Skjern Municipality is a former 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

This is a list of Municipalities of Denmark.-Region Hovedstaden:* Albertslund Municipality* Allerød Municipality* Ballerup Municipality* Bornholm Regional Municipality* Brøndby Municipality* Copenhagen Municipality* Dragør Municipality* Egedal Municipality...

) in 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,...

 in Region Midtjylland

Region Midtjylland

Central Denmark Region or Central Jutland Region is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger...

 near the west coast of the Jutland

Jutland

Jutland , historically also called Cimbria, is the name of the peninsula that juts out in Northern Europe toward the rest of Scandinavia, forming the mainland part of Denmark. It has the North Sea to its west, Kattegat and Skagerrak to its north, the Baltic Sea to its east, and the Danish–German...

 peninsula in west Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. The former Skjern municipality covered an area of 327 km², and had a total population of 13,107 (2005).
The city has a population of 7,563 inhabitants.

The main town was Skjern

Skjern, Denmark

Skjern is a railway town located in western Jutland, Denmark with a population of 7,665 . It was the main town in now abolished Skjern Municipality. From 2007 it is, with Ringkøbing, the co-administrative seat of Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality....

.

Skjern municipality was created in 1970 due to a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that combined the following, existing parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

es:

• Bølling Parish
• Dejbjerg Parish
• Faster Parish
• Fjelstervang Parish
• Hanning Parish
• Skjern Parish
• Stavning Parish
• Sædding Parish
• Sønder Borris Parish

On January 1, 2007 Skjern Municipality ceased to exist due to Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with existing Egvad

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...

, Holmsland

Holmsland

Until January 1, 2007 Holmsland was a municipality in Ringkjøbing County on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark...

, Ringkøbing

Ringkøbing

Ringkøbing is a town in Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality in Region Midtjylland on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The town has a population of 9,742 .-History:...

, and Videbæk

Videbæk

Videbæk is a town and a former municipality in Ringkøbing-Skjern municipality, Region Midtjylland. The town is close to Ringkøbing Fjord on the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The former Videbæk municipality covered an area of 289 km², and had a total population of 12,140...

 municipalities to form the new 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,...

. This created a municipality with an area of 1,485 km² and a total population of 57,818 (2005).

External links

• The municipality's official cooperation and tourism information website