Korsør
Korsør is a Danish town and port. It is out on the Great Belt, on the Zealand side, just south of where the Great Belt Bridge lands. It was the site of the municipal council of Korsør municipality - today it is part of Slagelse municipality. It has a population of 14,608 (1 January 2020).[1]
Coat of arms
Formerly the main ferry port from Zealand to Funen, the town of Korsør is divided into two halves by the Korsør Nor inlet, with the northern part named Halsskov. Most of the historical southern part of Korsør (Korsør proper) is low-lying and prone to flooding.
History
Geography
Government and politics
Culture
The Korsør Biograf Teater, which opened in August 1908, is the world's oldest movie theater in continuous use that is still operating,[2]
Notable people
The Arts
Jens Baggesen, 1806
Line Kruuse, 2007
- Jens Baggesen (1764–1826) a major Danish poet, librettist, critic and comic writer [3]
- Aage Giødesen (1863–1939) a Danish painter of landscapes, portraits and marine subjects
- Urban Gad (1879–1947) a Danish film director and nephew of Paul Gauguin [4]
- Horace Parlan (1931 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 2017 in Korsør) an American hard bop and post-bop pianist and composer
- Pia Juul (born 1962) a Danish poet, prose writer and translator
- Paul Cunningham (born 1969) an English chef, lives in Korsør
- Line Kruuse, (Danish Wiki) (born 1982) a beauty queen who represented Denmark in Miss World 2007
Public Service & public thinking
- Hedevig Johanne Bagger (1740–1822) a Danish inn-keeper and postmaster
- Aksel Mikkelsen (1849 in Hjørring – 1929 in Korsør) a Danish educator [5] who introduced the Swedish system of sloyd schools into Denmark
- Aage Friis (1870–1949) a Danish historian and university lecturer
- Hans A. Hansen (1877–1949) emigrated to the US in 1899, an American sailor serving in the United States Navy during Boxer Rebellion who received the Medal of Honor for bravery
- Hedda Lundh (1921–2012) a Danish journalist and schoolteacher who, under the German occupation of Denmark in WWII, was a Danish resistance fighter
- Pia Adelsteen (born 1963) a politician who was a member of the Folketing from 2007 to 2019.
- Morten Storm (born 1976) a Danish former agent of the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) who operated in Islamic militant circles
Sport
- Brian Nielsen (born 1965) a former professional boxer who held the IBO heavyweight title
- Jim Larsen (born 1985) a retired Danish football player with over 200 club caps
- Casper Henningsen (born 1985) a Danish footballer player, with almost 300 club caps
Twin towns
References
- BY3: Population 1st January, by urban areas The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
- dr.dk - in Danish
- Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition, Volume III, Jens Emmanuel Baggesen retrieved 09 June 2020
- IMDb Database retrieved 09 June 2020
- The Encyclopedia Americana, Mikkelsen, Aksel retrieved 28 April 2018
External links
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Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Korsör. |
- Slagelse municipality website (In Danish)
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