Skærbæk (german: Scherrebek) 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 ...

, with a population of 3,135 (1 January 2022),BY3: Population 1 January by rural and urban areas, area and population density
The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark in

Tønder Municipality Tønder (German: ''Tondern'', North Frisian: ''Tuner'') is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,278 km2, and has a total populati ...

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

on the

Jutland Jutland ( da, Jylland ; german: Jütland ; ang, Ēota land ), known anciently as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula ( la, Cimbricus Chersonesus; da, den Kimbriske Halvø, links=no or ; german: Kimbrische Halbinsel, links=no), is a peninsula of ...

peninsula in south Denmark. Skærbæk was the municipal seat of the former

Skærbæk Municipality Skærbæk Municipality was a municipality in Southern Jutland. It covered an area of and had a total population of 7,294 (2005). The municipal seat was the town of Skærbæk. The municipality included the island of Rømø, the southernmost of ...

, until 1 January 2007.

Skærbæk Church

Skærbæk Church
is first mentioned in the sources in 1292 and it is then said that it is dedicated to St. Simon and Skt. Judas (son of Jacob).

Notable people

* Jeppe Prætorius (1745-1823) a Danish merchant and shipowner, was born in Skærbæk. * Jannik Petersen Bjerrum (1851-1920) a Danish ophthalmologist, was born in Skærbæk *

Kirstine Meyer Kirstine Bjerrum Meyer (12 October 1861 – 28 September 1941) was a Danish physicist and was first woman from her country to earn a doctorate in natural sciences. Biography Kirstine Bjerrum was born in Skærbæk, Denmark and died in Hellerup ...

(1861-1941) a Danish physicist, was born in Skærbæk. * The former professional footballer Kenneth Fabricius is born in Skærbæk.

References

Cities and towns in the Region of Southern Denmark Tønder Municipality {{Denmark-geo-stub