Tønder Municipality
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Tønder Municipality (Template:Langx, Template:Langx, Template:Langx) is a kommune in the Region of Southern Denmark on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 1,252 km2, and has a total population of 36,399 (2025). Its mayor is Jørgen Popp Petersen, a member of the regional Schleswig Party.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The main town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Tønder. It consists of six old municipalities, the former Tønder municipality (1970-2006) with 12,706 inhabitants in January 2000 on 184.59 square kilometers among them.
Subdivision
The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a Template:Lang ("Municipal Reform") that merged a number of existing parishes:
- Abild Parish
- Hostrup Parish
- Møgeltønder Parish
- Tønder Parish
- Ubjerg Parish
Locations
| Tønder | 7,500 |
| Løgumkloster | 3,500 |
| Toftlund | 3,200 |
| Skærbæk | 3,100 |
| Bredebro | 1,400 |
| Agerskov | 1,200 |
| Højer | 1,100 |
| Møgeltønder | 800 |
| Abild | 500 |
| Template:Ill | 500 |
| Template:Ill | 450 |
| Template:Ill | 450 |
| Brøns | 400 |
| Template:Ill | 350 |
| Døstrup | 350 |
| Template:Ill | 300 |
| Template:Ill | 300 |
| Template:Ill | 270 |
| Havneby | 270 |
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History
On 1 January 2007, Tønder municipality was enlarged as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007) when the Bredebro, Højer, Løgumkloster, Nørre-Rangstrup (without Bevtoft Parish), and Skærbæk municipalities were merged into the new Tønder municipality.
Politics
Tønder's municipal council consists of 31 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has nine political committees.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Municipal council
Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.
| Election | Party | Total seats |
Turnout | Elected mayor | |||||||||||
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| [[Social Democrats (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Conservative People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[New Right (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Socialist People's Party (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Liberal Alliance (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Christian Democrats (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | Template:Tooltip | [[Danish People's Party|Template:Font color]] | [[Schleswig Party|Template:Font color]] | Template:Tooltip | [[Venstre (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | [[Red-Green Alliance (Denmark)|Template:Font color]] | ||||
| 2005 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 31 | 73.0% | Vagn Terkel Pedersen (V) | |||||
| 2009 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 68.1% | Template:Ill (V) | |||||||
| 2013 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 73.3% | ||||||
| 2017 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 72.0% | Henrik Frandsen (V) | ||||
| 2021 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 69.8% | Template:Ill (S) | |||||
| Data from Kmdvalg.dk 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017 and 2021 | |||||||||||||||
North Schleswig Germans
Tønder Municipality is home to the only officially recognised ethno-linguistic minority of Denmark proper, the North Schleswig Germans. This minority makes up about 6% of the total population of the municipalities of Aabenraa/Apenrade, Haderslev/Hadersleben, Sønderborg/Sonderburg and Tønder/Tondern. In these four municipalities, the German minority enjoys certain linguistic rights in accordance with the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
References
- Municipal statistics: Danmarks Statistik kommunefakta, delivered from DST.dk
- Municipal mergers and neighbors: Eniro new municipalities map
External links
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