Kerteminde

Kerteminde
Kerteminde
Town
	Street with old houses in Kerteminde.
	Coat of arms
	Nickname(s): Kerteminde Haven ved Havet / The Garden by the Sea / Der Garten am Meer
	Kerteminde Location in the Region of Southern Denmark
	Coordinates: 55°27′N 10°40′E / 55.450°N 10.667°ECoordinates: 55°27′N 10°40′E / 55.450°N 10.667°E
Country	Denmark
Region	Southern Denmark
Municipality	Kerteminde
Area
• Urban	3.42 km2 (1.32 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Urban	6,008
• Urban density	1,800/km2 (4,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	DK-5300 Kerteminde

Kerteminde (nickname: Min Amandas by, i.e. My Amanda's town), is a town in central Denmark, located in Kerteminde Municipality on the island of Funen. The town has a population of 6,008 (1 January 2021).^[1] It is a small harbor town surrounded by farms. Kerteminde contains a fish restaurant, Rudolf Mathis, the Viking museum Ladby, and the research and exhibition institution for fish and porpoises .

Notable people[]

Painters[]

Frederik Storch (1805 in Kerteminde – 1883) a Danish genre painter
Johannes Larsen (1867 in Kerteminde – 1961) a nature painter, one of the Funen Painters
Anna Syberg (1870–1914) a Funen painter, lived in Pilegården near Kerteminde from 1902
Christine Swane (1876 in Kerteminde – 1960) one of the Funen Painters then developed a Cubist style
Axel P. Jensen (1885 in Kerteminde – 1972) a painter of landscapes with stronger colouring than the Funen Painters
Alfred Simonsen (1906 in Kølstrup, near Kerteminde – 1935) a painter, one of the Odsherred Painters
Ernst Syberg (1906 in Kerteminde – 1981) a painter, became one of the Odsherred Painters
Birthe Bovin (1906 in Kerteminde – 1980) a self-taught Danish painter, became one of Odsherred Painters

Other arts[]

Frederik Paludan-Müller (1809 in Kerteminde – 1876) a Danish poet ^[2]
Arent Nicolai Dragsted (1821 in Kerteminde – 1898) a Danish goldsmith
Franz Syberg (1904 in Kerteminde - 1955) a composer and organist at Kerteminde, 1932-1955
Annette Strøyberg (1936 in Rynkeby, near Kerteminde – 2005) a Danish actress ^[3]
Torbjørn C. Pedersen (born 1978 in Kerteminde) a Danish traveller and adventurer

Sport[]

Niels Petersen (1918 in Kerteminde – 1966) a weightlifter, competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Jan Eli Andersen (born 1966 in Kerteminde) a sailor, competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Niclas Vemmelund (born 1992 in Kerteminde) a Danish football defender

International relations[]

Twin towns and sister cities[]

Kerteminde is twinned with:

Forsand, Norway Loksa, Estonia Lempäälä, Finland	North Berwick, United Kingdom Øvre Eiker, Norway Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic	Schwentinental, Germany Ulricehamn, Sweden

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b BY3: Population 1. January by urban and rural areas, area and population density The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
^ "Paludan-Müller, Frederik" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 20 (11th ed.). 1911.
^ IMDb Database retrieved 15 May 2020

External links[]

Kerteminde municipality

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[BY3-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b BY3: Population 1. January by urban and rural areas, area and population density The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark

[2] "Paludan-Müller, Frederik" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 20 (11th ed.). 1911.

[3] IMDb Database retrieved 15 May 2020

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