- Juelsminde Municipality
Until
January 1 ,2007 Juelsminde municipality was a municipality (Danish, "kommune") inVejle County on the east coast of theJutland peninsula in centralDenmark . The municipality included the island of Hjarnø, and covered an area of 240 km². It had a total population of 15,555 (2005). Its last mayor was Peter Schmidt Hansen, a member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Juelsminde.The municipality was located on a headland, and was thus surrounded by water on three sides.
Juelsminde municipality was, as the result of "Kommunalreformen" ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007), merged with Hedensted municipality and most of Tørring-Uldum municipality to form a new Hedensted municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 565 km² and a total population of 56,508 (2005). The new municipality belongs to
Region Midtjylland ("Mid-Jutland Region"). A portion of Tørring-Uldum was merged into the new Vejle municipality.External links
* [http://www.hedensted.dk/ Hedensted municipality's official website] da icon
* [http://www.vejle.dk/ Vejle municipality's official website] da iconReferences
* 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]
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