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Ringsted "Saint Bendt's Church (Skt. Bendts Kirke) in Ringsted, Denmark. Photograph: ©1963 Hans Jørn Storgaard Andersen." is a city in Ringsted municipality located in the middle of the Danish island of Zealand. The population is 30,800 (2004).

Ringsted is located approximately 70 km from Copenhagen and provides a railway station with both national and international stops (EuroCity).

table Sankt Bendts Kirke ("Church of Saint Benedict")— Romanesque, former Benedictine abbey church, royal tombs.

History

Regicide city. In 1137, King Canute Lavard was killed in Haraldsted forest, leading to outbreaks of civil war.

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