Until 1 January 2007 Sallingsund municipality was a municipality (
Danish, ''
kommune'') in the former
Viborg County in the northwest of the Salling Peninsula, a part of the larger
Jutland peninsula in northwest
Denmark. The municipality covered an area of 99 km², and had a total population of 6,083 (2005). Its last mayor was Jens Jørn Justesen, a member of the
Venstre (Liberal Party)
political party. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Roslev.
The 1,717 meter long
Sallingsund Bridge, which opened on 30 May 1978, connects the towns of Sallingsund to the town of
Nykøbing Mors on the island of
Mors
Mors may refer to:
*Mors (mythology), the personification of death in Roman mythology
*Mors, Latin for death
*Mors (automobile), a French car manufacturer from 1895 to 1925
:* American Mors, Mors vehicles produced under licence in America by the S ...
, and then continues northwest to the island of Vendsyssel-Thy. Before the bridge was built there was a
train ferry connection over the strait from the town of Glyngøre to Nykøbing on the ship ''Pinen og Plagen'' ("The Torment and the Plague").
Sallingsund municipality was, as the result of
''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007), merged with
Spøttrup,
Sundsøre and
Skive municipalities to form the new Skive municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 682 km² and a total population of 48,368 (2005). The new municipality belongs to
Region Midtjylland ("Mid-Jutland Region").
References
* Municipal statistics
NetBorger Kommunefakta delivered fro
KMDaka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
* Municipal mergers and neighbors
Eniro new municipalities map
External links
Skive municipality's official website (Danish only)
{{coord missing, Denmark
Former municipalities of Denmark