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Denmark is a village in Brown County, Wisconsin, located within the town of New Denmark about 15 miles southeast of Green Bay, whose metropolitan area it belongs to.

Denmark began to be settled by Danish immigrants in 1848 and, along with Hartland, Wisconsin, has been called a nucleus of what became one of the most important regions of Danish immigration in the United States.

The area's first Danish settlers, Niels Gotfredsen and his wife, who bought 160 acres in 1848, were nicknamed the 'King and Queen of Denmark.'

In a famous 1854 episode, men from De Pere paid Denmark's voters two dollars each to back De Pere in the Brown County seat vote; the $30 the town earned built a school instead of the church that had been intended.

Hans Beyer opened Denmark's first business, a store, in 1875, and in 1896 he built the village's first cheese factory, launching the dairy industry that long defined the village.

Under the Lake to Lake dairy cooperative, Denmark's cheese plant became the second-largest cheddar cheese producer in Wisconsin, before Land O' Lakes closed it in 2014.

The Chicago & North Western railroad was built through Denmark in 1906, and the village incorporated in 1915 after residents voted 109 to 26 in favor.

A Ford dealership established by the Kriwanek Brothers in Denmark in 1915 was the second-oldest Ford dealership in Wisconsin.

On March 3, 1949, the Denmark State Bank was robbed of $38,000 at gunpoint — the first bank robbery in Brown County history.

The 2020 census counted 2,408 people in Denmark, up from 2,123 in 2010, when the village had 923 households.