Slagelse

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Slagelse
City
Church of Saint Michael
UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	4200
Calling code	(+45) 58
Website	https://www.slagelse.dk/

Slagelse (Danish pronunciation:

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History

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Slagelse has been inhabited since at least the Viking Age, where it was a

Antvorskov was built in the 1100s by Valdemar I, who had recently acquired Zealand. He built the monastery in an attempt to gain control and favor with the locals. The monastery was used by the Knights Hospitaller. ^[4]

Slagelse was granted the status of a market town in 1288 by Eric V. This gave the town a series of privileges, though eventually put it in competition with the neighboring market towns of Korsør and Skælskør. In the 1780s a road from Copenhagen to Korsør was built, and this road ran through Slagelse.^[5]

Sights

Slagelse Park (Danish: Slagelse Lystanlæg) is a park located centrally in Slagelse. It is a green recreational area, with lakes, playgrounds and a maze.^[6]

Slagelse Museum is located centrally in Slagelse. The museum focuses mainly on trade and artisanry. It includes a reconstruction of a shop from the 1940-1950s, as well as sections on local history. A part of the museum is dedicated to H. C. Andersen, who went to school in Slagelse.^[7]

Antvorskov

The

Slagelse is located on the

• Ludvig Stoud Platou (1778–1833), historical and geographical writer
• Georg Koës (1782–1811), philologist
• William Christopher Zeise (1789–1847), chemist
• Jørgen Peter Frederik Wulff (1808–1881), naval officer
• Anna Laursen (1845–1911), schoolteacher and women's rights activist
• Niels Erik Nørlund (1885–1981), mathematician
• Margrethe Nørlund Bohr (1890–1984), editor and transcriber for Danish physicist Niels Bohr
• Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920–1989), politician and leader of the Danish Social Liberal Party from 1968–1975
• Villum Christensen (born 1954), politician and MF
• Kim Christiansen (born 1956), politician and MF
• Stén Knuth (born 1964), politician and MF
• Louise Schack Elholm (born 1977), politician and MF
• Rasmus Horn Langhoff (born 1980), politician and MF

Art

• Johan Jacob Bruun (1715–1789), painter
• Andrea Krætzmer (1811–1889), ballet dancer
• Didrik Frisch (1835–1867), landscape painter
• Ludvig Abelin Schou (1838–1867), painter
• Hans Egede Budtz (1889–1968), actor
• Ella Ungermann (1891–1921), actress
• Vilhelm Lauritzen (1894–1984), architect and founder of the Vilhelm Lauritzen Architects architectural firm
• Hardy Rafn (1930–1997), actor
• Stig Brøgger (born 1941), artist
• Torben Lendager (born 1951), singer
• Kirsten Siggard (born 1954), singer and 3-time participant of the Eurovision Song Contest
• Karsten Kiilerich (born 1955), director, writer and animator
• Elle Klarskov Jørgensen (born 1958), sculptor
• Simone Egeriis (born 1992), pop singer
• Alex Høgh Andersen (born 1994), actor

Sport

• Fred K. Nielsen (1879–1963), college football coach
• Hans Olsen (fencer) (1886–1976), fencer
• Poul Toft Jensen (1912–2000), football player
• Gunner Olesen (1916–1979), gymnast
• Villy Moll Nielsen (1927), field hockey player
• Poul Moll Nielsen (1930 - 1992), field hockey player
• Torben Alstrup Jensen (1930 - 2007), field hockey player
• Willy Kristoffersen (born 1933), field hockey player
• Ernst Pedersen (born 1935), former sports shooter
• Vagn Bangsborg (born 1936), former cyclist
• Ole Ritter (born 1941), former cyclist
• Bo Braastrup Andersen (born 1976), football manager and former goalkeeper
• Martin Kristjansen (born 1977), boxer
• Joachim Persson (born 1983), badminton player
• Buster Juul (born 1993), handball player
• Niklas Larsen (born 1997), cyclist

References

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