Gladsaxe Municipality

Location in Denmark

Gladsaxe Kommune is a municipality (Danish, kommune) near Copenhagen in Region Hovedstaden on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 25 km², and has a total population of 62,562 (2008). Its mayor is Karin Søjberg Holst, a member of the Social Democrats (Socialdemokraterne) political party.

The site of its municipal council is the town of Buddinge. Other towns in the municipality are Gladsaxe, Søborg, Bagsværd, and Mørkhøj – but town limits are not distinguishable because the towns have grown together in an urban sprawl. Mørkhøj, Værebro in Bagsværd and Høje-Gladsaxe are larger housing projects and home to many immigrants and being typical for many concrete highrise suburbs in Copenhagen. Picture of Gladsaxe Heights:[1]

At Gladsaxe, there is a 206.5 metres tall guyed TV mast, which was built in 1955. It was the first TV transmission site in Denmark.

Gladsaxe municipality was not merged with other municipalities by 1 January 2007 as the result of nationwide Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007).

Twin towns

• Blankenese, Germany
• Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Germany
• Gagny, France
• Haabersti, Estonia
• Klagenfurt, Austria
• Koszalin, Poland
• Minden, Germany
• Narsaq, Greenland
• Neubrandenburg, Germany
• Pirkkala, Finland
• Paisley and Renfrewshire, United Kingdom
• Ski, Norway
• Solna, Sweden
• Split, Croatia
• Sutton, London, United Kingdom
• Taitō, Tokyo, Japan
• Veszprém, Hungary

External links

• Municipality's official website
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References

• Municipal statistics: NetBorger Kommunefakta, delivered from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
• Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map