Broager (; ) is a town with a population of 3,227 (1 January 2025)BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density
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Statistics Denmark Statistics Denmark () is a Danish governmental organization under the Ministry of the Interior and Housing, reporting to the Minister of Economic and Internal Affairs. The organization is responsible for creating statistics on the Danish society ...

Sønderborg Municipality Sønderborg Municipality (, ), is a '' kommune'' in the Region of Southern Denmark partially on the Jutland peninsula and partially on the island of Als in south Denmark, at the border with Germany. The municipality covers an area of , and has a po ...

Region of Southern Denmark The Region of Southern Denmark (, ; , ; ) is an administrative region of Denmark established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which abolished the traditional counties ("amter") and set up five larger regions ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

. It lies on the Broager Peninsula and is therefore surrounded by water on three sides, the waters of Flensborg Fjord leading into the

Baltic Sea The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the ...

. The town of Broager lies in the middle of the peninsula by a major road, which leads to the Egernsund Bridge, which crosses over the Egern Strait to the Jutland mainland. The town's two-towered church is its most important landmark. The town was part of

Broager Municipality Broager Municipality is a former Danish municipality ( Danish, '' kommune''). The municipality covered an area of 43 km2, and had a total population of 6,290 (2005). Its last mayor was Jørn Lehmann Petersen, a member of the Social Democrats ...

until 2007 when it became part of the larger

Notable people

* Ludvig Harboe (1709 in Broager – 1783) a Danish theologian and bishop. *

Peter Jebsen Peter Jebsen ( 6 May 1824 – 30 October 1892) was a Norway, Norwegian businessperson and politician. He was the founder of Dale of Norway. Background Jebsen was born at Broager in the Duchy of Schleswig. He was the son of Jens Jebsen (1778� ...

(1824 in Broager – 1892) a Norwegian businessperson and politician, founded the

Dale of Norway Dale of Norway is a Norwegian clothing brand known for their production of high-quality pure wool knitwear. The textile factory for the company is located at the village of Dale, Hordaland, Dale in Vaksdal Municipality, about east of the city of ...

, a clothing brand of high quality knitwear

References

{{Authority control Cities and towns in the Region of Southern Denmark Sønderborg Municipality