Time zone CET (UTC+1) Website www.halsnaes.dk Population 30,644 (1 Apr 2014) | Municipal code 260 Area 122.2 km² | |
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Points of interest Knud Rasmussens House, The Gunpowder Mill Muse, Auderødlejren, Havtyren, Industrimuseet Frederiks Værk | ||
Halsnæs Kommune is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Hovedstaden ("Capital Region"). The municipality covers an area of 122.15 km² (2013), according to Municipal Key Figures (De Kommunale Nøgletal (www.noegletal.dk)), and has a total population of 30,644 (1 April 2014). Its name comes from Halsnæs, the peninsula that forms the western part of the municipality.
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Map of Halsn%C3%A6s Municipality, Denmark
The municipality was created on January 1, 2007 as a merger of the former municipalities of Frederiksværk and Hundested. At first the merged municipality wore the hyphenated name Frederiksværk-Hundested, but it was changed to Halsnæs on January 1, 2008. Its mayor as of 1 January 2014 is Steen Hasselriis, a member of the Venstre political party.
Geography
Lake Arresø, the largest lake in Denmark, has its western part in the municipality. Originally a fjord connected to Kattegat, it was landlocked when the land northwest of the lake rose by 5 meters in the last ice age. In 1717, by royal order a canal was built (finished in 1719) to connect the lake with Roskilde fjord. The construction of the canal was necessary because the natural stream (Danish:å) from the lake to the fjord was filling up with sand. The water in the newly built canal was harnessed by a watermill, and the town of Frederiksværk basically was created through industrialization.
Urban areas
The ten largest urban areas in the municipality are: