Halsnæs Municipality


Halsnæs Kommune is a municipality in Region Hovedstaden. The municipality covers an area of 122.15 km², according to Municipal Key Figures, and has a total population of 30,644.
Its name comes from Halsnæs, the peninsula that forms the western part of the municipality.
The municipality was created on 1 January 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 1 January 2008. Its mayor, as of 1 January 2018, is Steffen Jensen, a member of the Social Democrats political party.

Geography

, 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 to connect the lake with Roskilde fjord. The construction of the canal was necessary because the natural stream 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:
#LocalityPopulation
1Frederiksværk12,257
2Hundested8,861
3Liseleje2.580
4Ølsted1,863
5Vinderød1,033
6Melby792
7Evetofte368
8Torup321
9Ølsted Sydstrand250
10Ølsted Strandhuse220

Landmarks