Helsinge

Helsinge is the municipal seat of Gribskov municipality in Region Hovedstaden on Zealand in Denmark with a population of 8,104 1 January 2015. The town was years ago elected the ugliest town in Denmark by a journalist from national televisioncitation needed, Peter Olesen, which is why among its inhabitants it has the popular name Hæslinge Recently a great wall was built as a kind of town portal, but that has got the nickname the Berlin Wall, because it divides the space in an unfortunate way. In early 19th century Helsinge was as small as the nearby villages, but it had an inn and a church and the vicar had another parish under him, Valby.

Through the 19th century Helsinge grew. In 1840 23% of the 1258 inhabitants in the parish lived in the city, but in 1901 the percentage was 43% of 1647. In the meantime the town had got among other things both a judge 1848, a doctor 1859, a post office 1863, telegraphy 1872 and a railroad 1897.