Sabro, Denmark


Sabro is a suburb of Aarhus in Denmark. Its population is 3,300. It is located in the west of Aarhus Municipality, approximately from central Aarhus.
Sabro has a sports club, football fields, a gym, grocery stores, hotels, a church, two recreation centres, a dentist, a health care center, a library and a public day school, Sabro Korsvejskolen.

Onomastics

The name was recorded in about 1150 as Sahebroch and in 1386 as Saubro; it possibly derives from Old Danish *saghi, "somewhat cut", referring to tree-felling, and brōk, "swamp".

History

Sabro was originally one of the smaller villages in the area, with a few houses and farms south and west of Sabro Church.
After the road between Aarhus and Viborg was built through the area around 1890, a small settlement developed at the crossroads about from the original village. In the mid-20th century the sogn councils of Borum-Lyngby, Lading and Sabro-Fårup decided to make this the location of a central school, Sabro Korsvejskolen, which was dedicated in 1964.
In the 1970s and 1980s the crossroads settlement and the original village merged, as part of a strong urban growth which has since continued eastwards, covering former agricultural land in the direction of the neighbouring village of Mundelstrup.