Borre is a village on the island of

Møn Møn () is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg Municipality, Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langeb ...

in south-eastern

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. It is located in the eastern part of the island at the foot of a hill leading up to

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and

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. With a population of 253 in the village and 509 in the parish as of 1 January 2024, it is the third largest community on the island after Stege and Store Damme. Now part of

Vordingborg Municipality Vordingborg Municipality (, ) is a '' kommune'' in the Sjælland Region, which is on the southeast coast of the island of Zealand in south Denmark. It was established in 2007. The municipality covers an area of 621 km2. It has a total popula ...

, it belongs to

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. In the

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, Borre was a

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which owed its prosperity to the herring fishing industry. The drained area now referred to as ''Borre Sømose'' was then a navigable

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connected to the sea.

History

Borre Church was built at the beginning of the 13th century in the

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with rounded arches. It is probably one of the oldest churches on the island as parts of the

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and

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are from the first half of the 13th century. The late-Gothic tower, porch and

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from about 1517 are built of brick. Borre received its privileges as a

in 1460. They were reconfirmed in 1488 and 1514. Borre by from east

The first historical reference to Borre is from 1510 when it was plundered by the

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ers from northern Germany. They burnt down many of the houses and set fire to the church with the result that all its timberwork was destroyed leaving only the bare walls. In 1648, King Frederick III renewed Borre's privileges as a market town although it had already lost its importance as a trading centre. The herring fishing industry had declined as most of the fish had left the area and the fjord was filling up with sand."Borre"
Moenantikvariat.dk. . Retrieved 1 June 2010. Like many other villages on Møn, at the beginning of the 21st century Borre had a post office, a bank and several shops. The shops have now mostly been taken over by handicraft artists and antique dealers. In Ny Borre, or Holme as it is known locally, there used to be a

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plant where the raw sugar juice was extracted and sent to the sugar factory in Stege by pipe. There was also an 11-km-long narrow-gauge railway which transported the sugar beets to Borre from the surrounding area with branches to Busemarke, Mandemarke and Råbymagle."Lidt af Borres historie"
''Borre og omegns Borgerforening''. . Retrieved 5 June 2010.

Notable people

* Tonny Jensen (born 1941 in Borre), a Danish equestrian, competed at the

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References

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