Facts
Area	60.18 km² (2005)
Population	47,671 (2005)
Home page	http://www.greve.dk/

Greve Municipality is a municipality (Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

, kommune) about 21 km south-west of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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 in Region Sjælland

Region Sjælland

Region Zealand is an administrative region of Denmark established on January 1, 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform, which replaced the traditional counties with five larger regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the number of...

 on the east coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. The municipality covers an area of 60 km², and has a total population of 47,773 (2008). Its mayor is Hans Barlach, a member of the De Konservative

Conservative People's Party (Denmark)

The Conservative People's Party , also known as Conservatives is a Danish political party.-History:The party was founded 1915 based mostly on its predecessor, Højre , but also on the Free Conservatives and a moderate faction of Venstre , the liberals.The party has participated in several coalition...

 (The Conservative Party) political party

Politics of Denmark

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.

The site of its municipal council is the town of Greve Strand

Greve Strand

Greve Strand is a Danish town, seat of the Greve Municipality, in the Region Sjælland. Its population is 40,877 .-History:...

.

Greve Municipality was formed in 1970, as part of the kommunalreform ("Municipal Reform") of that year. It was established by combining the following parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

es:

• Greve
• Karlslunde
• Karlslunde Strand
• Kildebrønde
• Mosede
• Tune.

Greve municipality was one of the municipalities that was not merged with any others on 1 January 2007 in the nationwide Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007).

History

Until the 1960s the area was primarily agricultural, and most businesses in town were concentrated along the coastal road "Strandvejen". With numerous holiday cottages near the coast of Køge Bugt (Køge Bay), this was also the destination for many inhabitants of Copenhagen on holiday away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

During the late 1960s and into the 1970s, many people moved permanently out of Copenhagen and into new homes in places like Greve. What was formerly farmers' fields quickly turned into districts of detached houses, whilst most of the shops and similar businesses near the coastal road moved into central shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

s such as Hundige Storcenter

Hundige StorCenter

Waves is a shopping mall in Hundige located in the Greve Municipality. The mall houses the largest Bilka in the world and has more than 135 stores and restaurants. The mall has 3200 free parking lots as shopping in the mall is mainly car based.The mall employs more than 1500 people making it the...

 and Greve Midtby Center. Around 1980 the S-train

S-Train

The S-train network is a combined urban rapid transit and suburban rail network of Metropolitan Copenhagen, Denmark. It connects the city center with the inner suburbs of Copenhagen, and has close to half of the stations within the urban city. The first line was opened in 1934...

 railroad network was expanded towards Køge

Køge

Køge Municipality is a municipality in Region Sjælland on the east coast of the island of Zealand approx. 40 km. southwest of Copenhagen. The municipality covers an area of 255 km² , and has a total population of 56,637...

, and the stations Greve

Greve station

Greve station is on the Køge radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the middle of three stations in the urbanized coastal end of Greve municipality, and serves the mainly residential areas Greve and Mosede....

 and Hundige

Hundige station

Hundige station is a station on the Køge radial of the S-train network in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is situated close to the 'Hundige Center' Shopping center....

 were placed adjacent to the shopping malls.

Today, it serves primarily as a residential municipality, functioning as a suburb

Suburb

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for the larger Copenhagen area.

External links

• Municipality's official websiteKrak searchable/printable map(outline of municipality does not print out!)