Skærbæk Municipality was a municipality in

Southern Jutland Southern Jutland (; ) is the region south of the Kongeå in Jutland, Denmark and north of the Eider (river) in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The region north of the Kongeå is called . Both territories had their own ting assemblies in the Mi ...

. It covered an area of and had a total population of 7,294 (2005). The municipality ceased to exist as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007) when it was merged with Bredebro, Højer, Løgumkloster, Nørre-Rangstrup, and Tønder municipalities to form the new

Tønder Municipality Tønder (; ) is a town in the Region of Southern Denmark. With a population of 7,477 (as of 1 January 2025), it is the main town and the administrative seat of the Tønder Municipality. History The first mention of Tønder might have been in th ...

. This created a municipality with an area of and a total population of 42,645 (2005). The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing

parishes A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...

: Brøns Parish, Døstrup Parish, Mjolden Parish, , Rømø Parish, Skærbæk Parish, and Vodder Parish. The municipal seat was the town of Skærbæk. The municipality included the island of

Rømø Rømø (, ) is a Danish island in the Wadden Sea. Rømø is part of Tønder Municipality. The island had 650 inhabitants as of 1 January 2011,

, the southernmost of Denmark's part of the

North Frisian Islands The North Frisian Islands (, ; ''Öömrang'' and ''Fering'' ; ''Söl'ring'' ; ) are the Frisian Islands off the coast of North Frisia. The term covers both the North Frisian Islands in the narrow sense (in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) and the Dan ...

Notable people

* Jeppe Prætorius (1745 in Skærbæk – 1823) a Danish merchant and shipowner * Jannik Petersen Bjerrum (1851 in Skærbæk – 1920) a Danish ophthalmologist * Kirstine Meyer (1861 in Skærbæk – 1941) a Danish physicist * Kenneth Fabricius (born 1981 in Skærbæk) a Danish professional footballer

References

* Municipal statistics
NetBorger Kommunefakta
delivered fro
KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
* Municipal mergers and neighbors
Eniro new municipalities map
Former municipalities of Denmark Tønder Municipality {{SouthernDK-stub