Store Magleby is a

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town, seat with Dragør of the

Dragør Municipality Dragør Kommune () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Hovedstaden on the southern coast of the island of Amager just east of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 18.41 km² (2013) ...

, in the

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. Its population in 2009 was 2,000.

History

Traces of an early

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settlement from about the year 200 AD have been found just south east of Store Magleby Church. In 1521

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invited

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families (from especially Nieuwpoort and Mechelen in present-day

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) to settle in the parish and grow vegetables. On arrival they received existing farms. It is used to be thought that they came from

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, but nowadays it is believed the origins of at least some of the settlers lay elsewhere in the present-day

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

or even

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. Dutch continued in use in the village until the early 19th century, and it is still colloquially named Hollænderbyen ('Dutch town'). Fires destroyed the town and farms in 1658 ( Swedish Wars), 1809 and 1821. Most were rebuilt in the village, but several moved out to the fields and are still seen in the open countryside.

Geography

Store Magleby is located in the southern side of the island of Amager, close to Dragør and

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. It lies close to

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and to its

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Notable people

Asta Hansen Asta Hansen (20 December 1914 – 21 October 1962) was a Danish stage and film actress. Asta Betty Hansen was born in Store Magleby to Grete Sofie (née Lundqvist) and Arthur Jørgen Hansen. She first acted in pantomimes and then in 1934 ...

(1914 in Store Magleby – 1962) a Danish stage and film actress IMDb Database
retrieved 31 July 2020 *

Henrik Wenzel Henrik Wenzel (born April 28, 1956) is a Danish engineer and head of SDU Life Cycle Engineering at University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Career Earlier career Henrik Wenzel was trained as a chemical engineer from the Technical University of D ...

(born 1956 in Store Magleby) a Danish engineer and head of SDU Life Cycle Engineering at

University of Southern Denmark The University of Southern Denmark ( da, Syddansk Universitet, lit=South Danish University, abbr. SDU) is a university in Denmark that has campuses located in Southern Denmark and on Zealand. The university offers a number of joint programmes in ...

References

External links

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