Haslev, the largest town in

Faxe municipality Faxe municipality is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Denmark in Region Sjælland on the island of Zealand. The municipality covers an area of 406 km² and has a population of 35,418 (2008). Its mayor as of January 2018 is Ole Vive. ...

, lies in the southern part of

Zealand Zealand ( da, Sjælland ) at 7,031 km2 is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 January 2020. It is the 1 ...

, Denmark. About from

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, it has a population of 12,119 (1 January 2022).BY3: Population 1. January by urban areas, area and population density
The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark Haslev has six public schools: two boarding schools, a folk high school, a technical school, a college of education, and a sixth-form college. The estates and castles of

Gisselfeld Gisselfeld, a former monastery, is Denmark's fifth-largest estate. Located between Haslev and Næstved, it extends into several municipalities but the main building is located in Braaby Parish in Faxe Municipality. The estate measures 3,850 hecta ...

and

Bregentved Bregentved is a manor house located 3 km east of Haslev on the Danish island of Zealand. It has been owned by the Moltke family since the middle of the 18th century. History Early history The first known reference to Bregentved is from 1 ...

are close to Haslev.

History

Haslev started out being a small village named Hasle with a few houses and streets around the church. The name was changed to Haslev to avoid confusion with other similar town names in Denmark. In 1870, the railway line passing Haslev town was inaugurated. At that time, Haslev had only 653 inhabitants. A street named Jernbanegade (Railway Street) was paved, to connect the church with the newly built train station. In the years that followed, the street became the main street of the town with shops, banks and so forth. In 1911, the town had 3,668 inhabitants. In the 1980s, a square in the middle of the street was constructed. During the 20th century Haslev grew rapidly, becoming a center for

the Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark ( da, Kirkelig Forening for den Indre Mission i Danmark), or in short form Inner Mission (Danish: ''Indre Mission'') is a conservative Lutheran Christian organisation in Denmark. It is the l ...

. The latter built a folk high school, sixth-form college (with a boarding school) among others. In the 1970s and 1980s, the schools became independent of the founding association. Today, there are only few remains of the Inner Mission in Haslev. In the early 1970s and onwards, an entrepreneur named Ole Christiansen founded whole new neighbourhoods of one-family houses with an attached garden at a low expense. This encouraged many families from all over Zealand, and especially Copenhagen, to move to Haslev. Nobel-Prize winner

Jens Christian Skou Jens Christian Skou (; 8 October 1918 – 28 May 2018) was a Danish biochemist and Nobel laureate. Early life Skou was born in Lemvig, Denmark to a wealthy family. His father Magnus Martinus Skou was a timber and coal merchant. His mother Ane-Ma ...

studied at Haslev Gymnasium (college) in his youth. In 1997, he received the

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for his discovery of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase Prior to 1 January 2007, Haslev was a town in Haslev Municipality ('' kommune''). On 1 January 2007 Haslev as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), became a town in Faxe municipality.

Notable people

* Carl Emil Moltke (1773 at

– 1858) a Danish diplomat and landowner * Emilie Ulrich (1872 in Frerslev – 1952) a Danish soprano who sang leading roles at the

Royal Danish Opera The Royal Danish Theatre (RDT, Danish: ') is both the national Danish performing arts institution and a name used to refer to its old purpose-built venue from 1874 located on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen. The theatre was founded in 1748, first ser ...

from 1894 until 1917 * Marianne Christiansen (born 1963 in Haslev) is a Lutheran Bishop in the Church of Denmark in the

Diocese of Haderslev The Diocese of Haderslev ( Danish: ''Haderslev Stift'') is a diocese within the Church of Denmark The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark or National Church, sometimes called the Church of Denmark ( da, Folkekirken, literally: "The People ...

* Jesper Bodilsen (born 1970 in Haslev) a Danish jazz double bassist * Anders Egholm (born 1983 in Haslev) a Danish professional football defender, who plays for

SønderjyskE SønderjyskE is a Danish sport corporation. They have a football team (SønderjyskE Fodbold, based in Haderslev), two handball teams (SønderjyskE Håndbold, one male based in Sønderborg, one female based in Aabenraa) and an ice hockey team (S ...

* Jonas Eika (born 1991) a Danish writer.

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