Hjallerup is a town in Vendsyssel with 4,184 inhabitants (2020), located 33 km southwest of Sæby, 20 km northeast of Aalborg, 10 km west of Dronninglund and 21 km southeast of Brønderslev. The town belongs to Brønderslev Municipality and is located in the North Jutland Region. In 1970-2006, the city belonged to Dronninglund Municipality. Hjallerup belongs to Hjallerup Parish, and Hjallerup Church from 1903 is located a little east of the city.
The town is especially known for Hjallerup Market,
which is held every year in June and is visited by 200,000 people.
One week each summer, the marketplace is used by the Inner Mission
for Bible camping.
Opposite the market square is Hjallerup
Mechanical Museum, which i.a. has restored cars, motorcycles,
mopeds, tractors and agricultural machinery as well as radios and
televisions, PCs, mobile phones and navigation equipment. In front
of the museum is a jet fighter, and in a field at the end of the
driveway is Thilo Frank's artwork Ekko, which was inaugurated on the
market's first day in 2012 and is a circle of wooden frames that you
can walk around.
At the northern end of the town is the
Pastor Laier Museum. Anton Laier was a priest in Hjallerup
1927-1937, but was fired because he came into serious conflict with
members of the congregation. Even before the firing, he had started
making violent cement sculptures, which were set up in the rectory
garden facing the main road. Later he lived in the house where there
is now a museum with over 200 of his sculptures and a selection of
his 250 paintings.
Hjallerup School has over 660 pupils, divided into grades 0-9. grade.
They also have an after-school center from 5th to 9th grade. The SFO has
197 pupils.
Hjallerup Sports Center has two sports halls and a
swimming pool. Outside the city there are two riding halls and a riding
track.
Hjallerup Kulturhus was inaugurated in 1997 and was then 1,000
m². After 3 extensions, it is now 1,597 m² and contains a library, local
history archive and cultural center/parish hall with 3 halls.
Hotel
Hjallerup Kro, the old Hjallerup Kro, has 24 double rooms as well as
group rooms and conference/course rooms for 200 people.
Hjallerup has
3 supermarkets, several specialist shops and a cinema.
Green
Concert
Every year during Grøn Koncert, the volunteer employees – now
750 – come to visit Hjallerup. Here they have three rest days between
the first 4 and the last 4 concert days.[8] They are accommodated at
Hjallerup School and in the sports halls.
Market and inn
In 1744, the Hjallerup Marked horse market took
place for the first time. It was held south of today's urban area at the
inn Hjallup Kro, which was later renamed Frederikshvile due to a visit
by the then Danish King Frederik VII.
However, when the road from
Aalborg to Frederikshavn was built, the inn and horse market moved to
the settlement area of Hjallup in 1858. After two years, the market was
moved to an area in Østergade where there are now football pitches.
Until 1965 the innkeeper was responsible for the horse market. Since
1966 the market has been administered by the Hjallerup Markedsforening,
an association belonging to the Hjallerup Samvirke organisation. In 1972
the market got its current location in the Algade and has since been
expanded to include an open-air stage, water, sewage and even beer
pipes.
The town of Hjallerup
Hjallup was a small village
consisting of scattered farms with an inn, market and school. When it
was connected to the road network by Sæbyvejen, it became a residential
area. Over time, a dairy, a mill, a grocery store, a bakery, a mission
house, a post office and a brewery settled here. In 1858 the inn (see
under "Market and Inn") also moved to the new settlement area.
In
1903 a church was built in the town.
In 1911 Hjallerup had 394
inhabitants, more than half of the working people were employed in
crafts, industry and trade.
Hjallerup becomes stationsby
In
1924 Hjallerup got a railway station and the town was connected to the
rail network. The Vodskov–Østervrå railway was closed in 1950 because it
was a losing business.
Further growth
The city benefited from
the short distance to Aalborg and the connection to the road to
Frederikshavn. In the 1960s an industrial area was built and the city
developed into an industrial center. This caused a sharp increase in
population.
In 1970 a secondary school was opened and a gym was
built, and a kindergarten was added the following year. In 1997 the
Hjallerup Kulturhus was inaugurated.