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14-684: Christiansfeld , with a population of 2,979 (1 January 2024), is a town in Kolding Municipality in Southern Jutland in Region of Southern Denmark . The town was founded in 1773 by the Moravian Church and named after the Danish king Christian VII . Since July 2015 it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site , highlighting its status as the best-preserved example of the town-planning and architecture of

28-517: A 100 million DKK restoration project of the inner-city. In 2012 the A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine Mc-Kinney Møllers Fond donated 60 million DKK for the restoration of the Sister's House. Today, the city is a tourist attraction: the old city core, the Moravian Church with its light, simple and impressive hall and the special cemetery draw thousands of tourists each year. Its well preserved architecture

42-561: A part of Germany until 1920 when, as a part of a plebiscite called for by the Treaty of Versailles , Northern Schleswig voted to rejoin Denmark. After reunification, the Moravian church lost some of the rights it had obtained as a part of the town's founding in the 18th century. For example, it no longer had the ability to choose the towns leadership, paving the way for the town's first Danish mayor who

56-533: A ten-year tax holiday for the city and paid 10% of the construction costs of new houses. By 1779, the town's population reached 279, and by 1782, it had about 400 residents. It was one of many towns in Schleswig officially designated a small market town ( flække ). In 1864, Christiansfeld and the rest of Schleswig was ceded to Prussia as a result of Denmark's defeat in the Second Schleswig War . It remained

70-500: A total population of 1.378 million in 2016. To the east is a strait , first called Snævringen ("The Narrowing") and then further south Bredningen ("The Broadening"), that separates the Jutland mainland from the island of Funen in this area, where the two lie very close to each other, often less than 1.5 km apart. Snævringen is an extension of the Kattegat , and begins near

84-468: Is located in Kolding city. It was built in the 13th century by King Eric Glipping and is now a museum with certain parts of the castle, including its chapel and hall, being used for governmental ceremonial events. It was the last royal residence in Jutland. Another notable site is the 13th century stone Church of Saint Nicholas, which is one of the oldest in Denmark. Other popular tourist attractions include

98-664: Is one of the reasons it was nominated as a tentative UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993. It was finally inscribed on the main list on 4 July 2015. The town is famed for its honey cakes. These are baked to a secret recipe from 1783. Until 2008, the cakes were baked in the original 18th-century bakery, which was then renovated because of new national sanitary standards, but still uses the original recipes. [REDACTED] Media related to Christiansfeld at Wikimedia Commons Kolding Municipality Several major Danish motorways intersect in Kolding municipality. Middelfart municipality and Kolding municipality are connected by two bridges:

112-683: The Old Little Belt Bridge and the New Little Belt Bridge . On 1 January 2007 Kolding municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007) , merged with Christiansfeld , Lunderskov , Vamdrup municipalities, and Vester Nebel Parish in Egtved Municipality to form a new Kolding municipality. The municipality is part of Triangle Region and of the East Jutland metropolitan area , which had

126-472: The Moravian Church. The town was constructed around a central Church Square bordered by two parallel streets running east to west. The Hall, Sister's House, fire-house, the vicarage, and the former provost’s house were built directly around the square, and shops, Brother's House, family residences, a hotel, and a school were built along the parallel streets. Many of the residential buildings are communal, which were typical of Moravian settlements and were used by

140-627: The Trapholt Art Museum and the Geographic Garden ( Geografisk Have ). Trapholt has a collection of Danish arts from 1900 onwards, as well as a smaller number of non-Danish exhibits. Kolding's municipal council consists of 25 members, elected every four years. The municipal council has ten political committees. Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007 . List of municipalities of Denmark This

154-551: The cities of Fredericia and Middelfart , north and east of Kolding municipality. As Snævringen broadens it becomes Bredningen , which opens out into the Little Belt ( Lillebælt ), the main strait between Jutland and Funen. The municipality of Middelfart on the other side of Snævringen is thus Kolding's municipal neighbor to the east. The island of Fænø lies in Snævringen between Kolding and Middelfart. Leading directly into

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168-541: The city of Kolding from Snævringen are the waters of Kolding Fjord . There are 18 cities and towns (as defined by Statistics Denmark as an urban area with a population of at least 200) in the municipality. Of the 89,556 people living in the municipality, 78,695 reside permanently in an urban area, 10,759 reside in rural areas (including localities with less than 200 inhabitants). Danish Air Transport has its head office in Vamdrup . The former royal castle of Koldinghus

182-558: The widows and unmarried women and men of the congregation. The architecture of Christiansfeld is homogeneous, dominated by one or two-story buildings made out of yellow brick and red tile roofs. Many of the buildings in Christiansfeld retain their original uses. Most of Christiansfeld was constructed in the years 1773–1800, following a strict city plan that drew inspiration from the earlier Moravian settlements of Herrnhaag and Gnadau . To encourage construction, king Christian VII promised

196-436: Was not a member of the church in 1920. The church also sold its schools at this time due to the declining membership of its congregation. From 1970 to 2007, the town was the administrative seat of Christiansfeld Municipality , but it lost this status and was placed in the Kolding Municipality as a part of the Municipal Reform of 2007 (Kommunalreformen 2007) . In 2009 Kolding Municipality and Realdania-foundation agreed on

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