- Ledøje-Smørum
Until
January 1 ,2007 Ledøje-Smørum was a municipality (Danish, "kommune") in Copenhagen County onZealand ("Sjælland") island in easternDenmark , then merged intoEgedal . The municipality covered an area of 31 km² (12 mi²) and had a total population of 10,525 (2005), northwest of nearbyCopenhagen .History
The last mayor of Ledøje-Smørum was Jens Jørgen Nygaard, a member of the Conservative People's Party ("Det Konservative Folkeparti") political party. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Smørum.
The municipality had been created in 1970 as the result of a "kommunalreform" ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing
parish es:
* Ledøje Parish
* Smørum Parish.Ledøje-Smørum municipality ceased to exist as the result of "Kommunalreformen" ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with
Stenløse andØlstykke municipalities to form the newEgedal municipality . This created a municipality with an area of 126 km² (49 mi²) and a total population of 39,267 (2005). The new municipality belongs toRegion Hovedstaden ("Capital Region").References
* Municipal statistics: [http://www2.netborger.dk/Kommunefakta/ NetBorger Kommunefakta] , delivered from [http://www.kmd.dk/ KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)]
* Municipal mergers and neighbors: http://kommune.eniro.dk/region/media/nyekommuner.shtml Eniro new municipalities map]External links
* [http://www.egedalkommune.dk/ Egedal municipality's official website (Danish only)]
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