Hundreds of Denmark

In the period preceding the Municipal Reform of 1970, Denmark was divided into around 170 hundreds (Danish: herred, plural: herreder). In the timeframe 1793 through 1970, each parish was functioning as a municipality within their respective hundreds. The hundreds were in turn part of a county. This was changed in 1970, when the parishes were merged into larger municipalities sometimes crossing hundred borders, and the hundreds fell out of administrative use.

Today, hundreds are used mostly for purposes of genealogy research.

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Denmark was subdivided into hundreds from the early medieval period until this administrative division was finally abolished as part of the 1970 administrative reform.

Hundreds comprised varying numbers of parishes (Danish: sogn, plural: sogne), and each hundred had its own tingsted (assembly place) where the ting (assembly) was held, serving as court of law in minor affairs (major affairs were decided by the three landsting assemblies, serving as supreme courts in respectively 1) Scania [including Halland, Blekinge and Bornholm], 2) Zealand [including Lolland and Falster] and 3) Jutland and Funen). It has been hypothesised - since an extremely large amount of Denmark's herreder have access to the sea - that the division may have originated in the Viking era, for either offensive or defensive purposes. The subdivision applies to almost all parts of medieval Denmark (see below), including Southern Schleswig, Scania, Halland and Blekinge, but not Rügen.

Jutland (including Southern Schleswig) and most or all of Zealand were divided into syssel divisions (Danish: syssel, plural: sysler), each composed of a number of herreder, which in turn were subdivided into parishes. The syssel division did not apply in other parts of Denmark.

The area between the Danevirke fortifications and the river Eider (originally very sparsely populated) was exceptional in being included into the syssel divisions (as part of Istedsyssel) but was not subdivided into herreder. The area of North Frisian settlement Uthlande, now North Frisia, was subdivided into herreder which in turn were divided into parishes, but this region was not subject to Danish law but to a local Frisian law, and was in the medieval period administered as part of the royal demesne.

When Denmark in the 1660s abolished the former division into fiefs (Len), their replacement, the counties (amt, plural: amter) were similarly based on the herreder which in turn remained subdivided into parishes.

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HundredCounty
Als NørreSønderborg
Als SønderSønderborg
AlstedSorø
AnstRibe
ArsHolbæk
BjergeOdense
BjerreVejle
BjæverskovPræstø (since 1803)
Bornholms NørreBornholm
Bornholms SønderBornholm
Bornholms VesterBornholm
Bornholms ØsterBornholm
BruskVejle
BøllingRingkøbing
BørglumHjørring
BågOdense
BårsePræstø (since 1803)
Djurs NørreRanders
Djurs SønderRanders
DronninglundHjørring
ElboVejle
FaksePræstø (since 1803)
Falsters NørreMaribo
Falsters SønderMaribo
FjendsViborg
FleskumÅlborg
FramlevÅrhus
FrøsHaderslev
FuglseMaribo
GaltenRanders
GindingRingkøbing
GislumÅlborg
GjerlevRanders
GjernSkanderborg
GramHaderslev
GudmeSvendborg
GørdingRibe
HaderslevHaderslev
HadsÅrhus
HammerPræstø (since 1803)
HammerumRingkøbing
HarreViborg
HasleÅrhus
HassingThisted
HattingVejle
HellumÅlborg
HidsViborg
HindRingkøbing
HindborgViborg
HindstedÅlborg
HillerslevThisted
HjelmslevSkanderborg
HjermRingkøbing
HolboFrederiksborg
HolmansVejle
HornsFrederiksborg
HornsHjørring
HornumÅlborg
HoulbjergViborg
HundborgThisted
HvetboHjørring
HvidingTønder
JerlevVejle
KærÅlborg
Langelands NørreSvendborg
Langelands SønderSvendborg
Lollands NørreMaribo
Lollands SønderMaribo
LundeOdense
LundtoftÅbenrå
Lynge-FrederiksborgFrederiksborg
Lynge-KronborgFrederiksborg
LysgårdViborg
LæsøHjørring
LøveHolbæk
MaltRibe
MerløseHolbæk
MiddelsomViborg
MolsRanders
Morsø NørreThisted
Morsø SønderThisted
MusseMaribo
MønboPræstø (since 1803)
NimSkanderborg
NingÅrhus
NybølSønderborg
NørhaldRanders
NørlyngViborg
NørreViborg
Nørre HorneRingkøbing
Nørre RangstrupHaderslev
Nørre TyrstrupVejle
NørvangVejle
OdenseOdense
OdsHolbæk
OnsildRanders
RamsøRoskilde (København after 1808)
RefsThisted
RibeRibe
RindsViborg
RingstedSorø
RiseÅbenrå
RougsøRanders
RøddingViborg
SabroÅrhus
SallingeSvendborg
SamsøHolbæk
SkamOdense
SkastRibe
SkippingeHolbæk
SkodborgRingkøbing
SkovbyOdense
SlagelseSorø
SlavsRibe
SletÅlborg
SlogsTønder
SmørumKøbenhavn
SokkelundKøbenhavn
StevnsPræstø (since 1803)
StrøFrederiksborg
StøvringRanders
SundsSvendborg
SømmeRoskilde (København after 1808)
SønderhaldRanders
SønderlyngViborg
Sønder RangstrupÅbenrå
Sønder TyrstrupHaderslev
TuneRoskilde (København after 1808)
TuseHolbæk
TybjergPræstø (since 1803)
TyrstingSkanderborg
Tønder, Højer og LøTønder
UlfborgRingkøbing
TørrildVejle
VandfuldRingkøbing
VendsOdense
VennebjergHjørring
Vester FlakkebjergSorø
Vester HanThisted
Vester HorneRibe
Vester LisbjergÅrhus
VindingeSvendborg
VoerSkanderborg
VoldborgRoskilde (København after 1808)
VradsSkanderborg
ØlstykkeFrederiksborg
Øster FlakkebjergSorø
Øster HanHjørring
Øster HorneRibe
Øster LisbjergRanders
ÆrøSvendborg
ÅrsÅlborg
ÅsumOdense
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