Vojens () is a

railway town A railway town, or railroad town, is a settlement that originated, or was expanded, as a result of a railway line being constructed there. North America During the construction of the First transcontinental railroad in the 1860s, temporary, ...

in Denmark with a population of 7,424 (1 January 2025).BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density
The Mobile Statbank from

Statistics Denmark Statistics Denmark () is a Danish governmental organization under the Ministry of the Interior and Housing, reporting to the Minister of Economic and Internal Affairs. The organization is responsible for creating statistics on the Danish society ...

It was the main town of the now abolished

Vojens Municipality Vojens Municipality (), was a municipality (Danish language, Danish, ''Municipalities of Denmark, kommune'') in the former South Jutland County on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality, which existed from 1970 to 2006, covered an ...

, now the second largest town of

Haderslev Municipality Haderslev Municipality (, ) is a town and municipality on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in the Region of Southern Denmark. It includes the island of Årø as well as several other smaller islands in the Little Belt. The municipality cov ...

Region of Southern Denmark The Region of Southern Denmark (, ; , ; ) is an administrative region of Denmark established on Monday 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which abolished the traditional counties ("amter") and set up five larger regions ...

. Vojens is located 41 km east of

Ribe Ribe () is a town in south-west Jutland, Denmark, with a population of 8,367 (2025). It is the seat of the Diocese of Ribe. Until 1 January 2007, Ribe was the seat of both a surrounding municipality and county. It is now part of the enlarged E ...

, 33 km south of

Vejen Vejen with a population of 10,416 (1 January 2025) is the main town in Vejen Municipality, Denmark. Geography The town is situated in the Danish region of Region of Southern Denmark, Syddanmark between the cities of Kolding and Esbjerg. It is a ...

, 29 km north of

Aabenraa Aabenraa (; , ; South Jutlandic: ''Affenråe'', also known as Åbenrå) is a town in Southern Denmark, at the head of the Aabenraa Fjord, an arm of the Little Belt, north of the Denmark–Germany border and north of German town of Flensburg. It ...

and 14 km west of

Haderslev Haderslev (; ) is a Denmark, Danish town in the Region of Southern Denmark with a population of 22,405 (1 January 2025). Vojens Church is a reunion-church, from the beginning of the 1920s and was inaugurated on 6 September 1925. The church yard is older than the church and it was taken in use on 28 January 1878. In the middle of the churchyard, lies "the red chapel", which was built a few years after the churchyard was established and the chapel was taken in use in 1883.

Transportation

Vojens is served by

Vojens Airport Vojens Airport, also known as Skrydstrup Airport is an airport in Vojens, Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known ...

and Vojens station on the

Fredericia–Padborg railway line The Fredericia–Padborg railway line () is a long railway line in Denmark which runs through the historical region of Southern Jutland between the city of Fredericia and the Denmark-Germany border, German border at Padborg. Being one of the main ...

Sport

Speedway

Vojens has a rich history in

motorcycle speedway Motorcycle speedway, usually referred to simply as speedway, is a motorcycle sport involving four and sometimes up to six riders competing over four clockwise, anti-clockwise laps of an oval circuit. The motorcycles are specialist machines that ...

and hosted the World Final on two occasions (

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and

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

) at the

Vojens Speedway Center The Vojens Speedway Center is a Motorcycle speedway track located in Vojens, Denmark. The track has been part-owned since its opening by Denmark's first three time Speedway World Champion Ole Olsen. Track The Speedway Center is a long track ...

. The Speedway Center is part-owned by Denmark's first triple World Champion Ole Olsen, and has also hosted the

Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark The Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark is a motorcycle speedway event that is a part of the Speedway Grand Prix series (the world championship). The event was first held at the Vojens Speedway Center from 1995 to 2002 before switching to the Parken ...

as part of the

Speedway Grand Prix Speedway Grand Prix are a series of stand-alone motorcycle speedway events over the course of a season used to determine the Speedway World Champion. The series started in 1995 replacing the previous format of a single event final. The first ...

from 1995 to 2002 after which the SGP series moved the Danish GP to the

Parken Stadium Parken, currently known as Parken - Connected by 3 for sponsorship reasons, and as Telia Parken (2014–2020), is a Soccer-specific stadium, football stadium in the Indre Østerbro (''Inner Østerbro'') district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from ...

in Copenhagen. The Vojens Speedway Center also hosted the

Speedway World Team Cup The Speedway World Team Cup was an annual motorcycle speedway, speedway event held each year in different countries. The competition started in 1960 and was replaced with the Speedway World Cup in 2001. Format From 1960 until 1985, each team c ...

final in

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal en ...

(as Round 2 of a 3 Round Final),

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

and

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

. The World Team Cup was replaced with the

Speedway World Cup The Speedway World Cup is a motorcycle speedway event for national teams held in different countries. The first edition of the competition in the current format was held in 2001 and replaced the old Speedway World Team Cup, World Team Cup which ...

following 2000 and the Speedway Center hosted the

2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

and

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

finals. Also held were the

1979 Speedway World Pairs Championship The 1979 Speedway World Pairs Championship was the tenth Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme, FIM Speedway World Pairs Championship. The final took place in Vojens, Denmark. The championship was won by host Denmark national speedway tea ...

and the 1977 Under-21 European Championship. The Under-21 championship became the World Under-21 Championship in 1988 and Vojens hosted the 1999 Under-21 World Final.

Climate

Notable people

Hans Christian Schmidt Hans Christian Schmidt (born 25 August 1953) is a Danish politician, who is a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party. He is a teacher by profession, and has served as Denmark's Minister of Transport from 2010 to 2011 and again ...

(born 1953) a Danish politician and former Minister of Transport. A teacher by profession, he was the Danish Minister of Food from 2004 to 2007. Before that, he was the Minister for the Environment from 2001. He is a member of Venstre (the Danish Liberal Party). He is a longtime resident of the town of Vojens. * George Galbraith (born 1955) a Canadian-born Danish former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played for

Vojens IK Vojens () is a railway town in Denmark with a population of 7,424 (1 January 2025).Kurt Thiim Kurt Thiim (born 3 August 1956 in Vojens) is a Danish racing driver. After his karting career he raced in single-seaters from 1978 to 1984 before moving to the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft, DTM. He won the championship in his debut year in ...

(born 1956 in Vojens) a Danish race car driver, he raced in single-seaters from 1978 to 1984 * Kim Lykkeskov (born 1983 in Vojens) a Danish professional ice hockey player who participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship

References

External links

* {{Haderslev Municipality Cities and towns in the Region of Southern Denmark Haderslev Municipality