Lunderskov Municipality
Until January 1, 2007 Lunderskov Municipality was a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Vejle County near the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 96 km2, and had a total population of 5,478 (2005). Its last mayor was Hans Peter Andersen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of , located ca. halfway between the cities of Kolding and Vejen, just south of the Esbjerg Motorway.
The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing parishes:
- Jordrup Parish
- Lejrskov Parish
- Skanderup Parish
Lunderskov municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Christiansfeld, Kolding, and Vamdrup municipalities to form a new Kolding municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 640 km2 and a total population of 86,102 (2005). The new municipality belongs to Region of Southern Denmark.
Notable people[]
- Paula Trock (1889–1979 in Lunderskov) a Danish weaver
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References[]
- Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
- Former municipalities of Denmark
- Kolding Municipality