rederick VI
By 1789, the population of Stege had climbed to 791 with 7,000 people on the island. In 1797, Antione de Calmette was placed in charge of the county, and was, for once, a respected leader.
In 1857, the town trade monopoly was finally abolished.
At the start of the 1900s about 14,000 people lived on the island. This figure then fell, but stabilised in the 1970s
