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Municipality in Central Denmark, Denmark

Horsens Municipality

Horsens Municipality is a municipality in Region Midtjylland on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark.

Horsens Municipality
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The place

Horsens Municipality is a municipality in Region Midtjylland on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality includes the island of Endelave, and covers an area of 515.2 km2. It has a population of 98,806 (2026). Its mayor is Peter Sørensen, a member of the Social Democratic party. The main town and the site of its municipal council is the city of Horsens.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Horsens Municipality

4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    CASA Arena Horsens

    Forum Horsens Stadium, known as Hybel Arena Horsens for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in Horsens, Denmark. Used primarily for football, it is the home ground of AC Horsens and has a capacity of 10,400, of which 7,500 is seated.

    1.7 km · football stadium in Denmark · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    VIA University College

    VIA University College is a university college in Central Denmark. It was established in January 2008 and operates eight campuses.

    3.2 km · vocational college in Denmark · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bygholm Castle

    Bygholm Castle is a former royal castle and manor house located just south of Horsens, Denmark. It traces its history back to 1313 but the current Baroque buildings date from 1775.

    1 km · manor house in Horsens Municipality, Denmark · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Forum Horsens

    Forum Horsens is an indoor sports arena and music venue in Horsens, Denmark. The arena was originally known as Parkhallen and opened in 1990, before being expanded with a bigger hall and swimming facilities in 2004.

    1.6 km · indoor sports arena and music venue in Horsens, Denmark · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Horsens Municipality

Airports
Billund (BLL), 45 km · Odense Hans Christian Andersen (ODE), 53 km · Aarhus (AAR), 69 km
Stations
Horsens station, 400 m
  • Billund → Horsens Municipality
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h · kr41–55
  • Odense → Horsens Municipality
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 30m · kr75–100
  • Aarhus → Horsens Municipality
    37 km · quickest by road, 43 min · kr31–42
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Horsens Municipality

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 Horsens Municipality. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextTake the bus to the small town of Snaptun and then the 1-hour ferry to the island of Endelave.
  • Go nextDo this as a day trip or stay overnight for a mini-vacation.
  • Go nextTake the short seven-minute ferry trip there from Snaptun.
  • Go nextIn the summer months there is a ferry connection from Snaptun, but Alrø can also be accessed from an artificial landbridge on the northern side.
  • Go nextBird tours are regularly arranged, as are small canoe trips.

From Wikivoyage: Horsens, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    6 ways of moving, 13 sources

    179 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    758 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    827 km

If you know how people move in Horsens Municipality – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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