Vordingborg

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Vordingborg
View of the city from the Goose Tower.
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Website	www.vordingborg.dk

Vordingborg (Danish pronunciation: [ˌvɒːte̝ŋˈpɒˀ]) is an old ferry town in Vordingborg Municipality in Denmark with around 12.000 (2022) inhabitants. Because of three large estates surrounding the town, a coherent urban development has not been possible, which is the reason why three satellite towns (former villages) have emerged around the town. Within the ring of estates, the town has 12,000 inhabitants, and 17,868 inhabitants when including the three satellite towns of Ørslev, Nyråd, and Stensved, situated 1, 3 and 5 kilometres, respectively, from the town of Vordingborg. Vordingborg Municipality (Kommune) has a population of 45,352.

Long term head coach of the Denmark national football team, Morten Olsen, was born in Vordingborg.

History

On 1 January 2007, the old Vordingborg municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Langebæk, Møn, and Præstø municipalities to form an enlarged Vordingborg municipality.

Geography

Vordingborg is situated 37 km from

Vordingborg Municipality is home to 9,500 jobs.[2] Companies headquartered in Vordingborg include Vordingborg Køkkener, a kitchen manufacturer.^[3] Udbetaling Danmark, a public institution under ARP, has one of its five regional centres in the town.^[4]

Transportation

Rail

Vordingborg is served by

The ruins of Vordingborg Castle, the old royal castle which was built around 1364, is the town's most famous attraction. The only fully remaining part of the castle, the 26 meter tall Goose Tower (Gåsetårnet), is the symbol of the city. It is the largest of King Valdemar Atterdag's nine main castle towers. The name comes from the golden goose perched on top of the tower's spire. Legend has it that Valdemar Atterdag used the symbol to taunt the Hanseatic League. The current goose was put there in 1871. It is not certain what was on top of the tower before 1871 and maybe it was just a weather vane made of gold.^[6] The tower was transferred into the national trust on 24 December 1808 and is thus the first protected historic monument in Denmark.

A historic garden is also located on the site of the ruin.

Vordingborg is the home of the South Zealand Museum (Sydsjællands Museum).

The city holds an annual festival, Vordingborg Fest Week (Vordingborg Festuge) in July.

The Vordingborg Transmitter is one of the tallest towers in Denmark.

The

• Valdemar II of Denmark (1170–1241 in Vordingborg Castle), King of Denmark 1202-1241.^[7]
• Christian, Prince Elect of Denmark
• Jacob Baden (1735 in Vordingborg – 1804) a philologist, pedagogue, critic and academic
• Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758 in Vordingborg - 1841) a Danish author and philologist
• Frederik Christian Kielsen (1774-1850) a Danish schoolmaster, published copiously illustrated books on natural history; he lectured at the Latin School in Vordingborg from 1819 to 1833
• N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783 in Udby near Vordingborg – 1872) a Danish pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian and politician
• Martin Hammerich (1811 - 1881 in Iselingen) an art historian, educator, author and translator.
• Meïr Aron Goldschmidt (1819 in Vordingborg – 1887) a publisher, journalist and novelist ^[8]
• Carl Lange (1834 in Vordingborg – 1900) a physician, worked on neurology, psychiatry and psychology
• Julius Lange (1838 in Vordingborg – 1896) a Danish art historian and critic
• Astrid Stampe Feddersen (1852 in Christinelund – 1930) a Danish women's rights activist
• Jacob Ellehammer (1871 in Bakkebølle – 1946) a Danish watchmaker, inventor and contributor to powered flight
• Johannes Friis-Skotte (1874 in Vordingborg – 1946) a Danish politician and minister
• Jesper Ewald (1893 in Vordingborg – 1969 in Copenhagen) an author, journalist and translator
• Jesper Juul (born 1948 in Vordingborg) a family therapist and author on parenting
• Anders Trentemøller (born 1974 in Vordingborg) an electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist

Sport

• Vagn Ingerslev (1885 in Vordingborg – 1952) a tennis player, competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics
• Morten Olsen (born 1949) former footballer with 531 club caps and 102 for Denmark with whom he was head coach from 2000 until 2015
• Birger Pedersen (born 1950 in Vordingborg) a Danish former footballer, 14 caps for Denmark
• Steven Lustü (born 1971 in Vordingborg) a Danish former footballer with 9 caps for Denmark

Twin towns

Vordingborg is

• Słupsk, Poland - since 1994.

See also

References

External links

Media related to Vordingborg at Wikimedia Commons

• Official site of Vordingborg

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