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. SkærbækRådhus

The municipality included the island of

Rømø Rømø (german: Röm, frr, Rem) is a Danish island in the Wadden Sea. Rømø is part of Tønder Municipality. The island had 650 inhabitants as of 1 January 2011,

, the southernmost of Denmark's part of the

North Frisian Islands The North Frisian Islands (''Öömrang'' and '' Fering'' frr, Nuurdfresk Eilunen, ''Söl'ring'' frr, Nuurđfriisk Ailönen, link=no, da, Nordfrisiske Øer, german: Nordfriesische Inseln) are the Frisian Islands off the coast of North Frisia. T ...

. The island, which lies in the Wadden Sea about from the mainland, is a popular

beach A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shel ...

area in the summer, and is linked to the mainland by a road— ''Rømøvej''— running across a

causeway A causeway is a track, road or railway on the upper point of an embankment across "a low, or wet place, or piece of water". It can be constructed of earth, masonry, wood, or concrete. One of the earliest known wooden causeways is the Sweet Tra ...

. There is ferry service from the harbour on Rømø to another popular summer island, the German island of

Sylt Sylt (; da, Sild; Sylt North Frisian, Söl'ring North Frisian: ) is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, and well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian ...

, less than south of Rømø. The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

es: * Brøns Parish * Døstrup Parish * Mjolden Parish * * Rømø Parish * Skærbæk Parish * Vodder Parish On January 1, 2007, Skærbæk Municipality ceased to exist as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Bredebro, Højer,

Løgumkloster Løgumkloster (german: Lügumkloster; both mean 'Løgum monastery'), is a town in Tønder Municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark with a population of 3,480 (1 January 2022).Nørre-Rangstrup, and Tønder municipalities to form the new

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 ...

. This created a municipality with an area of and a total population of 42,645 (2005).

Notable people

Jeppe Prætorius Jeppe Prætorius (4 July 1745 – 6 April 1823) was a Danish merchant, slave trader and shipowner. Biography Prætorius was born in Skærbæk near Tønder in Jutland. He moved to Copenhagen where he became bookkeeper for the Danish West ...

(1745 in Skærbæk – 1823) a Danish merchant and shipowner. *

Jannik Petersen Bjerrum Jannik Petersen Bjerrum (26 December 1851 – 2 July 1920) was a Danish ophthalmologist who was a native of Skærbæk, a town in the southernmost part of Jutland. In 1864 Skærbæk became part of Germany due to consequences of the Second Schlesw ...

(1851 in Skærbæk – 1920) a Danish ophthalmologist *

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 in Skærbæk – 1941) a Danish physicist * Kenneth Fabricius (born 1981 in Skærbæk) a Danish professional footballer.

References

* Municipal statistics
NetBorger Kommunefakta
delivered fro
KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
* Municipal mergers and neighbors
Eniro new municipalities map

External links

* Former municipalities of Denmark Tønder Municipality {{SouthernDK-stub