Sæby () is a town and seaport located on the east coast of the historical region of Vendsyssel in the Jutland

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in northern Denmark. The town is located in Frederikshavn municipality in Region Nordjylland. It has a population of 8,838 (1 January 2022). Sæby was granted market rights in 1524.

History

Until 2007 Sæby was the main town in Sæby municipality. Since 2007 part of Frederikshavn municipality.

Attractions

* Sæby Glassblowing Workshop * Sæby Harbour * Sæby Church * Fruen fra Havet: 6,25 m. high statue standing on the pier at the entrance to Sæby harbour. The statue was made by artist Marit Benthe Norheim and it was inaugurated in 2001. * Sæby Museum * Sæby Old Town * Sæby Teddies (two persons in teddy-bear costumes) * Sæby Watermill * Sæbygaard Manor: A manor house from the renaissance. Inside there is a small museum with exhibitions of historical furniture. * Sæby Beach * Sæby Townsquare

Notable people

Science & Business

Jacob Severin Jacob Sørensen Severin (27 October 1691 – 21 March 1753) was a Danish merchant who held a trade monopoly on Greenland from 1733 to 1749. Biography He was born in Sæby, Denmark, to Søren Nielsen (c. 1655–1730) and his wife Birgitte Ot ...

(1691 in Sæby – 1753) a Danish merchant who held a trade monopoly on Greenland from 1733 to 1749 *

Sophus Frederik Kühnel Sophus Frederik Kühnel (11 May 1851 – 13 October 1930) was a Danish architect best known for his design of Mejlborg and a number of other buildings in Aarhus. Biography Kühnel was born in Sæby, Denmark. He was the son of parish priest ...

(1851 in Sæby – 1930) a Danish architect, designed

Mejlborg Mejlborg is a residential building in Aarhus, Denmark. The building is situated in the Nørre Stenbro neighborhood on ''Kystvejen'' 59-65 and Mejlgade 92 in the city center. It was the first large, privately built apartment complex in the city and ...

and a number of other buildings 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 ...

Adam Giede Böving Adam Giede Böving (July 31, 1869 – March 16, 1957) was a Danish-American entomologist and zoologist. He was a specialist in the study of the larvae of the order Coleoptera and the author of a series of descriptions on their early stages of d ...

(1869 in Sæby – 1957) a Danish-American entomologist and zoologist, studied the larvae of the order

Coleoptera Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

The Arts

Henry Holst Henry Holst (25 July 1899 – 19 October 1991) was a Danish violinist. In his early career he was leader of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Wilhelm Furtwängler. From the 1930s to the mid-1950s he was based in England, as a soloist and teach ...

(1899 in Sæby – 1991) a Danish violinist, variously at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the

Royal Manchester College of Music The Royal Manchester College of Music (RMCM) was a tertiary level conservatoire in Manchester, north-west England. It was founded in 1893 by the German-born conductor Sir Charles Hallé in 1893. In 1972, the Royal Manchester College of Music a ...

, the Royal College of Music and the

Royal Danish Academy of Music The Royal Danish Academy of Music, or Royal Danish Conservatory of Music ( da, Det Kongelige Danske Musikkonservatorium), in Copenhagen is the oldest professional institution of musical education in Denmark as well as the largest, with approxima ...

. * Carl Ottosen (1918 – 1972 in Saeby) a Danish actor, screenwriter and film director, appearing in 70 films IMDb Database
retrieved 24 April 2020 *

Walter Kuhlman Walter Kuhlman (1918–2009) was a 20th-century American painter and printmaker. In the late 1940s and 1950s, he was a core member of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. He later worked in a representational style related to Ame ...

(1918–2009) an American painter and printmaker, linked to

Abstract Expressionism Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

and

American Figurative Expressionism American Figurative Expressionism is a 20th-century visual art style or movement that first took hold in Boston, and later spread throughout the United States. Critics dating back to the origins of Expressionism have often found it hard to define ...

, brought up in Sæby *

Jørgen Rømer Jørgen Kofoed Rømer (9 May 1923 – 1 July 2007) was a Danish art historian, graphic artist and painter. Biography Born in Sæby near Frederikshavn, Rømer studied the history of art at Copenhagen University from 1943 to 1952 but was self-taught ...

(1923 in Saeby – 2007) a Danish art historian, graphic artist and painter *

Lene Siel Lene Siel (born 21 August 1968) is a Danish singer. She was born in Sæby. Siel studied at both Aalborg University and Copenhagen Business School. As a child she started to perform with her parents. Her father was Kurt Siel, a guitarist, and her m ...

(born 1968 in Saeby) a Danish singer

Sport

Merete Pedersen Merete Pedersen (born 30 June 1973) is a Danish former football striker who played for Vejle BK and Odense BK in the Elitedivisionen, TSV Siegen in the German Bundesliga and Torres CF in Italy's Serie A, taking part in the UEFA Women's Cup wit ...

(born 1973 in Saeby) a Danish former footballer, member of the Danish national team for 16 years *

Rasmus Thellufsen Rasmus Thellufsen Pedersen (; born 9 January 1997) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Vendsyssel FF. Club career AaB Thellufsen was promoted to the senior team of AaB along with U19 teammates Magnus Christensen, ...

(born 1997 in Saeby) a Danish footballer, playing for AaB

References

Cities and towns in the North Jutland Region Frederikshavn Municipality {{NJutlandDK-stub