Gylling (Odder Municipality)

Gylling is a village in Jutland, Denmark. It is located in Odder Municipality.

Gylling
Village
Gylling Church
Gylling Church
Gylling is located in Denmark Central Denmark Region
Gylling
Gylling
Location in the Central Denmark Region
Coordinates: 55°53′26″N 10°9′59″E / 55.89056°N 10.16639°E / 55.89056; 10.16639
CountryDenmark
RegionCentral Denmark
MunicipalityOdder
Population
 (2024)[1]
654
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

History

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Gylling Church was built in the later half of the 1100s.[2]

Gylling in 1688 consisted of 22 farms and 33 half-farms, with 6 houses with land and 2 houses without land. The total cultivated area was 854.2 barrels of land yielding 154.37 barrels of grains.[3]

Notable people

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  • Karen Jeppe (1876 — 1935), social worker known for her work with Ottoman Armenian refugees and survivors of the Armenian Genocide, mainly widows and orphans, from 1903 until her death in Syria in 1935.
  • Mogens Jeppesen (born 1953), handball player

References

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  1. ^ BY3: Population 1. January, by urban and rural areas The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
  2. ^ Danmarkskirker.natmus.dk "Gylling Kirke" Retrieved 16 August 2020
  3. ^ Pedersen, s. 227