Store Magleby is a Danish town, seat with

Dragør Dragør () is the main town of Dragør Municipality, (Denmark), which includes the village of Store Magleby. The city hall and seat of the municipal council lies on Kirkevej 7 (postal code 2791 Dragør) in Store Magleby, which has enough space ...

of the Dragør Municipality, in the Region Hovedstaden. 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 Christian II invited Dutch-speaking families (from especially Nieuwpoort and

Mechelen Mechelen (; french: Malines ; traditional English name: MechlinMechelen has been known in English as ''Mechlin'', from where the adjective ''Mechlinian'' is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical contex ...

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

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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 (

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), 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 Tårnby. It lies close to

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and to its

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Notable people

* Asta Hansen (1914 in Store Magleby – 1962) a Danish stage and film actress IMDb Database
retrieved 31 July 2020 * Henrik Wenzel (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 i ...

References

External links

Source
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