Toftlund

Toftlund Kirke

Toftlund (Template:Lang-da), Toftlund is a town in South Jutland with 3,242 inhabitants. It is a part of Tønder municipality and Region of Southern Denmark. It is located on the southern edge of Toftlund Till Deposit (Template:Lang-da) in the center of South Jutland. It lies 35 km northeast of Tønder and 30 km northwest of Aabenraa. The town has an active network of various institutions, including a municipal school, a church, a sports complex with outdoor swimming pool, golf course, a private school, boarding school, a folk high school specializing in music and theater, a public library, a movie theater, as well as a variety of shops and food options. A performance hall designed by Carsten Hoff and Susanne Ussing is attached to the folk high school and is host to various cultural activities, including jazz concerts, comedy acts, theatrical plays and talks. It is also host to the annual Toftlund Lydfest, a one-day festival for improvised music.

History

The town known as Toftlund today was historically two towns, Herrested (to the south, organized around the church, which dates to around 1100) and Toftlund to the north, but they eventually grew together. From 1864 to 1920, Toftlund was a part of Prussia and was an administrative center, as can be seen today from many of the German-inspired architecture. There are bunkers in the forest from the first world war which were a part of a network of bunkers across Jutland, called Sicherungsstellung Nord. From 1904 to 1939, Toftlund had a train station that connected it to nearby Haderslev. Before the Municipal Reform of 2007, Toftlund was the administrative center of Nørre-Rangstrup Municipality.

Brundtland City

In 1990, Toftlund started an EU-supported project on energy efficiency in partnership with the German town Bredstedt in the border state of Schleswig-Holstein. Toftlund was declared Denmark’s first Brundtland city by the Brundtland Commission. The Brundtland Center was built with the funds. Located at the southern end of the town, the center housed several different companies dedicated to producing energy efficient products.

Notable people

• Hofmarschall Ove Ullerup-Petersen (born July 19, 1951)
• Frode Sørensen (born 1946) a Danish politician, was Tax Minister 2000-2001 and a Member of Parliament (Folketinget) 1998-2007
• Saxophonist Louise Dam Eckardt Jensen (born April 1, 1980)
• Stand-up comedian Thomas Warberg (born June 11, 1985)

Gallery

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  Toftlund Music and Theater Folk High School
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  Toftlund's Music and Theater Performance House
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  Toftlund's Water Tower
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  Toftlund - Herrestedgaard
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  Outdoor Pool

External links

• Toftlund's official website (in Danish)