Vildbjerg is a

railway town A railway town, or railroad town, is a settlement that originated, or was expanded, as a result of a railway line being constructed there. North America During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporary, ...

with a population of 4,138 (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 ...

Herning Municipality Herning Municipality () is a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. The municipality covers an area of and has a population of 90,006 (1 January 2025). Its mayor is Dorte West, a me ...

Central Denmark Region The Central Denmark Region (), or more directly translated as the Central Jutland Region and sometimes simply Mid-Jutland, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish municipal reform. The refo ...

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 is situated 14.6 km northwest of

Herning Herning () is a Denmark, Danish town in the Central Denmark Region of the Jutland peninsula. It is the main town and the administrative seat of Herning Municipality. Herning has a population of 51,782 (1 January 2025)

and is served by

Vildbjerg railway station Vildbjerg station is a railway station serving the railway town of Vildbjerg in Jutland, Denmark. Vildbjerg station is located on the Vejle-Holstebro railway line. The station was opened in 1904 with the opening of the Herning-Holstebro section ...

. Vildbjerg was the municipal seat of the former

Trehøje Municipality Trehøje was a municipality ( Danish, '' kommune'') in Ringkjøbing County on the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 296 km2, and had a total population of 9,929 (2005). Its mayor was Svend Blæsbjerg, a me ...

until 1 January 2007. The town is known as the host town for ''Vildbjerg Cup'', an international youth football (soccer) tournament for boys and girls between 7 and 17 years old, organized by the local club Vildbjerg SF. Vildbjerg Church was built in 1905 on the remnants of a 12-century church. Vildbjerg School is a public school (Danish: folkeskole) in Vildbjerg. It was built in the period 2005-2006 and was the first primary school in Denmark to be built in a Public-Private-Partnership.Vildbjerg School
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Notable people

Henrik Risom Henrik Risom (born 24 July 1968) is a former Danish footballer who played as a midfielder for Vejle, Lyngby, Dynamo Dresden, Odense, Silkeborg IF, Stoke City and Aarhus GF. Career Risom was born in Vildbjerg and began his senior career with Ve ...

(born 1968), a Danish former footballer * Gudmund Hatt (1884–1960) a Danish archaeologist and cultural geographer

References

Cities and towns in the Central Denmark Region Herning Municipality {{CentralDK-stub