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Skærbæk Municipality

Coordinates: 55°09′25″N 8°46′05″E / 55.157°N 8.768°E / 55.157; 8.768
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Skærbæk Municipality
Skærbæk Kommune
Former Municipality
The former townhall of Skærbæk Municipality
The former townhall of Skærbæk Municipality
CountryDenmark
CountySouth Jutland County
Formed1970
Dissolved2007
Area
 • Total360 km2 (140 sq mi)
Population
 (2005)
 • Total7,294

Skærbæk Municipality was a municipality in Southern Jutland. It covered an area of 360 square kilometres (140 sq mi) and had a total population of 7,294 (2005). The municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007) when it was merged with Bredebro, Højer, Løgumkloster, Nørre-Rangstrup, and Tønder municipalities to form the new Tønder Municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 1,352 square kilometres (522 sq mi) and a total population of 42,645 (2005).

The municipality was created in 1970 as the result of a kommunalreform ("Municipality Reform") that merged a number of existing parishes: Brøns Parish, Døstrup Parish, Mjolden Parish, Rejsby Parish [da], Rømø Parish, Skærbæk Parish, and Vodder Parish. The municipal seat was the town of Skærbæk. The municipality included the island of Rømø, the southernmost of Denmark's part of the North Frisian Islands.

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55°09′25″N 8°46′05″E / 55.157°N 8.768°E / 55.157; 8.768