Skærbæk Municipality

Skærbæk Municipality Skærbæk Kommune
Former Municipality
The former townhall of Skærbæk Municipality.
Country	Denmark
County	South Jutland County
Formed	1970
Dissolved	2007
Area
• Total	360 km2 (140 sq mi)
Population  (2005)
• Total	7,294

Skærbæk Municipality was a municipality in Southern Jutland. It covered an area of 360 square kilometres (140 sq mi) 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. This created a municipality with an area of 1,352 square kilometres (522 sq mi) and a total population of 42,645 (2005).

The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing parishes: Brøns Parish, Døstrup Parish, Mjolden Parish, Rejsby Parish, Rømø Parish, Skærbæk Parish, and Vodder Parish. The municipal seat was the town of Skærbæk. The municipality included the island of Rømø, the southernmost of Denmark's part of the North Frisian Islands.

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 from KMD aka Kommunedata (Municipal Data)
• Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map