Ølsted, Aarhus Municipality

Ølsted is a small village in Aarhus Municipality, near the east coast of the Central Denmark Region, Denmark. It is located in a rural setting, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of the town of Trige – near enough that they share a Trige-Ølsted Joint Council.[1]

Ølsted
Location of Ølsted in the Central Denmark Region
Ølsted
Location of Ølsted, north of Aarhus, Denmark

Ølsted is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the town of Søften, and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of the city of Aarhus. Ølsted consists of a number of older houses and several farms, though its proximity to Aarhus has attracted some commuters, with the Trige-Ølsted Joint Council noting in 2020 that "in recent years more detached houses have been added."[1]

The village has Ølsted Church. Students from Ølsted, up to grade 9, attend Bakkegårdsskolen in Trige.[2]

The town has a common postal district (8380) with Trige and Spørring.

There may have been a manor house in the village during the 14th century, as Jens Peter Trap, in his seminal Statistical-Topographical Description of the Kingdom of Denmark (1904, 3rd edition, if not earlier editions), includes "Johannes Pedersen of Ølsted is mentioned in 1356".[3]

  • Ølsted Church
  • Ølsted

References
  1. "Home: Velkommen til Trige-Ølsted Fællesråds hjemmeside" [Home: Welcome to the website of the Trige-Ølsted Joint Council]. Trige-Ølsted Fællesråds (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  2. "Bakkegårdsskolen - Om Skolen" [Bakkegårdsskolen - Our School] (in Danish). Retrieved 2020-12-30.
  3. Falbe-Hansen, V.A.; Westergaard, Harald Ludvig; Weitemeyer, Harald; Trap, Jens Peter (credited for original editions), eds. (1904). Statistisk-topografisk Beskrivelse af Kongeriget Danmark [Statistical-Topographical Description of the Kingdom of Denmark] (in Danish). Volume V: Aarhus, Vejle, Ringkjøbing, Ribe Amter og Færøerne [Aarhus, Vejle, Ringkjøbing, Ribe Counties and the Faroe Islands] (3rd ed.). Copenhagen: G. E. C. Gad. p. 120 – via Internet Archive.
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