Funen County Funen County Fyns Amt (English: Funen County) is a former county (Danish, "amt") in central Denmark, comprising the islands of Funen, Langeland, Tåsinge, Ærø, and approximately 90 other islands, of which only 25 are inhabited. The county was formed on 1 April 1970, comprising the former counties of Odense and Svendborg. The county was abolished from 1 January 2007, when it merged into Region Syddanmark (i.e. "Region South Denmark"). The county employed around 20,000 people working in more than 160 institutions located all over Funen. Funen County's coat of arms showed three connected gold hop leaves on a field of
German invasion of Denmark (1940) on the runways in huge numbers. More than 200 landings and take-offs were recorded on the first day, most of them transporting troops and fuel to Fornebu Airport in Norway. In Esbjerg, a 75mm anti-aircraft gun damaged a German aircraft. In order to capture the connections between Jutland and Zealand the "Kriegsmarine" landed more troops from the 198th Infantry Division at Funen. At the same time troops landed in Korsør and Nyborg, thereby cutting off the connections between Funen and Zealand. The troops in Korsør met no resistance and hurried towards Copenhagen which they reached at noon. A little before,