Kerteminde

Kerteminde, is a town in central Denmark, located in Kerteminde Municipality on the island of Funen. The town has a population of 6,128. It is a small harbor town surrounded by farms. Kerteminde contains a fish restaurant, Rudolf Mathis, the Viking museum Ladby, and the research and exhibition institution for fish and porpoises Fjord & Bælt.

Parish and churches

Kerteminde is part of the Kerteminde-Drigstrup Parish, which was created on 1 December 2013 by merging the two parishes. Kerteminde Parish was quite small, so in the 1920s Kerteminde grew beyond the parish boundaries and gained a suburb on Over Kærby Mark in Drigstrup Parish.
Kerteminde's parish church, Sankt Laurentii Kirke, is located in the town. The town is also home to Emmauskirken, which is owned by Kerteminde-Dalby Valgmenighed, which also has Bethlehemskirken in Dalby.

School facilities

Kerteminde Byskole has 466 students in grades 0-9. Kerteminde Efterskole is a Grundtvig-Kold school with 23 employees.
The town has 4 daycare centers: Balders Hus with daycare and kindergarten for 78 children, Fjordvang kindergarten for 53 children, Nymarken kindergarten for 62 children and the private daycare and kindergarten Mølleløkken for 51 children.
Kerteminde Idrætscenter consists of two sports halls at the town's stadium.

Etymology

The town's name comes from the old name for Kerteminde Fjord, Kirta, followed by the Old Danish word minni, 'mynni 'mouth'.

Notable people

Painters

Frederik Storch a Danish genre painter
Johannes Larsen a nature painter, one of the Funen Painters
Anna Syberg a Funen painter, lived in Pilegården near Kerteminde from 1902
Christine Swane one of the Funen Painters then developed a Cubist style
Axel P. Jensen a painter of landscapes with stronger colouring than the Funen Painters
Alfred Simonsen a painter, one of the Odsherred Painters
Ernst Syberg a painter, became one of the Odsherred Painters
Birthe Bovin a self-taught Danish painter, became one of Odsherred Painters
Other arts
Frederik Paludan-Müller a Danish poet
Arent Nicolai Dragsted a Danish goldsmith
Franz Syberg a composer and organist at Kerteminde, 1932-1955
Henning Ipsen Danish novelist and translator
Annette Strøyberg a Danish actress
Torbjørn C. Pedersen a Danish traveller and adventurer
Sport
Oliver Christensen a professional footballer
Niels Petersen a weightlifter, competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Jan Eli Andersen a sailor, competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Niclas Vemmelund a Danish football defender
Kristoffer Lund a professional footballer
International relations

Twin towns and sister cities

Kerteminde is twinned with: