Ars

Aars stands in Himmerland, the country south of the Limfjord. Its name appears in 1345, when the surrounding Års hundred was also recorded. At the church is a runestone raised by Asser in memory of his lord Valtoke; it was rediscovered in Aars in 1654. The settlement remained a modest rural centre, with a church and parsonage, and by the end of the eighteenth century it also had a post office.