Haslev, the largest town in Faxe municipality, lies in the southern part of Zealand, Denmark. About from Copenhagen, it has a population of 12,119 (1 January 2022).BY3: Population 1. January by urban areas, area and population density
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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 of Gisselfeld and Bregentved are close to Haslev.

History

Haslev started out being a small village named Hasle with a few houses and streets around the church. The name was changed to Haslev to avoid confusion with other similar town names in Denmark. In 1870, the railway line passing Haslev town was 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 for the 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 winner Jens Christian Skou studied at Haslev Gymnasium (college) in his youth. In 1997, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase Prior to 1 January 2007, Haslev was a town in Haslev Municipality ('' kommune''). On 1 January 2007 Haslev as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), became a town in Faxe municipality.

Notable people

Carl Emil Moltke Carl Emil Moltke (9 January 1773 – 19 March 1858) was a Danish diplomat and landowner. He owned Aagaard from 1804 and Nørager from 1837. Early life and education Moltke was born at Bregentved, the son of Adam Gottlob Moltke (1710–92) and ...

(1773 at Bregentved – 1858) a Danish diplomat and landowner * Emilie Ulrich (1872 in Frerslev – 1952) a Danish soprano who sang leading roles at the Royal Danish Opera from 1894 until 1917 *

Marianne Christiansen Marianne Christiansen (born June 18, 1963 in Haslev) is a Lutheran bishop in the Church of Denmark. Life Marianne Christiansen is the daughter of Bishop Henrik Christiansen and Sister of Helle Christiansen, Head of the Church of the Cross in Den ...

(born 1963 in Haslev) is a Lutheran Bishop in the Church of Denmark in the Diocese of Haderslev *

Jesper Bodilsen Jesper Bodilsen (born 5 January 1970) is a Danish jazz double bassist. Biography Bodilsen was born in Haslev, Denmark. He was a student of Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Since the end of the 1990s he worked regularly with Ed Thigpen, with whom ...

(born 1970 in Haslev) a Danish jazz double bassist *

Anders Egholm Anders Høyen Egholm (born May 15, 1983) is a Danish professional football defender, who plays for Varde IF as a player-assistant coach. Career On 6 November 2009, the central defender, with a contract expiring within the end of November 2009 ...

(born 1983 in Haslev) a Danish professional football defender, who plays for

SønderjyskE SønderjyskE is a Danish sport corporation. They have a football team ( SønderjyskE Fodbold, based in Haderslev), two handball teams ( SønderjyskE Håndbold, one male based in Sønderborg, one female based in Aabenraa) and an ice hockey t ...

Jonas Eika Jonas Eika Rasmussen (born 1991) is a Danish writer. He was born in Haslev, Denmark, in 1991. Eika made his literary debut in 2015, with the novel ''Lageret Huset Marie''. His next book was the short story collection ''Efter Solen'' from 2018, f ...

(born 1991) a Danish writer.

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