Skejby is a neighbourhood and former village in

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...

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. The neighbourhood is part of the city district

Aarhus N Aarhus N is a postal district in the city of Aarhus, consisting of Trøjborg, Risskov, Vejlby, Skejby, Vorrevangen and Christiansbjerg, all with postal code 8200. Aarhus N is an abbreviation for Aarhus Nord (lit. "Aarhus North") and is located nort ...

. The Skejby village was originally situated in the countryside north of Aarhus, overlooking the broad flat Egå Valley, but urban development has engulfed it, creating a new suburban neighbourhood by the same name. The old village is still distinctly visible, surrounding the old white village church. Archaeological excavations have revealed, that Skejby has been settled since the early

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(c. 500 BC), but finds from the

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has also been unearthed. Søften and

Lisbjerg Lisbjerg is a village and suburb 7 km north of the city center of Aarhus, Denmark. Lisbjerg has a population of 1,063 (1 January 2022). Lisbjerg is situated on the northern slopes of the broad and flat valley of Egådalen, marking the north ...

north of Skejby, are important archaeological sites.

The neighbourhood

The Skejby neighbourhood comprise a large business park, an industrial park, a regional hospital, and several major institutions for education and business. Residential areas forms a large part of Skejby east of the expressway of Randersvej, while the old village is the only residential area west of the expressway, with the exception of a few new apartment blocks near nature site

Vestereng Vestereng is a nature site in the environs of northern Aarhus and the suburb of Skejby. The name literally translates as 'westward meadow'. The Municipality of Aarhus took ownership in 1939. The area has a lively history of recent times and is ...

. Business Park Skejby stretches south from the village of Skejby towards Aarhus and continues into the neighbourhood of Christiansbjerg. In Skejby, it contains the Agro Food Park, with a focus on agriculture and foodstuff, and offices and business headquarters for companies such as

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, IBM, TDC Hosting and NRGi. The headquarters of

INCUBA Science Park INCUBA Science Park is a research park in Aarhus, Denmark with four departments in Skejby, Katrinebjerg, Aarhus University and Aarhus Docklands. INCUBA was created as a merger of three former research institutions in 2007, and is an amalgamati ...

, the educational institution of

Professionshøjskole University colleges in Denmark are called ''professionshøjskoler'' (literal translation: ''professional college''). Danish university colleges offer profession specific tertiary education, also known as medium higher education (MVU) and diploma co ...

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is also located here. The New University Hospital (DNU) was built in Skejby in the years 2012-2018 and is absorbing all other hospital departments across Aarhus, to be fully functional in 2020. The new hospital complex includes a psychiatric department and the only emergency and trauma center in Aarhus. East of the expressway of Randersvej, in a low-rise residential area, is the mall of Skejby Centret and the headquarters of the television company department

TV 2/Østjylland TV 2/Østjylland is one of eight regional TV-stations in the TV 2 (Denmark), TV 2 network in Denmark. The station was founded in 1990, and the first news broadcast was made on 1 April the same year. The station covers the eastern part of Jutland, ...

. North of here is a lightweight

industrial park An industrial park (also known as industrial estate, trading estate) is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development. An industrial park can be thought of as a more "heavyweight" version of a business park or office park, ...

stretching eastward into the neighbourhood of

Vejlby Vejlby is a north-eastern neighbourhood of Aarhus in Denmark. It is located 5km from the city centre and is administratively part of the district of Risskov. The neighbourhood of Vejlby was administratively merged with Risskov at the end of the ...

. The industrial park comprise large store departments of

ILVA ILVA is a Danish chain of furniture stores, offering mostly Scandinavian-style bed-, dining- and living room products. The company was founded in 1974, and currently runs eight stores in the Nordic countries. It also had three stores in Brit ...

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and

Silvan Byggemarked Silvan A/S is a Danish chain of hardware stores established in 1874. It is one of the largest retailers of DIY building materials in Denmark, and they primarily sell to nonprofessionals but also to professional tradesmen. The name, ''Silvan'', c ...

, and a number of mixed industries, offices and warehouse facilities. The woodland of

Mollerup Skov Mollerup Skov (''Mollerup Forest'') is a 97 hectare relatively new forest situated in the northern outskirts of the city of Aarhus, Denmark. In the neighbourhood of Vejlby and Skejby between Skejbyvej, Langengevej and Skejby Nordlandsvej to be p ...

in the east, connects with the nature site of

Egå Engsø Egå Engsø is an artificial lake and wetland site located in the north of the town of Aarhus between Vejlby, Risskov and Lystrup. Engsø means 'meadow lake' and Egå means 'oak stream', referring to the stream that drains the lake into the Aar ...

Aarhus light rail

The first leg of

Aarhus light rail The Aarhus Letbane (Aarhus light rail) is a light rail system in the city of Aarhus, Denmark. It is operated by the company Midttrafik. The first line opened in December 2017, but the system is under continuous development and expansion. Service ...

was inaugurated in December 2017 and connects the inner city to Skejby, continuing north to Lisbjerg. There is a station at the new AU Hospital.

Gallery

File:Aarhus Universitetshospital, Skejby.jpg, Aarhus University Hospital (DNU) File:Facade TV2 ØSTJYLLAND.jpg, TV2 Østjylland headquarters File:Skelager Kirke2.jpg, The modern church of Skelager Kirke. File:Skejby Centret.jpg, Skejby Centret File:IKEA, Aarhus.JPG, IKEA File:Egådalen (juli).jpg, The Egå Valley File:Mollerup Skov (Juli) 4.jpg, From Mollerup Skov.

References

External links

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