Lejre Municipality

Lejre Municipality is a kommune in the of . The current municipality was established on 1 January 2007 as a result of Kommunalreformen, merging the former Lejre Municipality with and to form a new Lejre Municipality.
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  • Type: municipality of Denmark with 26,800 residents
  • Description: municipality of Denmark
  • Also known as: “350”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sagnlandet Lejre and Lindholm.

Museum
Photo: Per Meistrup, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Lejre Land of Legends is an open-air archaeology museum on the island of in Denmark. It is situated 4 km northwest of the town of and 1 km west of Gammel Lejre, which was a major political centre in Iron Age Scandinavia.

Manor estate
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is a manor house and estate located in Lejre Municipality, between and , some 30 kilometres west of , . It has been owned by members of the von Plassen family since 1728 and is now part of the Londholm- estate.

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lejre and Gevninge.

Village
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is a railway town in the northwestern part of the island of Zealand in eastern . It has a population of 3,347. The town is located in Municipality in . The town's Old Norse name was Hleiðr or Hleiðargarðr. is situated 4½ km southeast of Lejre Municipality.

Village
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is a small town, with a population of 1,636, in Lejre Municipality on the island of Zealand in . Its old section is located alongside a small river, Lejre Å, approximately 2 kilometres from its mouth at .

Village
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or Kirke Saaby is a small town, with a population of 1,649, in Lejre Municipality, in . It is located 30 km south of , 19 km west of , 17 km southeast of and 5 km north of the municipal seat .

Lejre Municipality

Latitude
55.6338° or 55° 38′ 2″ north
Longitude
11.9223° or 11° 55′ 20″ east
Population
26,800
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
Open location code
9F7HJWMC+FW
Geo­Names ID
2617831
Wiki­data ID
Q505369
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Western Frisian—“Lejre Municipality” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Լայրե”
  • Asturian: “Lejre (conceyu)”
  • Asturian: “Lejre”
  • Azerbaijani: “Layre”
  • Basque: “Lejre”
  • Belarusian: “Лайрэ”
  • Belarusian: “Ляйрэ”
  • Catalan: “municipi de Lejre”
  • Catalan: “Municipi de Lejre”
  • Cebuano: “Lejre Kommune”
  • Chinese: “Lejre Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “莱尔市镇”
  • Chinese: “萊爾市鎮”
  • Chinese: “雷尔市镇”
  • Croatian: “Lejre (općina)”
  • Croatian: “Lejre”
  • Danish: “Lejre Kommune”
  • Danish: “Ny Lejre Kommune”
  • Dutch: “Lejre”
  • Esperanto: “Lejre”
  • Faroese: “Lejre kommuna”
  • Finnish: “Lejren kunta”
  • French: “Lejre”
  • Georgian: “ლეირეს მუნიციპალიტეტი”
  • German: “Lejre Kommune”
  • Hungarian: “Lejre község”
  • Icelandic: “Lejre Kommune”
  • Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Lejre”
  • Italian: “comune di Lejre”
  • Italian: “Comune di Lejre”
  • Japanese: “ライラ市”
  • Japanese: “レイレ市”
  • Korean: “라이레시”
  • Lombard: “Comun de Lejre”
  • Low German: “Kommun Lejre”
  • Mazanderani: “لیره شهرستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lejre Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Northern Frisian: “Lejre Komuun”
  • Northern Sami: “Lejre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lejre kommune”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lejre”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ny Lejre kommune”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lejre kommune”
  • Norwegian: “Lejre kommune”
  • Polish: “Gmina Lejre”
  • Polish: “Lejre Kommune”
  • Portuguese: “Lejre”
  • Romanian: “Comuna Lejre”
  • Russian: “Лайре”
  • Spanish: “Lejre”
  • Swedish: “Lejre kommun”
  • Turkish: “Lejre”
  • Ukrainian: “Лайре”
  • Venetian: “Comun de Lejre”
  • Welsh: “Bwrdeistref Lejre”
  • Western Frisian: “Lejre”

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