Aalestrup is a town in

Vesthimmerland Municipality Vesthimmerland Municipality or Vesthimmerlandøs Municipality is a municipality ( da, kommune) in the North Jutland Region in Denmark. It covers an area of 768,08 km² (2013) and has a total population of 38,277 inhabitants (2008). The Munici ...

with a population of 2,780 (1 January 2022) in

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Facilities

Aalestrup School has 294 students, divided into 0.-6. Class stage, as well as the SFO Kvisten. After grade 6, students can continue at Aalestrup Real School, founded in 1904, and is a secondary school with 171 students, divided between 7 and 9. grade. The city also has after-school Aalestrup Nature after school. Aalestrup Idrætscenter and Friluftsbad have two halls. The open-air swimming pool is open during the 3 summer months, where the 3 basins have 27 ° hot water. In addition, the center has a hostel with 10 rooms and a total of 37 beds. The city also has Hotel Hvide Kro, built in 1902 and has 22 rooms and 3 banquet rooms.

Aalestrup Municipality

Before the ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007), Aalestrup municipality was a municipality (

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, '' kommune'') in

Viborg County Viborg Amt () is a former county (Danish: ''amt'') in the north-central part of the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. The county was abolished on 1 January 2007, when most of it merged into Region Midtjylland (i.e. ''Region Central Jutland' ...

on the

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peninsula in northern

. The municipality covered an area of {{cvt, 176, km2, and had a total population of 7,631 (2005). Its latest mayor was Rigmor Sandborg. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Aalestrup. The municipality was located on the eastern shores of the area known as ''

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'', a part of the Jutland peninsula

Notable people

Astrid Villaume Astrid Villaume (3 November 1923 – 12 February 1995) was a Danish actress of stage and film best known for her Bodil Award-winning title role in the 1950 film ''Susanne''. Danish film historian Morten Piil described Villaume's appeal as a comb ...

(1923 in Aalestrup – 1995) a Danish actress of stage and film, played title role in the 1950 film ''

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Per Bisgaard Per Deichmann Bisgaard (born 31 July 1955, in Fjelsø), is a former teacher, mayor and member of the Folketinget. He was born on a farm, Steensbækgaard, in Fjelsø, the son of a farmer, Frits Deichmann Bisgaard and his spouse Anna Bodil Bisgaar ...

(born 1955 in Fjelsø) a former teacher, Mayor of Aalestrup 1994–2001, member of the

Folketinget The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands a ...

Niels Guldbjerg Niels Guldbjerg (born 10 February 1958) is a Danish retired professional footballer who played in the North American Soccer League and the Major Indoor Soccer League for the Detroit Express, Philadelphia Fever, New Jersey Rockets and Buffalo S ...

(born 1958 in Aalestrup) a Danish retired professional footballer who played 154 games in the North American Soccer League

References

External links

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