Hemmet is a small town and a parish in the former Egvad Municipality

Egvad Municipality

Until January 1, 2007, Egvad was a municipality in Ringkøbing County near the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 377 km², and had a total population of 9,396 . Its last mayor was Kent Skaanning. The municipality's main town and the site of...

 (Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

: Egvad kommune

Municipalities of Denmark

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) since 1 January 2007 part of the Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality

Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality

Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality is a municipality in Denmark. It was formed on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 administrative reform from the former municipalities of Egvad, Holmsland, Ringkøbing, Skjern, and Videbæk. The new municipality has an area of 1,485 km², the largest, area wise,...

, Midtjylland, near the west coast of Jutland

Jutland

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 in Denmark

Denmark

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. Hemmet has a town population of 364 (1 January 2011) and a parish population of 622 (1 January 2011). The word "Hemmet" derives from prior Danish, meaning "The home".

Education

In the early 1990s, the town of Hemmet had a school, but it was abolished since it was deemed too small. Afterwards, pupils from Hemmet had to attend the private Christian school in Sønder Vium, 4 km east of Hemmet or the public school 5 km south of Hemmet located in Nørre Bork, where the "Bork Havn Musikfestival" is staged. In Hemmet there is a kindergarten, holding around 100 pupils

Nearby schools

• Sdr. Vium Friskole
• Bork Skole
• Tarm Skole - Overbygningen
• Tarm Skole - Byskolen

Events

Hemmet has its own harbor, which is about 1000 m² large. At the harbor, each summer a havnefest (harbour feast) is held.

The town has a football team playing in the 6th series of Danish football. It shares its name with the nearby city of Sønder Vium, which Hemmet also bonds with. The football team is called "HSV IF", formerly "HSV '82".

Religion

Hemmet has a church, which is known by many Christians in the area, because of the priest Martin Jensen. He is known because of his inner mission

The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark

The Churchly Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark , or in short Inner Mission is a conservative Lutheran Christian organisation in Denmark. It is the largest revival movement within the Danish National Church. Despite its name, people do not belong to the Inner Mission as members separate...

way of speaking. Not all citizens in Hemmet are Christians though.

External links

• Hemmet's own homepage
• Hemmet parish