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Town and urban area in Region Midtjylland, Denmark · Central Jutland

Galten

Galten is a former railway town in central Denmark, at the Aarhus-Hammel-Thorsø railroad which was closed in 1956.

Galten
Galten · Dietmar Rabich
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Galten is a former railway town in central Denmark, at the Aarhus-Hammel-Thorsø railroad which was closed in 1956. The town is located in Skanderborg Municipality, Region Midtjylland, Jutland – about 17 kilometres – west of Aarhus and is now more or less a satellite town of Aarhus. Today, Galten has almost fused with the neighbouring eastern town of Skovby into an urban area with a population of 9,442.

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Getting to Galten

Airports
Aarhus (AAR), 47 km · Billund (BLL), 65 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 80 km
  • Aarhus → Galten
    18 km · quickest by road, 28 min · kr15–20
  • Billund → Galten
    69 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · kr60–85
  • Odense → Galten
    90 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · kr95–125
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No local-transport research exists yet for Galten

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Galten. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Helsingborg and the Öresund crossingSE

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    173 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    450 km
  3. 03
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    733 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    783 km
  5. 05
    Yell, Unst and the North IslesGB

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    808 km

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  • Stjærvillage in Skanderborg Municipality, Denmark5 km
  • Herskindvillage in Central Denmark, Denmark4.8 km
  • Skjørringvillage in Skanderborg Municipality, Denmark3.1 km