Hesselager

Hesselager
Town
Hesselager Inn
Hesselager Inn
Hesselager is located in Region of Southern Denmark
Hesselager
Hesselager
Coordinates: 55°10′21″N 10°44′24″E / 55.17250°N 10.74000°E / 55.17250; 10.74000
CountryDenmark
RegionSouthern Denmark
MunicipalitySvendborg
Population
 (2024)[1]
 • Total
822
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Hesselager is a small town located on the island of Funen in south-central Denmark, in Svendborg Municipality. It is located 19 km south of Nyborg, 7 km northwest of Lundeborg and 18 km northeast of Svendborg.

Close to the village stands the Damestenen (or Hesselagerstenen), the biggest glacial erratic of Denmark.[2]

  1. ^ BY1: Population 1 January, by urban areas The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark
  2. ^ (in French), Valdemar Johan Heinrich Nordmann, Victor Christian Madsen (Danmarks geologiske undersøgelse), Compte rendu de la Réunion géologique internationale à Copenhague, 1928, C. A. Reitzel, 1930, p. 37.