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Frederikssund Municipality

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Frederikssund Kommune () is a municipality () on the shores of Roskilde Fjord in the northern part of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. On 1 January 2007, the municipality was enlarged to include the old Jægerspris, Slangerup, and Skibby municipalities. It now covers an area of 250 km2 and has a population of 47,052 (1. January 2025). As of 1 January 2014 its mayor is John Schmidt Andersen, a member of the agrarian liberal Venstre political party. Frederikssund municipality belongs to Region Hovedstaden (Capital Region).

The seat of its municipal council is the town of Frederikssund with a population of 15,283 (1 January 2009). The town is connected to the Hornsherred peninsula by the Kronprins Frederik bridge. The former municipalities of Jægerspris and Skibby are located on this peninsula.

Locations

The ten largest locations in the municipality are:

Nr (#)	City	Population (2011)
1	Frederikssund	15,468
2	Slangerup	6,822
3	Jægerspris	4,065
4	Skibby	3,185
5	Græse Bakkeby	2,368
6	Kulhuse	912
7	Skuldelev	905
8	Gerlev	783
9	Store Rørbæk	570
10	Over Dråby Strand	442

Politics

Municipal council

Frederikssund's municipal council consists of 23 members, elected every four years.

Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

Election	Party	Total
seats	Turnout	Elected
mayor
[](social-democrats-denmark)	[](danish-social-liberal-party)	[](conservative-people-s-party-denmark)	****	[](socialist-people-s-party-denmark)
2005	13	1	3
2009	10		3	3
2013	8	1	1	1
2017	8	1	1
Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017

Recent developments

The new harbour square provides the finishing touches to the harbour developments which began in the 1990s. There are also ambitious plans to build a new residential development to the south of Frederikssund in Vinge north of Store Rørbæk. Vinge Station on the C line of the S-train was opened 14 December 2020.

Twin towns – sister cities

Frederikssund is twinned with:

NOR Aurskog-Høland, Norway
ESP Catoira, Spain
POL Kowary, Poland
SWE Kumla, Sweden
ENG Ramsgate, England, United Kingdom
FIN Sipoo, Finland
ENG Somerset, England, United Kingdom

Gallery

Minolta-65-02 filtered.jpg|Frederikssund's main pedestrian street Jægerspris slot.jpg|Jægerspris Castle Danish sailboats.jpg|Kulhuse

References

[https://m.statbank.dk/TableInfo/BY2?lang=en BY2: Population 1. January by municipalities] The Mobile Statbank from [[Statistics Denmark]]
[http://www.statistikbanken.dk/BEF44 "BEF44: Population 1st January, by urban areas"] database from [[Statistics Denmark]]
[http://enhr2006-ljubljana.uirs.si/publish/W20_Hedvig%20Vestergaard.pdf New Town in the Øresund Region - housing potential in the new town next to Frederikssund] {{Webarchive. link. (16 June 2007 - Paper presented at the ENHR conference, Ljubljana July 2006 Retrieved 9 January 2007.)
"Internationale samarbejder". Frederikssund Kommune.

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