Skanderborg Municipality

Skanderborg Municipality Skanderborg Kommune (Danish)
Municipality
Location in Denmark
Coordinates: 56°02′N 9°55′E / 56.04°N 9.91°E / 56.04; 9.91
Country	Denmark
Region	Central Denmark
Established	1 January 2007
Government
• Mayor	Frands Fischer
Area
• Total	462.45 km2 (178.55 sq mi)
Population  (1. January 2024)[1]
• Total	65,205
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.skanderborg.dk

Skanderborg Municipality (Danish: Skanderborg Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark, just southwest of Aarhus. It covers an area of 462.45 km², with a population of 65,205 (1. January 2024).

Its mayor as of 1 April 2019 is Frands Fischer, representing the Social Democrats political party.

Skanderborg is the municipality's main town, and serves as the seat of the municipal council.

On 1 January 2007 Skanderborg municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Galten, Ry, and Hørning municipalities, along with Voerladegård Parish from Brædstrup municipality, to form the present, expanded "Skanderborg Municipality". The former municipality covered an area of 143.22 km², and had a population of 21,745 (2003). Its last mayor was Aleksander Aagaard, a member of the agrarian liberal Venstre political party.

The municipality is part of Business Region Aarhus and of the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.^[2][3]