Sundeved is a peninsula on the east coast of the

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peninsula in south

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. It lies between Åbenrå Fjord and Als Fjord to the north, Alssund to the east and Flensborg Fjord to the south. The westernmost part of the city of

Sønderborg (; german: Sonderburg ) is a Danish town in the Region of Southern Denmark. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Sønderborg Municipality (Kommune). The town has a population of 27,766 (1 January 2022),Als Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the progressive loss of motor neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is the most com ...

. Until December 31, 2006 Sundeved (german: Sundewitt) was also the name of a municipality in the former

South Jutland County South Jutland County (Danish: ''Sønderjyllands Amt'') is a former county (Danish: ''amt'') on the south-central portion of the Jutland Peninsula in southern Denmark. The county was formed on 1 April 1970, comprising the former counties of Aaben ...

The municipality covered an area of 69 km², and had a total population of 5,298 (2005). Its last mayor was John Solkær Pedersen. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Sønderborg, in neighboring Sønderborg municipality. Towns in the municipality included Avnbøl, Ballebro, Blans, Stenderup, Ullerup, Vester Sottrup, and Øster Sottrup.

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service connects the former municipality at the town of Ballebro over Als Fjord to the town of Hardeshøj. The municipality was created in 1970 as the result 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: * Nybøl (german: Nübel) Parish * Sottrup (German:''Satrup'') Parish * Ullerup (German:''Ulderup'') Parish Sundeved municipality ceased to exist as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was combined with existing Augustenborg,

Broager Broager (; german: Broacker, South Jutlandic: Braue) is a town with a population of 3,238 (1 January 2022)Gråsten Gråsten (; german: Gravenstein) is a town with a population of 4,274 (1 January 2022)Nordborg Nordborg (german: Norburg), is a town with a population of 5,709 (1 January 2022),Sydals Until 1 January 2007 Sydals (german: Südalsen) was a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in South Jutland County on the southern part of the island of Als off the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covered an ar ...

, and

Sønderborg (; german: Sonderburg ) is a Danish town in the Region of Southern Denmark. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Sønderborg Municipality (Kommune). The town has a population of 27,766 (1 January 2022),Sønderborg Municipality Sønderborg Municipality (german: Sonderburg), is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region of Southern Denmark partially on the Jutland peninsula and partially on the island of Als in south Denmark, at the border with Germany. The municipali ...

. This created a municipality with an area of 499 km² and a total population of over 70,000 people (2005). The new municipality belongs to the new

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 ...

Notable people

Johannes Gelert Johannes Sophus Gelert (1852-1923) was a Danes, Danish-born sculptor, who came to the United States in 1887 and during a span of more than thirty years produced numerous works of civic art in the Midwestern United States, Midwest and on the East ...

(1852 in Nybøl – 1923) a Danish-born sculptor, who emigrated to the United States in 1887 *

Otto Gelert Otto Christian Leonor Gelert (9 November 1862 in Nybøl on Sundeved peninsula – 20 March 1899 in Copenhagen) was a Danish pharmacist and botanist, who specialized in plant floristics and systematics. He was a brother of sculptor Johannes Gele ...

(1862 in Nybøl on Sundeved peninsula – 1899) a Danish pharmacist and botanist, who specialized in plant floristics and systematics

External links

Sønderborg municipality's official website (Danish only)

Tourism information

References

* Municipal statistics
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