Videbæk is a town in West Jutland with 4,309 inhabitants (2020), located 34 km south of Holstebro, 24 km west of Herning, 20 km north of Skjern and 25 km east of Ringkøbing. The city belongs to Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality and is located in the Central Jutland Region. Videbæk belongs to Videbæk Parish. Videbæk Church is located in the city.
West Jutland's Art Pavilion is
located in Videbæk's amusement park with a view of a lake. The
pavilion was designed by Henning Larsen Architects and was opened on
1 June 2012. It is located by the former Sportsvej, which on 1 March
2015 was renamed Henning Larsens Vej to honor the famous architect,
who was born in Opsund 4 km west of Videbæk .
In 2017, the
art pavilion was expanded with another white horizontal, square
building that houses a museum for Arne Haugen Sørensen, who himself
has donated a large valuable collection of works to the museum. The
two buildings are built together at an oblique angle, leaving a
V-shaped space. The walls of the buildings consist of sloping pieces
that can be seen as a play with Videbæk's landmark, the V.
Videbæk School has 433 students, divided into 0.-9.
grade level in 2-3 tracks. It is a superstructure school for Vorgod
School, Fjelstervang School and Nørre Vium-Troldhede School, which
only has 0th-6th grade.
Close to Videbæk School is Videbæk Sports
and Leisure Center, which has two sports halls, swimming pool,
bowling alley, exercise and fitness equipment and 16 double rooms.
Videbæk Christian Free School was established in 1976 and has 263
students, divided into 0.-9. grade. The school has its own sports
hall.
The city has 3 kindergartens: The sunbeam from 1968 is
rated for 63 children and has 15 employees. Lions Clubs Kindergarten
is a self-governing institution, established in 1973 by Lions Club
Videbæk. It is rated for 63 children and has 21 employees. Gl.
Kongevej is rated for 40 kindergarten children, and there are 12
children in the nursery. The playground and the house are also used
by approx. 50 daycare children. The institution has 33 employees.
Videbæk Assembly House was built in 1906 and has room for 120 people
in the large hall and 30 in the small hall.
Hotel Falken in the
western end of the town has 43 rooms, an apartment of 80 m² with
sleeping accommodation for 10 people, 4 function and course rooms
with a capacity for 120 people and a swimming pool. The hotel
belongs to the chain Danske Hoteller A / S.
The city has two
mission houses: Indre Missions on Nygade, built in 2001, and
Lutheran Missions on Høgevej. Lutheran Mission also owns the nursing
home Bakkely, which has 38 homes.
Centerparken Ældrecenter has 21
nursing homes, 2 relief rooms as well as 10 internal nursing homes
and 16 external ones.
At Gammel Kongevej 33 is Videbækegnens
Lokalhistoriske Arkiv, which belongs to Videbæk Egnsmuseum in the
neighboring town Vorgod-Barde.
The town has 2 supermarkets, 3
pizzerias, bakery, library, Nordea department, medical center,
dentist and veterinary clinic.
The inn
By the country road Aarhus-Silkeborg-Herning-Ringkøbing,
which was built in the 1850s, an inn was built, which became Videbæk's
first house. The inn burned down in 1907, but was rebuilt and changed
its name from Videbæk Kro to Westergaards Hotel. After a thorough
renovation in 1997, it had only 5 rooms, which were individually
decorated and each had its own name. The hotel closed on 1 November
2020.
The village
In 1879 the town was described as follows:
"Videbæk with Inn".
In 1904, the town is described as follows:
"Videbæk (a part of Vorgod S.), by the country road, with school,
meeting house (built in 1886), Epidemihus (built in 1892 for DKK 15,000,
with disinfection facility and 14 beds; owned by the county
municipality) , District doctor's residence, Veterinarian, Refuge,
Sparekasse for Vorgod and N.-Vium-Herborg Municipality (established in
1868...Number of accounts 648), several merchants, etc., Inn, Market
place (Market in Feb., June and Oct. ) and Telephone no.
Parish
and municipality
Videbæk initially belonged to Vorgod Parish. Its
western part was separated in 1898 as Herborg Parish with a new church
in Herborg, consecrated in 1899. It was also to accommodate Videbæk, but
it was not satisfactory, so Videbæk got its own church and priest in
1914. Videbæk Parish was separated in 1916, but belonged to Nørre
Vium-Herborg parish municipality until the municipal reform in 1970.
Here Videbæk became the municipal seat of Videbæk Municipality, which in
the structural reform in 2007 was included in Ringkøbing-Skjern
Municipality.
The station town
Videbæk got a railway station
on the Skjern-Videbæk line (1920-1981). Videbæk Station was the terminus
and was built on the north-eastern edge of the city because it was
believed that the line should be extended to Skive. So in 1930, Videbæk
step board was established, which was closer to the town center at
Gammel Kongevej.
The low measuring table sheet shows that the
town also had a dairy, a pharmacy, a midwife's house and a mission house
after the track was established.
The well-preserved station
building is located on Stationsvej 40, and the other houses on the east
side of Stationsvej were built on the station area, which DSB sold
already in 1955, when passenger traffic ceased.
From the bus
station, the track has been preserved for just over 3 km to Herborg,
from where you can ride 12½ km on a rail bike to the edge of Skjern. The
rail bikes are maintained by the association Videbæk-Skjern Veteran and
Model Railway and are rented out in Astrup Købmanshandel.
Arla (Arinco) dairy and Vestas have branches in Videbæk. A large biogas plant processes 600,000 tonnes of biomass per year, including residual products from the dairy, and produces biogas for the dairy.