Ølsted, Aarhus Municipality
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56°13′59″N 10°08′13″E / 56.233°N 10.137°E
Ølsted is a small village in Aarhus Municipality, near the east coast of the Central Denmark Region, Denmark. It is located in a rural setting, 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of the town of Trige – near enough that they share a Trige-Ølsted Joint Council.[1]
Ølsted is 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the town of Søften, and 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of the city of Aarhus. Ølsted consists of a number of older houses and several farms, though its proximity to Aarhus has attracted some commuters, with the Trige-Ølsted Joint Council noting in 2020 that "in recent years more detached houses have been added."[1]
The village has Ølsted Church. Students from Ølsted, up to grade 9, attend Bakkegårdsskolen in Trige.[2]
The town has a common postal district (8380) with Trige and Spørring.
There may have been a manor house in the village during the 14th century, as Jens Peter Trap, in his seminal Statistical-Topographical Description of the Kingdom of Denmark (1904, 3rd edition, if not earlier editions), includes "Johannes Pedersen of Ølsted is mentioned in 1356".[3]
