• Source: Skjern Municipality

Skjern Municipality is a former municipality (Danish, kommune) in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality in Region Midtjylland near the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west 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 municipality was created in 1970 due to a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that combined the following, existing parishes:

Bølling Parish
Dejbjerg Parish
Faster Parish
Fjelstervang Parish
Hanning Parish
Skjern Parish
Stavning Parish
Sædding Parish
Sønder Borris Parish
On 1 January 2007 Skjern Municipality ceased to exist due to Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with existing Egvad, Holmsland, Ringkøbing, and Videbæk municipalities to form the new Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality. 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




References


Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
City population : Danmarks Statistik [1]

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Munisipalitas Lyngby-Taarbæk
• Munisipalitas Kopenhagen
• Pembagian administratif Denmark
• Skjern Municipality
• Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality
• Egvad Municipality
• Skjern, Denmark
• Videbæk
• Holmsland Municipality
• Skjern
• Lyne, Denmark
• Ringkøbing
• Agner Krarup Erlang