Vinderup Municipality


Vinderup Municipality is a former municipality in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. The former Vinderup municipality covered an area of 224 km2, and had a total population of 8,035. Its last mayor was Holger Hedegaard, a member of the Venstre political party. The main town of the municipality was the railway town of Vinderup.
The municipality was created in 1970 due to a kommunalreform that combined a number of existing parishes:
On January 1, 2007 Vinderup municipality ceased to exist due to Kommunalreformen. It was merged with Holstebro and Ulfborg-Vemb municipalities to form an enlarged Holstebro municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 790 km2 and a total population of 56,204.