Historical divisions

The table below shows the historical municipal subdivisions of Jammerbugt Municipality.^[5]

Aabybro

Aabybro Dairy.

Aabybro is the main city of the municipality and the seat of the municipal council. It is located in the eastern part of the municipality.

North of the town is an ice cream factory from 1888, Aabybro Dairy (Danish: Aabybro Mejeri). Also to the north is an efterskole, as well as Aaby Church and many residential areas. Along the town's main road, on the western part of town, is a number of shops and amenities, including a school and a library. The remainder of the western, central and eastern parts of Aabybro are mainly residential areas. The southern part of the town has an industrial area, which also includes a number of shops and a school.^[7][8]

Fjerritslev

Fjerritslev is located 28 km west of Aabybro, 35 km northeast of Thisted and 13 km north of Løgstør.

In the town is a number of shops and amenities, including a cinema. Fjerritslev Brewery- and Local Museum (Danish: Fjerritslev Bryggeri- og Egnsmuseum) is also located in the town, and tells about the history of brewery, as well as the local history. In the summer, Fjerritslev hosta a weekly market along its main street.^[9][10]

Pandrup

Street in Pandrup.

Pandrup is located in the northern part of the municipality, 1 km north of Kås, 4 km north of Aabybro and 15 km southwest of Brønderslev.

It is located close to nearby vacation homes, and hosts a yearly shopping event during the summer. A sports center is also located in the town.^[11]

Brovst

Brovst is located centrally in the municipality, 15 km southwest of Aabybro and 16 km east of Fjerritslev.

The central location of the town allows for easy access to the many nature areas located centrally in the municipality.^[12]

Villages

Fårup Summer Park.

With no major towns in the municipality, many citizens of Jammerbugt Municipality live in villages. Only Aabybro, Fjerritslev, Pandrup, Kås, Brovst and Skovsgård has a relatively high population density, with the rest of the municipality being much less densely populated. This leads to a lot of small villages and scattered settlements.^[13]

One of Denmark's biggest amusement parks, Fårup Summer Park, is located by the villages of Hune and Saltum.

Grønhøj, located in the northern part of the municipality, is connected to Løkken and is a large area with vacation homes. The area include a number of amenities, including a public pool and sports hall.^[14]

In the village of Hune is the Museum for paper art (Danish: Museum for papirkunst).^[15]

In addition to these villages, there are a number of smaller settlements in the municipality. These are all the settlements with populations of less than 200 people:^[16]

Dune plantations

Svinkløv Dune Plantation

In the northwestern corner of the municipality, bordering Thisted Municipality, is Vester Thorup Dune Plantation (Danish: Vester Thorup Klitplantage). In it is a small protected area. It's a chalk cliff with a unique flora known as Valbjerg Sande.^[23]

Vester Thorup Dune Plantation is home to a rich flora, including plants such as drug eyebright, deer fern, wintergreen, rought horsetail, lesser twayblade, marsh helleborine, butterwort, moonwort, Danish kidneyvetch and field gentian.^[24]

Although the flora is similar in most of the dune plantations along the municipality's coast, there are slight differences. In the Fosdal Plantation, located slightly north between Fjerritslev and Brovst, is a heath which is home to the wolf's bane, a rare plant in Denmark.^[25]

Wolf's bane, a rare plant in Denmark, can be found in the Fosdal Plantation

The fauna in the municipality's dune plantation include many birds and insects. There are mammals, such as polecats and hares, though there generally aren't many mammals in the dune plantations. Tranum Dune Plantation, west of Pandrup, has a population of roe deer, as does Blokhus Dune Plantation further north.^[26]

The carpenter ant can be found in Vester Thorup Dune Plantation. The marsh fritillary, rare in Denmark, can be found in Tranum Dune Plantation.^[27]

Birds breeding in the plantations include nightjar, redstart, European pied flycatcher and red-backed shrike. During the winter the white-throated dipper can be found in Svinkløv Plantation and Kollerup Plantation.^[28]

A large area of 3,000 acres is protected, including parts of Fosdal Plantation and Langdal Plantation. It was protected in 1902, then expanded again in 1954, 1956, 1962 and 2009. Also protected is seven separate areas, amounting to 415 acres total, located between Rødhus and Løkken.^[29][30]

Klim Dune Plantation can also be found in the municipality, located between the plantations of Vester Thorup and Kollerup.

Store Vildmose

Store Vildmose is a bogland located north of Aabybro. It is the remnant of an extensive raised peat bog, in large part drained by constructed canals in the early 20th century. Some areas are still relatively untouched and give an impression of the original nature of this bog. 1895 acres are protected.

The bogland is home to the cloudberry, which is a rare plant in Denmark. The Eurasian otter can be found here.^[31]

Jammerbugten Seafloor

The coast of Jammerbugt forms a stretch of sandy beaches in an inwardly curved bay called Jammerbugten. The seafloor contains many shipwrecks which provide marine habitats for wildlife. It was thought that the majority of the Jammerbugten’s seafloor was sandy with a low density of species, until a 2020 seafloor mapping project,^[32] ran by danish explorer Klaus Thymann, found evidence of much greater biodiversity in a range seafloor habitats. The area is subject to further exploration in order to protect it from destructive fishing practices, preserving newly documented species such as Dead Man’s Finger coral, which had never before been recorded in the area.

Municipal council

Jammerbugt's municipal council consists of 27 members, elected every four years.

Below are the municipal councils elected since the Municipal Reform of 2007.

Mayors

Since the 2007 municipal reform, the mayors of Jammerbugt Municipality have been:^[33]

Castles and manors

Bratskov manor

• Birkelse is a manor located west of Aabybro. It is named after Birkelse Skov, a nearby birch forest. The manor has belonged to the Skeel family since the middle of the 1600s.^[47]
• Birkumgaard is a manor located east of Gjøl. It belonged to Børglum Monastery from 1465 and until 1536 where it was taken by the crown.^[48]
• Bratskov is a manor located north of Brovst. It is known to have existed since at least 1317, though sources mention it from as early as the later half of the 1200s. It was owned by the Torstensen family in 1317, and remained in their possession until 1558. The manor was acquired by Brovst Municipality in 1976. In the 2007 municipal reform it was transferred to Jammerbugt Municipality.^[49]
• Kokkedal is a manor located south of Torslev. It is known to have existed since at least 1327. During the Thirty Years' War the forests of Kokkedal were cut down and never recovered. The manor house was bought by the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1948, and turned into a school house for boys. It returned into private ownership in 1988.^[50]
• Oxholm is a manor located south of Brovst. It is a former monastery, formerly named Ø Kloster.^[51]
• Rævkærgaard is a manor located northwest of Aabybro. The manor has existed since the 1500s and has been in the Skeel family since the 1600s.^[52]
• Aagaard is a manor located slightly south of Fjerritslev. It is known to have existed since at least 1355, where it was in the Gyldenstierne family. During peasant rebellions in 1438—1441 the manor was taken by the rebels. It was looted and burned. Aagaard was in the Gyldenstierne family until 1627, when Knud Gyldenstierne died. His widow, Sophie Lindenov, sold the manor to her mother in 1630, ending the Gyldenstierne's reign over the manor.^[53]

Churches

See List of churches in Jammerbugt Municipality

Events

The Saltum Wool Festival (Danish: Uldfestival Saltum) is a yearly event hosted in Saltum. The event focuses on wool, yarn and clothes and has existed since 2007. The event is the largest of its kind in Scandinavia.^[54]

Public thought and politics

• Jens Haven (1724 in Vust — 1796), missionary in Canada
• Henriette Nielsen (1815 in Vester Torup — 1900), author
• Kirsten Kjær (1893–1985), painter
• Helle Juul (born 1954 in Vester Hjermitslev), architect
• Ole Christensen (born 1955 in Pandrup), politician and former MEP
• Mogens Gade (born 1961 in Øster Svenstrup), politician and mayor of the municipality
• Lone Drøscher Nielsen (born 1964 in Aabybro), wildlife conservationist
• Thomas Danielsen (born 1983 in Fjerritslev), politician and MF
• Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen (born 1983 in Brovst), politician and MF

Sport

• Hans Nielsen (born 1959 in Brovst), speedway rider
• Rikke Nielsen (born 1977 in Fjerritslev), handball player
• Pernille Holmsgaard (born 1984 in Pandrup), handball player
• Nicolaj Ritter (born 1992 in Brovst), football player
• Kasper Pedersen (born 1993 in Aabybro), football player
• Søren Reese (born 1993 in Ingstrup), football player
• Mikkel B. Andersen (born 1996 in Fjerritslev), speedway rider