Vejle County

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Vejle Amt
Basic Facts
County seat	Vejle
Area	2,997 km²
Inhabitants	360,921 (2006)
Map

Vejle Amt (English Vejle County) is a former county (Danish: amt) on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in southern Denmark. The county was abolished effective January 1, 2007, when it was divided between Region Midtjylland (i.e. Region Central Jutland) and Region Syddanmark (Region South Denmark). Vejle became the seat of the latter region.

Contents 1 List of County Mayors 2 Municipalities (1970-2006) 3 Notable sites 4 Citations

[edit] List of County Mayors

From	To	County Mayor
1970	1974	Aksel Buhl
1974	1993	Erling Tiedemann (Venstre)
1994	December 31, 2006	Otto Herskind Jørgensen (Venstre)

[edit] Municipalities (1970-2006)

Brædstrup municipality Børkop municipality Egtved municipality Fredericia municipality Gedved municipality Give municipality Hedensted municipality Horsens municipality

Jelling municipality Juelsminde municipality Kolding municipality Lunderskov municipality Nørre-Snede municipality Tørring-Uldum municipality Vamdrup municipality Vejle municipality

[edit] Notable sites

The Jelling stones are archaeological treasures erected by Harald Bluetooth to honour his parents.^[1] Encyclopedia Britannica considers the runic inscriptions as the most well known in Denmark.^[2]

The Haraldskær Woman is a bog body interred in about 500 BC, discovered in a peat bog with a remarkable state of preservation.^[3]

[edit] Citations

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