Slagelse

Slagelse stands in western Zealand, near the Viking ring fortress of Trelleborg, built around 980. A church stood in Slagelse itself by the eleventh century, when coins were also struck there. Valdemar I founded nearby Antvorskov in the twelfth century for the Knights Hospitaller. Erik V granted Slagelse market-town privileges in 1288, placing it in competition with the neighbouring towns of Korsør and Skælskør. A new road from Copenhagen to Korsør passed through Slagelse in the 1780s.