Silkeborg

Silkeborg is a lakeside railway town in founded in 1844 around a big paper mill at the Gudenå River, the longest and biggest river of Denmark. The name and history of the settlement goes back to at least the 15th century, though, when a castle by the name of Silkeborg was mentioned in written documents.
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  • Type: Town with 43,300 residents
  • Description: city in central Denmark
  • Postal code: 8600
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum Jorn and Silkeborg Museum.

Museum
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, Silkeborg, is an art museum by Gudenåen in Silkeborg, . The museum holds the collections that were developed by Asger Jorn from the early 1950s until his death in 1973, since when they have doubled in extent.

Museum
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is a museum of Danish cultural history with official state recognition based in , Denmark. Museum Silkeborg is located at three different sites: Manor House and the Paper Mill Museum in Silkeborg and Blicheregnen farm in the village of Thorning.

Railway station
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Silkeborg station is a railway station serving the town of Silkeborg in Central Jutland, . It is located in the centre of the town, on the southern edge of the historic town centre, and immediately adjacent to the Silkeborg bus station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Virklund.

Village
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is a town in , located about 5 km south of Silkeborg, to which it functions as a satellite city. It has a population of 3,932. is located in and therefore is part of the . is situated 4½ km south of Silkeborg.

Silkeborg

Latitude
56.1695° or 56° 10′ 10″ north
Longitude
9.5495° or 9° 32′ 58″ east
Population
43,300
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport code
XAH
United Nations Location Code
DK SLB
Open location code
9F8F5G9X+QR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26559248
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2614030
Wiki­data ID
Q21180
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zeeuws—“Silkeborg” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيلكيبورج”
  • Armenian: “Սիլքեբորգ”
  • Asturian: “Silkeborg”
  • Basque: “Silkeborg”
  • Belarusian: “Сількебарг”
  • Belarusian: “Сылькебарг”
  • Bulgarian: “Силкеборг”
  • Catalan: “Silkeborg”
  • Cebuano: “Silkeborg (kapital sa munisipyo sa Dinamarka)”
  • Cebuano: “Silkeborg”
  • Chinese: “施克堡”
  • Chinese: “锡尔克堡”
  • Croatian: “Silkeborg”
  • Czech: “Silkeborg”
  • Danish: “Silkeborg”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Silkeborg”
  • Dutch: “Silkeborg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيلكيبورج”
  • Estonian: “Silkeborg”
  • Faroese: “Silkeborg”
  • Finnish: “Silkeborg”
  • French: “Silkeborg”
  • Georgian: “სილკებორგი”
  • German: “Silkeborg”
  • Greek: “Σίλκεμποργκ”
  • Hebrew: “סילקבורג”
  • Hungarian: “Silkeborg”
  • Icelandic: “Silkiborg”
  • Ido: “Silkeborg”
  • Indonesian: “Silkeborg”
  • Irish: “Silkeborg”
  • Italian: “Silkeborg”
  • Japanese: “シルケボー”
  • Kashubian: “Silkeborg”
  • Korean: “실케보르”
  • Latvian: “Silkeborga”
  • Lithuanian: “Silkeborgas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Silkeborg”
  • Macedonian: “Силкеборг”
  • Moksha: “Силькэборг”
  • Northern Frisian: “Silkeborg Komuun”
  • Northern Frisian: “Silkeborg”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Silkeborg”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Silkeborg”
  • Norwegian: “Silkeborg”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Silkeborg”
  • Persian: “سیلکبورگ”
  • Polish: “Silkeborg”
  • Portuguese: “Silkeborg”
  • Romanian: “Silkeborg”
  • Russian: “Силькеборг”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Silkeborg”
  • Serbian: “Силкеборг”
  • Silesian: “Silkeborg”
  • Slovenian: “Silkeborg”
  • Spanish: “Silkeborg”
  • Swahili: “Silkeborg”
  • Swedish: “Silkeborg”
  • Tatar: “Силкеборг”
  • Turkish: “Silkeborg”
  • Ukrainian: “Сількеборг”
  • Ukrainian: “Сількеборґ”
  • Urdu: “سلکے بورگ”
  • Vietnamese: “Silkeborg”
  • Volapük: “Silkeborg”
  • Welsh: “Silkeborg”
  • Yue Chinese: “施克堡”
  • Zeeuws: “Silkeborg”
  • “Silkeborg”

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