Despite the town's relatively small size, Ølgod calls itself "Denmark's smallest city" due to its relatively large amount of shops, restaurants, associations, healthcare opportunities etc.[4]
Ølgod Church
Ølgod Church
Ølgod Church is built in the Romanesque style, presumably as a manor church, around 1200. The church tower was built around 1500, while the altarpiece is from 1596.[5]
Museums
the entrance of Ølgod Museum and the Culture House
Ølgod Museum, located in the Culture House, tells the story of Danish agriculture, from poor heath farmers to democratic modern farmers.
Hjedding Andelsmejeri - the dairy museum
Hjedding Andelsmejeri, situated about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Ølgod, was the first cooperative dairy in Denmark, founded in 1882. Now it is a museum where the machines that helped to revolutionise the Danish dairy operation are on display.
Ølgod Municipality
The former Ølgod Municipality covered an area of 247 square kilometres (95 sq mi) and had a total population of 11,351 as of 2005. Ølgod Municipality's last mayor was Erik Buhl Nielsen.
Ølgod native Maren Madsen Christensen wrote a memoir titled Fra Jyllands Brune Heder til Landet Over Havet (Eng: From Jutland's Brown Heather to the Land Across the Sea) about her time growing up in Denmark and her later life in Yarmouth, Maine. Christensen died in 1965, aged 93.[6]
Notable people
Mette Magrete Tvistman (1741–1827), the first female clockmaker in Denmark. She had her own workshop in Ølgod from 1787 to 1798.
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