Sæby

Seal of Saeby, 1584, by J.Th Hansen

Sæby is a town and seaport located on the east coast of the historical region of Vendsyssel in the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The town is located in Frederikshavn municipality in Region Nordjylland. It has a population of 8,803 (1 January 2014).^[1] Sæby was granted market rights in 1524.

History

Until 2007 Sæby was the main town in Sæby municipality. Since 2007 part of Frederikshavn municipality.

Sæby Glassblowing Workshop
Sæby Harbour
Sæby Church
Fruen fra Havet: 6,25 m. high statue standing on the pier at the entrance to Sæby harbour. The statue was made by artist Marit Benthe Norheim and it was inaugurated in 2001.
Sæby Museum
Sæby Old Town
Sæby Teddies (two persons in teddy-bear costumes)
Sæby Watermill
Sæbygaard Manor: A manor house from the renaissance. Inside there is a small museum with exhibitions of historical furniture.
Sæby Beach
Sæby Townsquare

Sophus Frederik Kühnel, 1911

Jacob Severin (1691–1753) a Danish merchant who held a trade monopoly on Greenland from 1733 to 1749
Sophus Frederik Kühnel (1851–1930) a Danish architect, designed Mejlborg and a number of other buildings in Aarhus
Adam Giede Böving (1869–1957) a Danish-American entomologist and zoologist, studied the larvae of the order Coleoptera
Henry Holst (1899–1991) a Danish violinist, variously at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Manchester College of Music, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
Carl Ottosen (1918 – 1972 in Saeby) a Danish actor, screenwriter and film director, appearing in 70 films
Walter Kuhlman (1918–2009) an American painter and printmaker, linked to Abstract Expressionism and American Figurative Expressionism, brought up in Sæby
Jørgen Rømer (1923–2007) a Danish art historian, graphic artist and painter
Lene Siel (born 1968) a Danish singer
Merete Pedersen (born 1973) a Danish former football striker and member of the Danish national team for 16 years
Rasmus Thellufsen (born 1997) a Danish footballer, playing for AaB

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