Ølsted is a small village in

Aarhus Municipality Aarhus Municipality (), known as Århus Municipality () until 2011, is a ''Municipalities of Denmark, kommune'' in the Central Denmark Region, on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of , and ...

, near the east coast of the

Central Denmark Region The Central Denmark Region (), or more directly translated as the Central Jutland Region and sometimes simply Mid-Jutland, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish municipal reform. The refo ...

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. It is located in a rural setting, south of the town of

Trige Trige is a town and suburb of Aarhus in Denmark. It has a population of 3,459 (1 January 2025).Søften Søften (alternative spellings include Suten–1386, Suchten–1399, and Søwten–1489) is a small Danish town in Jutland, roughly three kilometers south of Hinnerup and just northwest of Aarhus. Søften has a population of 3,129 (1 January 2025 ...

, and north of the city of

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...

. Ølsted consists of a number of older houses and several farms, though its proximity to Aarhus has attracted some commuters, with the Trige-Ølsted Joint Council noting in 2020 that "in recent years more detached houses have been added." The village has Ølsted Church. Students from Ølsted, up to grade 9, attend Bakkegårdsskolen in Trige. The town has a common postal district (8380) with Trige and Spørring. There may have been a

manor house A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal mea ...

in the village during the 14th century, as Jens Peter Trap, in his seminal ''Statistical-Topographical Description of the Kingdom of Denmark'' (1904, 3rd edition, if not earlier editions), includes "Johannes Pedersen of Ølsted is mentioned in 1356".

Gallery

File:Ølsted Kirke2.JPG, Ølsted Church File:Ølsted ved Århus.jpg, Ølsted

References

Towns and settlements in Aarhus Municipality {{Denmark-geo-stub