Until January 1, 2007 Lunderskov municipality was a municipality (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...

, kommune

Municipalities of Denmark

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) in Vejle County

Vejle County

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 near the east coast of the Jutland

Jutland

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 peninsula in southeast Denmark

Denmark

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. 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

Venstre (Denmark)

VenstreThe party name is officially not translated into any other language, but is in English often referred to as the Liberal Party. Similar rules apply for the name of the party's youth wing Venstres Ungdom. , full name Venstre, Danmarks Liberale Parti , is the largest political party in Denmark...

 (Liberal Party) political party

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. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Lunderskov, located ca. halfway between the cities of Kolding

Kolding

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 and Vejen, just south of the Esbjerg

Esbjerg

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 Motorway.

The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing parish

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es:

• 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

Christiansfeld

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, Kolding

Kolding Municipality

Kolding municipality is a municipality in Region Syddanmark on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 640 km², and has a total population of 87,781 . Its mayor is Jørn Pedersen, a member of the Liberal Party political party...

, and Vamdrup

Vamdrup municipality

Until January 1, 2007 Vamdrup municipality was a municipality in the former Vejle County on the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 102 km², and had a total population of 7,456...

 municipalities to form a new Kolding municipality

Kolding Municipality

Kolding municipality is a municipality in Region Syddanmark on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in southeast Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 640 km², and has a total population of 87,781 . Its mayor is Jørn Pedersen, a member of the Liberal Party political party...

. 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.