, near Kerteminde – 2005) a Danish actress [9]
  • Torbjørn C. Pedersen (born 1978 in Kerteminde) a Danish traveller and adventurer

Sport

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Denmark

Twin towns and sister cities

Kerteminde is

twinned
with:

See also

  • Korshavn, Denmark

References

  1. ^ a b BY3: Population 1. January by urban and rural areas, area and population density The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
  2. ^ BY1: Population 1. January by urban areas, age and sex The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
  3. ^ "Geodatastyrelsen: Lave målebordsblade 1901-1971". Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  4. ^ "Kerteminde Byskole". Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Kerteminde Efterskole". Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
  6. ^ Daginstitutioner i Kerteminde
  7. ^ Nudansk Ordbog, Politikens Forlag, 1972. Se også www.historikerportalen.dk[permanent dead link].
  8. Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Paludan-Müller, Frederik" . Encyclopædia Britannica
    . Vol. 20 (11th ed.). p. 655.
  9. ^ IMDb Database retrieved 15 May 2020

External links

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