Dronninglund is a town in eastern Vendsyssel with 3,439
inhabitants (2020). The town is named after Queen Charlotte Amalie
who owned Dronninglund Castle in 1690. Originally, this manor was a
monastery from the 13th century that the town gradually grew up
around. This monastery was called Hundslund Kloster. Dronninglund is
located in Brønderslev Municipality and belongs to the North Jutland
Region.
Four kilometers north of the city is Dronninglund
Storskov which covers the southern part of the hilly landscape Jyske
Ås. The highest hill in this area is Knøsen with its 136 meters
above sea level. In a southwesterly direction, four kilometers from
Dronninglund, you will find the cultural history museum Try Museum
which tells the history of the area from ancient times to the
present through various exhibitions focusing on prehistory, the
farmer's residence in the 19th century and life in the station town.
Until the structural reform in 2007, Dronninglund had its own
municipality, which was called Dronninglund Municipality.
Around the turn of the century, the town is described as follows:
"In the Parish of Dronninglund Church, by the road to Asaa, built
together with Hovedgaarden Dronninglund, with nearby Presbytery.
(Lundager), School, Private School, County Hospital, built in 1874
after a drawing by County Road Inspector Lunøe, extended in 1899,
with Number of Konti 1237), mill, steam bakery, wool spinning mill,
printing house, grocery stores, timber trade, commercial
horticulture, etc., hotel, railway and telephone station as well as
postal forwarding."
Dronninglund was already developing
around the turn of the century: in 1906 the town had 429
inhabitants, in 1911 631 and in 1916 760 inhabitants.
In the
interwar period and after World War II, Dronninglund continued its
development: in 1921 the town had 858 inhabitants, in 1925 1,099, in
1930 1,208, in 1935 1,215, in 1940 1,169, in 1945 1,339, in 1950
1,458, in 1955 1.5 33, in 1960 1,647 and in 1965 1,747 inhabitants.
In 1930, the occupational composition was: 129 lived from
agriculture, 439 from industry and crafts, 173 from trade, 101 from
transport, 70 from intangible business, 135 from housework, 143 were
out of business and 18 had not provided information. Contributing to
Dronninglund's rather strong population growth was that the city
became a catchment center in the south-eastern Dronninglund Herred
and that the city had a lot of industry.
During World War II,
Dronninglund had two resistance groups, one consisting of Selmer
Mølgård Sørensen, Jacob Jacobsen, Knud Hansen and (Jørgen Kjærulff.)
the other Helveg Aage Andersen, Frode Clausager, Søren Jensen,
veterinarian Jensen and Christian Christiansen. The groups have,
among other things, been responsible for railway sabotage etc.