Aarup is a

railway town A railway town, or railroad town, is a settlement that originated or was greatly developed because of a railway station or junction at its site. North America During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporar ...

in central Denmark with a population of 3,259 (1 January 2022),BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density
The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark located in Assens municipality on the island of

Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...

Region of Southern Denmark The Region of Southern Denmark ( da, Region Syddanmark, ; german: Region Süddänemark, ; frr, Regiuun Syddanmark) is an administrative Regions of Denmark, region of Denmark established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Munici ...

. Aarup can trace its history back to 1500, but it did not become a town until the 1860s. It was located in ''Skydebjerg-Orte'' municipality until 1966 and was the municipal seat of Aarup Municipality until 2007.

Notable people

Thorvald Andersen Thorvald Andersen (8 April 1883 - 3 May 1935 ) was a Danish architect. He contributed to Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen in the 1920s. Family Carl Christian Thorvald Andersen was born in the parish of Årup on the island of Funen in Assens Mu ...

(1883 in Aarup - 1935 in Frederiksberg) a Danish architect *

Lydmor Jenny Rossander (born 27 January 1990), known by the stage name Lydmor ( Danish pronunciation: ), is a Danish singer-songwriter. She also works as a producer and film score composer. Discography Adapted from Spotify. Studio albums * ''A P ...

a Danish singer

References

Cities and towns in the Region of Southern Denmark Populated places in Funen Assens Municipality {{SouthernDK-stub