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RINGKØBING CASE STUDY - LANDUSE PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
The city of Ringkøbing - the development of the town Ringkøbing is bound to the west and south west by a large inlet (the Ringkøbing Fjord). To the north west and north the city is bound by wetland and the stream, the Vona. To the east is arable land, which like the city itself, lies on old sandy moraine. There are also some areas with sandy aeolic deposits east of the city. see Geology map. Most of these are afforested. The landscape is without much relief, reaching from sea level to about 10 metres, see figure below. Ringkøbing is an old provincial town dating back to around 1200. It was favoured by its position as a natural harbour in the inlet of Ringkøbing Fjord along the west coast of Jutland and it had royal privileges for commerce. The old city centre is very well preserved with houses typical of the l9th century. But some of the grid of narrow cobbled streets dates back to the oldest town, of which only a few buildings are left. In 1875 the railway was established in the low meadows between Ringkøbing and the old village of Rindum to the west. New commerce and industry made the town grow towards the railway and along the new main road to the east. The number of inhabitants and the size of the town have grown dramatically since the 1950s. The number of inhabitants has doubled, and there is now a population about 9,300 in the urban area. The town has overgrown the village of Rindum and has also grown in a south easterly direction along the shore and to the east. The newer growth of the urban area has been caused by the building of detached houses since the 1960s. More than 50% of the homes in Ringkøbing are detached houses. Since the end of the 1970s semi-detached houses have comprised a growing part of new development. There are only a few areas with apartment blocks. These 3/4 storey buildings were built around 1970. Figure 2 Ringkøbing is shown the original map is at the scale of 1:25,000. The distribution of housing types in the entire municipality (1996) is as follows, according to the Municipal Structure Plan, 1997-2009: Detached houses 3907 Semi-detached houses 1072 Farmhouses, rural
houses 1101 Apartments in blocks 1138 Others 190 Total 7408 It should be noted that many of the apartments are situated in 2 or 3 storey old houses in the centre of Ringkøbing. There are only about 350 flats in housing blocks from the 1960s or 1970s, all administered by the Ringkøbing Co-operative Housing Society. They also administer nearly 500 tenancies in semi-detached houses and they continue to build only semi-detached housing. There has been a growing interest in building detached houses, following a period in the l990s with hardly any such activity. The municipality expects to build around 80 new homes every year in the current period of planning (1997-2009) and so far most of these homes are detached houses in Ringkøbing itself. 17,500 people live in the entire municipality and 9,300 in Ringkøbing itself. Inhabitants in the municipality of Ringkøbing (Municipal Structure Plan, 1997-2009) 0-19 years 20-64 years 65+ years Total 1987 30% 55% 15% 17,000 1997 28% 57% 15% 17,500
Ringkøbing is the administrative centre of the county, which covers the central and western part of Jutland (Ringkøbing County). Return to top of page for menu or continue by clicking arrow
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