Struer Municipality

Struer Municipality Struer Kommune (Danish)
Municipality
Location of Struer municipality
Coordinates: 56°29′N 8°37′E / 56.483°N 8.617°E / 56.483; 8.617
Country	Denmark
Region	Mid Jutland Region
Created	1970
Enlargement	2007
Area
• Total	245.9 km2 (94.9 sq mi)
Population  (1. January 2024)[1]
• Total	20,594
• Density	84/km2 (220/sq mi)
Website	www.struer.dk

Struer Municipality (Danish: Struer Kommune) is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Mid Jutland Region on the Jutland Peninsula in west Denmark. The municipality includes the island of Venø. It covers an area of 245.90 square kilometres (94.94 sq mi) and has a total population of 20,594 (1. January 2024). Its mayor is Mads Jakobsen, a member of the Venstre party.^[2] The main town and the site of its municipal council is the city of Struer.

The 472 metres (1,549 ft) long Oddesund Bridge (Oddesundbro) connects the municipality at the town of Oddesund Syd to the town of Oddesund Nord in Thyholm Municipality on Vendsyssel-Thy. Ferry service connects the municipality to the island of Venø every 20 minutes from Kleppen, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) northwest of the town of Struer.

Denmark's smallest church, built ca. 1600, is located on the island of Venø. The island has a population of approx. 160, of which most work on the mainland. The island is 7.5 km long and 1.5 km at its widest point.

On 1 January 2007 Struer municipality was, as the result of Kommunalreformen ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with existing Thyholm municipality to form an enlarged Struer municipality.^[3]