Skibet is a Danish town, with a population of 2,604 (2025),BY3: Population 1st January by urban areas, area and population density
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located west of the

municipal seat A municipal seat (Spanish: ; ) is the administrative center and seat of government of a municipality or civil parish, with other villages or towns subordinated. The term is used in Brazil, Colombia,Vejle Vejle () is a city in Denmark, in the southeast of the Jutland Peninsula at the head of Vejle Fjord, where the Vejle River and Grejs River and their valleys converge. It is the site of the councils of Vejle Municipality (''Municipalities of De ...

in the

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. The town lies at the bottom of a valley, where the road to Billund and

Grindsted Grindsted, with a population of 9,721 (1 January 2025),BY3: ...

(primary route 28) comes closest to

Vejle River Vejle River (, also called Sønderåen, "South River") is an approximately river in Vejle Municipality in Denmark. Its source is Engelsholm Lake near the village of Nørup. It first runs south to converge with the Egtved River near the village o ...

. The church building from 1150 AD is located in the southwestern corner of the town. The former manor Haraldskær, which is now a hotel, is located just outside of the town. Skibet had a small

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on the Vejle-Vandel-Grindsted railway, which was opened to Vandel in 1897 and extended to Grindsted in 1914. The line was closed in 1957, and the station building has been demolished, but on the line's route is the Bindeballestien, which is asphalted from Vejle to Ravning, from where it continues as a gravel path almost to Bindeballe Station.The Bindeballestien
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References

External links

Vejle Municipality

Local Council

The church

The School

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