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Gribskov Municipality
Gribskov Municipality () is a municipality (Danish language, Danish, ''Commune (subnational entity), kommune'') in the Capital Region of Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 278 km2, and has a total population of 41,797. The municipality was created on 1 January 2007 as a merger of the former municipalities of Græsted-Gilleleje and Helsinge (municipality), Helsinge. Its mayor as of 1 January 2018 is Anders Gerner Frost, a member of the local Nytgribskov Politics of Denmark, political party. Locations Politics Municipal council Gribskov's municipal council consists of 23 members, elected every four years. Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipalities of Denmark#Municipal Reform 2007, Municipal Reform of 2007. Attractions There is a large concentration of dolmens and tumuli within the municipality. Of special mention is 'Valby Hegn', a small plantation close to Helsinge and Gribskov and home to no less than seven tumuli, long barrows fr ...
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Municipalities Of Denmark
Denmark is divided into five regions of Denmark, regions, which contain 98 municipalities (, ; , ). The Capital Region of Denmark, Capital Region has 29 municipalities, Region of Southern Denmark, Southern Denmark 22, Central Denmark Region, Central Denmark 19, Region Zealand, Zealand 17 and North Denmark Region, North Denmark 11. The government intends to merge R. Hovedstaden with R. Sjælland 1 January 2027 to form Region Østdanmark (Region of Eastern Denmark). The regional council will have 47 members, and will be elected Tuesday 18 November 2025 in the ordinary 2025 Danish local elections. This structure was established per an administrative reform (Danish: ''Strukturreformen''; English: (''The'') ''Structural Reform'') of the public sector of Denmark, effective 26 June 2005 (council elections 15 November 2005), which abolished the 13 Counties of Denmark, counties (; singular ) and created five Regions of Denmark, regions (; singular ) which unlike the counties (1970–2006 ...
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Gilleleje
Gilleleje () is a fishing town and seaside resort on the north coast of the peninsula North Zealand, Denmark. The town is located at the northernmost point of the island of Zealand. It is one of the main towns of the Gribskov municipality in Region Hovedstaden in Denmark. As of 1 January 2025, it has a population of 6,596.BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density
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Etymology

The name ''Gilleleje'' is a combination of the archaic Danish language, Danish word ''gil'', which is a wiktionary:crevice, crevice or wiktionary:cleft, cleft, and ''leje'', which is a place where fishermen come in specific seasons to fish. It was probably shortened from Gilbjerg Leje, where Gilbjerg ("cl ...
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Mårum
Mårum is a town in the Gribskov Municipality in North Zealand, Denmark. It is located six kilometers east of Helsinge and four kilometers north of Kagerup Kagerup is a village in the Gribskov Municipality in North Zealand, Denmark. It is located six kilometers southeast of Helsinge and 10 kilometers north of Hillerød. As of 2025, it had a population of 392. Kagerup is served by Kagerup railway s .... As of 2025, it has a population of 222. References Cities and towns in the Capital Region of Denmark Gribskov Municipality {{CapitalDK-stub ...
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Annisse
Annisse is a town in the Gribskov Municipality in North Zealand, Denmark. It is located five kilometers south of Helsinge and 13 kilometers northwest of Hillerød Hillerød () is a Denmark, Danish town with a population of 36,604 (1 January 2025)Cities and towns in the Capital Region of Denmark Gribskov Municipality {{CapitalDK-stub ...
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Kagerup
Kagerup is a village in the Gribskov Municipality in North Zealand, Denmark. It is located six kilometers southeast of Helsinge and 10 kilometers north of Hillerød. As of 2025, it had a population of 392. Kagerup is served by Kagerup railway station, located on the Gribskov railway line, about west of the village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v .... References Cities and towns in the Capital Region of Denmark Gribskov Municipality {{CapitalDK-stub ...
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Rågeleje
Rågeleje is a former fishing village and popular tourist resort on the north coast of Zealand, midway between Gilleleje and Tisvildeleje, some 50 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark. As of 2024, it had a population of 700. History The fishing village The name Rågeleje was first mentioned in 1582 in the form Raageleie, meaning the harbour of Råge (1211 Roka), a no longer existing settlement. Rågeleje remained a quiet fishing community where the families supplemented their income with a bit of sheep herding until the late 19th century. The fishing village was located at the mouth of the Højbro Stream. The fisherman on the west side of the stream was traditionally known as the Vejby fishermen while the ones on the east side were known as the Hesselbjerg fishermen. Rågeleje had 55 residents in 1890 of which 13 were fishermen. The number of residents had by 1911 declined to 34 of which 10 were fishermen. 1910s: New residents The first tourists began to arrive at the turn of the 2 ...
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Munkerup
Munkerup is a coastal district of Hornbæk-Dronningmølle in the north of Zealand, Denmark. It is located in Gribskov Municipality, two kilometres to the west of Dronningmølle and four kilometres east of Gilleleje. In 2009, Munkerup had a population of 791. History The name of the locality is first documented as "Munnckerup" in 1582. In the so-called Markbogen 1681, Munkerup is listed as consisting of two half farms and two rural houses in Tornbakke and three rural houses in Hulerød. Munkerup began to develop as a coastal resort around 1920 when artists such as Carl Locher and Holger Drachmann began to visit. Around 1936, the first summer houses began to appear around Grøndahlsvej but it was in the 1950s and 1960s that they really became popular in the area. The fashionable seaside hotel Hulerød Badehotel attracted guests from Copenhagen. Some, like the architect Poul Henningsen, built their own summer houses. In the mid-1930s, Munkerup Children's Sanatorium (''Munkerup Børn ...
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Vejby, Gribskov Municipality
Vejby is a parish and small town in Gribskov Municipality, near Zealand's Kattegat coast, some 50 km north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The town of Vejby is located three kilometres east of Tisvilde and three kilometres south of Rågeleje, both popular coastal resorts, and seven kilometres north of Helsinge. Vejby railway station is located on the Tisvilde branch of the Gribskovbanen, Gribskov Railway and is served by Lokaltog. The town's most notable landmark is its 12th-century church. Vejby Strand (Vejby Beach) is a summer house area. History Middle Ages Vejby is first mentioned in King Valdemar's Census Book from the beginning of the 13th century. The name means "town by a road". Most of the parish, which had some of the best soil in North Zealand, belonged to Esrum Abbey, although Æbelholt Abbey owned some property in the village of Ørby. The village was one of the most prosperous in Holbro Herred as witnessed by tax lists from the 16th century. The prosperity of the village ...
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Esbønderup
Esbønderup is a parish and small town situated north of Lake Esrum in Gribskov Municipality, North Zealand. some north of Copenhagen, Denmark. As of 1 January 2025, it had a population of 1,413. History The name is known from 1178 as ''Esbiornsthorp'', derived from the male name Esbiorn (Esben) and the suffix '' -thorp''. Other villages in the parish of Esbønderup were Esrum (1100: ''Esrom''), Saltrup (1359: ''Salthorp''), Villingebæk (1100: ''Widelingbec'') and Villingerød 1178: ''Withlingeruth''). The second doctor in Kronborg County was stationed in Esbønderup in 1738. Kronborg County Hospital (''Kronborg Amtssygehus'') opened in 1866 at the initiative of Friederich Carl von Gram, two years before Frederiks Hospital opened in Copenhagen. It was a small building, nine bays long and three bays wide, half timbered and with a straw roof. A public hospital was not opened in Helsingør until 1764. It was only used by the poor while people with means received treatment in their ...
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Blistrup
Blistrup is a town in the Gribskov Municipality in North Zealand North Zealand, also North Sealand (), refers to the northeastern part of the Danish island of Zealand. The Danish tourist authorities have recently introduced the term Danish Riviera to cover the area in view of its increasing importance for to ..., Denmark. As of 2025, it has a population of 1,156. References Cities and towns in the Capital Region of Denmark Gribskov Municipality {{CapitalDK-stub ...
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Smidstrup
Smidstrup is a town in the Gribskov Municipality in North Zealand, Denmark. It is a coastal town and is located next to the Kattegat, four kilometers west of Gilleleje, three kilometers east of Vejby Strand and 12 kilometers north of Helsinge Helsinge is the municipal seat of Gribskov Municipality in Region Hovedstaden on Zealand in Denmark. As of 1 January 2025, it has a population of 9,719.
. As of 2025, it has a population of 1,156.


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Tisvilde
Tisvilde is a small town with a population of 1,385 (1 January 2024) BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density
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located on the north coast of the island (Sjælland) in in