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Haslev

Coordinates:55°20′N11°58′E/ 55.333°N 11.967°E/55.333; 11.967
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Haslev
Town
Haslev Church in Haslev
Haslev Churchin Haslev
Haslev is located in Denmark
Haslev
Haslev
Location in Denmark
Haslev is located in Denmark Region Zealand
Haslev
Haslev
Haslev (Denmark Region Zealand)
Coordinates:55°20′N11°58′E/ 55.333°N 11.967°E/55.333; 11.967
CountryDenmark
RegionZealand (Sjælland)
MunicipalityFaxe
Area
• Urban
6.8 km2(2.6 sq mi)
Population
(2024)
•Urban
12,488
• Urban density1,800/km2(4,800/sq mi)
• Gender[1]
6,187 males and 6,301 females
DemonymHaslevit
Time zoneUTC+1(CET)
• Summer (DST)UTC+2(CEST)
Postal code
DK-4690 Haslev

Haslevis arailway townin the southern part of the island ofZealand,Denmark,located about 60 km (37 mi) southwest ofCopenhagen.It has a population of 12,488 (1 January 2024),[2]and is the largest town inFaxe MunicipalityinRegion Zealand.

Haslev has six public schools: two boarding schools, a folk high school, a technical school, a college of education, and a sixth-form college.

The estates and castles ofGisselfeldandBregentvedare close to Haslev.

History

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Haslev started out being a small village named Hasle with a few houses and streets surrounding thechurch.It is mentioned for the first time in 1328 asHaslæand in theBishop of Roskilde'sUrbarium1370-80 asHasleandHaslæ.[3]The name was later changed to Haslev to avoid confusion with other similar town names in Denmark.

In 1870, therailway line passing Haslev townwas inaugurated. At that time, Haslev had only 653 inhabitants. A street named Jernbanegade (Railway Street) was paved, to connect the church with the newly built train station. In the years that followed, the street became the main street of the town with shops, banks and so forth. In 1911, the town had 3,668 inhabitants. In the 1980s, a square in the middle of the street was constructed.

During the 20th century Haslev grew rapidly, becoming a center forthe Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark.The latter built a folk high school, sixth-form college (with a boarding school) among others. In the 1970s and 1980s, the schools became independent of the founding association. Today, there are only few remains of the Inner Mission in Haslev.

In the early 1970s and onwards, an entrepreneur named Ole Christiansen founded whole new neighbourhoods of one-family houses with an attached garden at a low expense. This encouraged many families from all over Zealand, and especially Copenhagen, to move to Haslev.

Nobel-Prize winnerJens Christian Skoustudied at Haslev Gymnasium (college) in his youth. In 1997, he received theNobel Prize in Chemistryfor his discovery ofNa+,K+-ATPase

Prior to 1 January 2007, Haslev was a town inHaslev Municipality(kommune). On 1 January 2007 Haslev as the result ofKommunalreformen( "The Municipal Reform" of 2007),became a town in Faxe municipality.

Transport

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Haslev railway station

Haslev is served byHaslev railway stationwhich is connected toKøgeandNæstvedand the rest of theDanish rail networkby theLittle Southrailway line.[4]Busses run from the station to neighbouring towns, villages and areas.

European road E47passes a short distance east of Haslev.

Notable people

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Jesper Bodilsen, 2017

References

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  1. ^BY1: Population 1. January by urban areas, age and sexThe Mobile Statbank fromStatistics Denmark
  2. ^BY3: Population 1. January by urban areas, area and population densityThe Mobile Statbank fromStatistics Denmark
  3. ^Søndergaard, Bent (1972).Indledende studier over den nordiske stednavnetype lev (lov).Navnestudier udgivet af Institut for Navneforskning (in Danish). Vol. 10. Copenhagen. p. 18.{{cite book}}:CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^"Haslev Station"(in Danish).DSB.Retrieved18 May2024.
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