Denmark
Central Jutland
Aarhus Municipality

Town Hall

Aarhus City Hall is the city hall of , Denmark. The decision to build a new city hall was taken during a city hall meeting in 1937. The new building was inaugurated 2 June 1941, designed by architects Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller.
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  • Type: Town hall
  • Description: city hall
  • Also known as: “Aarhus City Hall”, “Arhus Radhus”, “Århus Rådhus”, and “Århus Town Hall”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include ARoS Art Museum and Aarhus Central Station.

Museum
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ARoS is an art museum in , . The museum was established in 1859 and is the oldest public art museum in Denmark outside Copenhagen. On 7 April 2004, ARoS opened with exhibitions in a brand new modern building, 10 stories tall with a total floor area of 20,700 m² and designed by Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen. is situated 280 metres northwest of Town Hall.

Railway station
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is the main railway station serving the city of , . Serving as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between and the rest of Denmark, the station is used by an average of 6.3 million people per year, making it the busiest station in Denmark outside the . is situated 280 metres south of Town Hall.

Park
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is a public park in central , . The park is situated by the City Hall in the Indre By neighborhood of , between the streets Frederiks Allé to the west and Park Allé to the east.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Midtbyen and Aarhus.

Neighborhood
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, also known as Aarhus Center or City, is the inner part of . is part of district Aarhus C, mainly with postal code 8000, together with Vesterbro, Trøjborg and and has a population of around 90000.

Photo: Dmitri Popov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the main city on the peninsula in . "City of Cafés" is a moniker the city wears with pride: its roster of coffeeshops exemplifies Aarhus' elegant mix of cosmopolitan city life and quaint small-town charm.

Neighborhood
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The in is the oldest part of the city and is itself part of the inner city. The quarter comprise the streets of Badstuegade, Klostergade, Volden, Studsgade, Borggade, Rosensgade, Mejlgade and Graven, with Pustervig Torv as the main square.

Town Hall

Latitude
56.15215° or 56° 9′ 8″ north
Longitude
10.20298° or 10° 12′ 11″ east
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Inception
1941
Open location code
9F8G5623+V5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 428972747
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­townhall
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6940240
Wiki­data ID
Q1323311
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Town Hall” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Aarhuseko udaletxea”
  • Catalan: “ajuntament d’Aarhus”
  • Catalan: “Ajuntament d’Aarhus”
  • Chinese: “奧胡斯市政廳”
  • Czech: “Aarhuská radnice”
  • Danish: “Aarhus Rådhus”
  • Danish: “Park Alle 2”
  • Danish: “Rådhuspladsen 2”
  • Dutch: “Aarhus City Hall”
  • Finnish: “Aarhusin raatihuone”
  • French: “hôtel de ville d’Aarhus”
  • French: “Hôtel de ville d’Aarhus”
  • German: “Rathaus Aarhus”
  • German: “Rathaus”
  • Greek: “Δημαρχείο του Ώρχους”
  • Indonesian: “Balai Kota Aarhus”
  • Italian: “Municipio di Aarhus”
  • Japanese: “オーフス市庁舎”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aarhus rådhus”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aarhus rådhus”
  • Norwegian: “Aarhus rådhus”
  • Russian: “Городская ратуша Орхуса”
  • Slovenian: “aarhuška mestna hiša”
  • Slovenian: “mestna hiša v Aarhusu”
  • Slovenian: “Mestna hiša, Aarhus”
  • Spanish: “Ayuntamiento de Aarhus”
  • Swedish: “Århus rådhus”
  • Swedish: “Århus stadshus”

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