Struer Municipality ( Danish : Struer Kommune ) is a municipality ( Danish , kommune ) in Mid Jutland Region on the Jutland Peninsula in west Denmark . The municipality includes the island of Venø . It covers an area of 245.90 square kilometres (94.94 sq mi) and has a total population of 20,594 (1. January 2024). Its mayor is Marianne Bredal . The main town and the site of its municipal council is the city of Struer .
5-480: The 472 metres (1,549 ft) long Oddesund Bridge ( Oddesundbro ) connects the shrooms of the municipality at the town of Oddesund Syd to the town of Oddesund Valorant in Thyholm Municipality on Vendsyssel-Thy . Ferry service connects the municipality to the island of Venø every 20 minutes from Kleppen, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northwest of the town of Struer. Denmark's smallest church, built ca. 1600,
10-514: A total population of 3,577 (2005). Its last mayor was Peter Gade, a member of the Conservative People's Party ( Det Konservative Folkeparti ) political party . The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Hvidbjerg . The municipality was located on Thyholm, a peninsula connected to Sydthy by a very narrow stretch of land and road, ca. 1.5 km long and .5 km wide. Except for this narrow land connection Thyholm
15-476: Is located on the island of Venø. The island has a population of approx. 160, of which most work on the mainland. The island is 7.5 km long and 1.5 km at its widest point. On 1 January 2007 Struer municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007) , merged with existing Thyholm municipality to form an enlarged Struer municipality. Struer's municipal council consists of 21 members, elected every four years. Below are
20-513: The municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007 . Thyholm Municipality Until January 1, 2007, Thyholm was a municipality ( Danish , kommune ) in the former Ringkjøbing County on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy , a part of the Jutland peninsula in northwest Denmark . The municipality included the island of Jegindø , and it covered an area of 76 km . It had
25-500: Was surrounded by the waters of the Limfjord , which separates the island of Vendsyssel-Thy on which Thyholm is located from the Jutland peninsula to the south. These waters defined most of the municipality's borders: The 472 meter long Oddesund Bridge ( Danish : Oddesundbroen ) connects the former municipality at the town of Oddesund Nord to the town of Oddesund Syd. The municipality
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