Ebeltoft Municipality  Until 1 January 2007, Ebeltoft municipality was a municipality (Danish, "kommune") in Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The region lies in a geographic region known as southern "Djursland", and more specifically "Mols". The municipality covered an area of 276 km2, and had a total population of 14.997 (2003). Its last mayor was Jørgen Brøgger. The main town and the site of its municipal council was the town of Ebeltoft. Ebeltoft municipality ceased to exist as the result of "Kommunalreformen" ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with existing Midtdjurs, Rosenholm, and Rønde municipalities to form the new Syddjurs municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 693 km2 and a total population of 40,196 (2005). The new municipality belongs to Region Midtjylland ("Mid-Jutland Region"). The municipality itself consisted of two smaller peninsulas that jut out into the surrounding waters, one to the south, and the other to the west. The southward peninsula, which contains the town of Ebeltoft, is surrounded on the east by Hjelm Deep, which separates the area from the small island of Hjelm off its eastern coast. To the west of this peninsula is Ebeltoft Cove ("Ebeltoft Vig") which forms a bay between the southward peninsula and the headland formed to the south of the westward peninsula, Helge Headland ("Helgenæs"). To the west of Helge Headland is Aarhus Bay ("Aarhus Bugt"). To the northwest of the westward peninsula is Knebel Cove ("Knebel Vig") and Kalø Cove ("Kalø Vig"). The municipality also was home to Lake Stubbe ("Stubbe Sø") and several high elevations. The high hilly moraine landscape is called Mols Bjerge (*Mols Hills*), and is a protected as Mols Bjerge National Park. Some of the highest elevations in the area are "Agri Bavnehøj" at 137 meters, "Trehøje" at 127 meters, and "Stabelhøjene" at 135 and 133 meters in height. The area has many burial mounds, stone monuments and graves, including "Porskær Stenhus", Denmark's largest stone burial chamber near the town of Knebel.