Haslev is a

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in the southern part of the island of

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, located about southwest of

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. It has a population of 12,634 (1 January 2025), and is the largest town and municipal seat of Faxe Municipality in

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. Haslev has six public schools: two boarding schools, a folk high school, a technical school, a college of education, and a sixth-form college. The estates and castles of Gisselfeld and Bregentved are close to Haslev.

History

Haslev started out being a small village named Hasle with a few houses and streets surrounding the

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. It is mentioned for the first time in 1328 as ''Haslæ'' and in the Bishop of Roskilde's

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1370-80 as ''Hasle'' and ''Haslæ''. The name was later changed to Haslev to avoid confusion with other similar town names in Denmark. In 1870, the railway line passing Haslev town was inaugurated. At that time, Haslev had only 653 inhabitants. A street named Jernbanegade (Railway Street) was paved, to connect the church with the newly built train station. In the years that followed, the street became the main street of the town with shops, banks and so forth. In 1911, the town had 3,668 inhabitants. In the 1980s, a square in the middle of the street was constructed. During the 20th century Haslev grew rapidly, becoming a center for the Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark. The latter built a folk high school, sixth-form college (with a boarding school) among others. In the 1970s and 1980s, the schools became independent of the founding association. Today, there are only few remains of the Inner Mission in Haslev. In the early 1970s and onwards, an entrepreneur named Ole Christiansen founded whole new neighbourhoods of one-family houses with an attached garden at a low expense. This encouraged many families from all over Zealand, and especially Copenhagen, to move to Haslev. Nobel-Prize winner

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studied at Haslev Gymnasium (college) in his youth. In 1997, he received the

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for his discovery of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase Prior to 1 January 2007, Haslev was a town in Haslev Municipality ('' kommune''). On 1 January 2007 Haslev as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), became a town in Faxe municipality.

Transport

Haslev is served by Haslev railway station which is connected to and and the rest of the Danish rail network by the Little South railway line. Busses run from the station to neighbouring towns, villages and areas. European road E47 passes a short distance east of Haslev.

Notable people

* Carl Emil Moltke (1773 at Bregentved – 1858) a Danish diplomat and landowner * Emilie Ulrich (1872 in Frerslev – 1952) a Danish soprano who sang leading roles at the

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from 1894 until 1917 * Marianne Christiansen (born 1963 in Haslev) is a Lutheran Bishop in the Church of Denmark in the

Diocese of Haderslev The Diocese of Haderslev ( Danish: ''Haderslev Stift'') is a diocese within the Church of Denmark, established in 1922. List of Bishops * Ove Waldemar Ammundsen, 1923–1936 * Carl Wulff Noack, 1936–1955 * Frode Beyer, 1956–1964 * Thyge Vilhel ...

Jesper Bodilsen Jesper Bodilsen (born 5 January 1970) is a Danish jazz double bassist. Biography Bodilsen was born in Haslev, Denmark. He was a student of Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Since the end of the 1990s he worked regularly with Ed Thigpen, with whom ...

(born 1970 in Haslev) a Danish jazz double bassist *

Anders Egholm Anders Høyen Egholm (born 15 May 1983) is a retired Danish professional football defender. Career On 6 November 2009, the central defender, with a contract expiring within the end of November 2009 with Danish side of SønderjyskE, signed an ...

(born 1983 in Haslev) a Danish professional football defender, who plays for

SønderjyskE SønderjyskE is a Denmark, Danish sport corporation. They have a Football (soccer), football team (SønderjyskE Fodbold, based in Haderslev), two team handball, handball teams (SønderjyskE Håndbold, one male based in Sønderborg, one female bas ...

* Jonas Eika (born 1991) a Danish writer.

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