Nyborg Castle was built in 1170, and the city built up around the castle around that time. Nyborg Municipality as an administrative region has existed since the rule of
Valdemar II of Denmark, who granted Nyborg the rights of a
market town (Danish:
Købstad). A royal charter from 1193 indicates that the city has been granted the status of a market town even earlier. Nyborg Castle became the seat of the
Danish Court (Danish:
Danehof), giving the town numerous unique privileges. Among those privileges were the fact that the merchants of Vindinge Hundred had to go to Nyborg to sell their wares. In 1410, the market town of Nyborg was given the same privileges as that of
Odense, an even older market town. The privileges were expanded in 1446, where the merchants of Gudme Hundred also had to go to Nyborg with their wares. Harbours between
Kerteminde,
Svendborg and Slipshavn were also outlawed, and Nyborg was given permission to arrange a large yearly market. The year after the privileges of 1446, artisans from Vindinge Hundred were told to move to the market towns, expanding the importance of the market town of Nyborg. With the king visiting regularly, due to Nyborg's central location and the castle being the seat of the Danehof, Nyborg was given many additional privileges over the years. In 1662, Denmark's administrative divisions were changed. Fiefs (Danish:
Len) were dissolved and the country split into several amts.
Nyborg County was created, and besides the market town of Nyborg, it included the hundreds of Vindinge Hundred, Sunds Hundred, Gudme Hundred, Sallinge Hundred and the eastern part of Bjerge Hundred. It also included ten
birks: Hindsholm, Holckenhavn, Ravnholt, Glorup, Hesselager, Brahetrolleborg, Holstenshuus, Vantinge, Avernakø and Strynø. In 1793, Nyborg County was dissolved and merged with
Tranekær County to become a part of
Svendborg County, with its seat in
Svendborg. This changed again in the
1970 Danish Municipal Reform, where Svendborg Country and
Odense County were merged to form
Funen County. The hundreds, market towns and birks were dissolved in the municipal reform of 1970 and split Denmark into 277 municipalities. Nyborg Municipality was formed of the market town of Nyborg, and its
parishes, as well as the two parish municipalities of Avnslev-Bovense and Vindinge. In the Municipality Reform of 2007 Nyborg Municipality was merged with
Ørbæk and
Ullerslev Municipality to form a new
Nyborg Municipality. It was in 2005 suggested that Nyborg should not only be merged with Ørbæk and Ullerslev, but also with the municipalities of
Munkebo,
Langeskov and
Kerteminde to create one large Eastern Funen municipality. The reason was that the new
Kerteminde Municipality would have too small of a population to function properly. In the end, Nyborg and Kerteminde weren't merged and became two separate municipalities.
Historical divisions ==Towns==