page_title: Skævinge
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Skævinge / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of Sjævinge Sogn 1889
context_page_description: Skævinge is a town with a population of 2,642 and a former municipality in Hillerød municipality in Capital Region of Denmark in the northern part of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The former Skævinge municipality covered an area of 68 km², and had a total population of 6,046.
  On 1 January 2007 Skævinge municipality ceased to exist as the result of Kommunalreformen. It was merged into existing Hillerød municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 191 km² and a total population of ca. 43,337.
context_section_description: The name is first documented in 1211-14 as Skeping. The first part of the name may be derived from Old Danish skap , meaning "something excavated'. The suffix -inge is frequently seen in Danish toponyms.
  Skævinge was a village of considerable size in the Middle Ages but later shrunk and the parishes of Skævinge and Gørløse were therefore merged. The civil parish of Skævinge-Gørlse was formed in the 1840s.  The opening of the Hillerød-Frederiksvværk Railway in 1897 brought new development to the town and by the 1940s Skævinge was by far the largest village in the area between Hillerød, Frederiksværk and Frederikssund.
  The 1970 Danish Municipal Reform merged Skævinge-Gørløse with the civil parishes of Strø and Store Lyngby under the new Skævinge Municipality. It was incorporated in Gillerød Municipality in 2007.
caption: Map of the parish of Skævinge in 1889
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