Aabenraa Municipality ( Danish : Aabenraa Kommune , German : Kommune Apenrade ) is a kommune in the Region of Southern Denmark in southwestern Denmark . The municipality has an area of 940.7 km and a total population of 58,657 (2024). Its largest town and the site of its municipal council is the city of Aabenraa . The mayor of the municipality is Jan Riber Jakobsen, representing the Conservative People's Party .
6-541: The island of Barsø is located in the northeast corner of the municipality in the Little Belt . Major communities include Lundsbjerg near the capital, Aabenraa; Sogard to the south, Felsted to the east, and Løjt Kirkeby to the north. Løjt Kirkeby is connected by ferry service from the island of Barsø . From 1864 to 1920, the region was part of Prussia , in the Province of Schleswig-Holstein , and as such part of
12-477: A member of the Venstre (Liberal Party) political party . A new Aabenraa municipality was formed on 1 January 2007 as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007) where the former municipality merged with Bov , Lundtoft , Rødekro , and Tinglev . Aabenraa's municipal council consists of 31 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has nine political committees. Below are
18-717: The North German Confederation and, from 1871 onwards, part of the German Empire . It was formerly the seat of, respectively the German Kreis Apenrade and the Danish Aabenraa County . The 1970-2006 Aabenraa municipality was bordered by the municipality of Lundtoft to the south and east, and Rødekro and Tinglev to the west. As it was partially located on a peninsula, it was surrounded by water on three sides: at
24-653: The German minority enjoys certain linguistic rights in accordance with the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages . The German-language daily Der Nordschleswiger is published in Aabenraa. Aabenraa is twinned with: Bars%C3%B8 Barsø is a small populated island which is part of the Aabenraa municipality (Danish, kommune) in South Jutland County on the east coast of
30-556: The municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007 . Aabenraa 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,
36-465: The southern side of the peninsula by Aabenraa Fjord opening up to the Little Belt east of the peninsula; at the northern side by Genner Bay ( Genner Bugt ). in South Jutland County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark . The municipality, including the island of Barsø , covered an area of 129 km with a total population of 22,132 (2005). Its last mayor was Poul Thomsen,
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