Værløse was a municipality (
Danish, ''
kommune'') consisting of only ''one''
parish
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also named Værløse in the former
Copenhagen County on the island of
Zealand
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(''Sjælland'') in eastern
Denmark
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. The municipality covered an area of 34 km
2, and in 2005 had a total population of 18,649. Its last mayor was Jesper Bach, a member of the
Venstre (Liberal Party)
political party
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.
He was the first mayor of the newly formed
Furesø municipality. The community is connected by a road and a motorway and commuter railway to
Farum to the north via an
isthmus
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at Fiskebæk between Lake Farum sø and Lake
Furesø. The road and motorway run through a small forest on the western shore of Lake Furesø and is almost out of sight and hearing distance from nearby homes in Værløse, but north of the isthmus they run through the town of Farum, separating it in a western and eastern part.
The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of
Værløse. Other towns in the former municipality are
Hareskovby,
Kirke Værløse, and
Jonstrup.
Neighboring municipalities were
Farum to the north,
Stenløse to the west,
Ballerup
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and
Herlev
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to the south, and
Gladsaxe,
Lyngby-Taarbæk and
Søllerød
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to the east, albeit the last of these is separated physically from the municipality by the waters of Lake ''
Furesø''.
On January 1, 2007, Værløse municipality ceased to exist, as the result of
''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007). It merged with
Farum municipality to form the new
Furesø municipality, of which Lake Furesø is the namesake. This created a municipality with an area of 57 km
2 and a total population of 37,311 (2005). The new municipality belongs to
Region Hovedstaden
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The Capital Region has 29 municipalities and a regional council consisting of 41 elected members. As of 1 ...
("Copenhagen Capital Region").
See also
*
Værløse station
References
* Municipal statistics
NetBorger Kommunefakta delivered fro
KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
External links
Municipality's official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vaerlose Municipality
Former municipalities of Denmark