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13 unusual facts about Jutland


Aalborghus Gymnasium

Aalborghus Gymnasium is a secondary school in the city of Aalborg, in North Jutland in Denmark.

Bremervörde

By 1111 the Saxon Duke Lothair of Supplinburg, later king of the Holy Roman Empire, erected castrum vorde, the Vörde Castle at an Oste ford, important for the Oxen Way, an ancient trackway connecting Jutland with Westphalia.

Det Blå Marked

The current flagship property is located in the town of Låsby in Jutland, and is a major tourist attraction, bringing in over half a million visitors every year.

Fra Mols til Skagen

Mols is located in eastern Jutland, with Skagen being the northernmost town in the country, so the pair of locations does not span very much of Denmark.

Frederik Bergmann Larsen

I the book, Jyske byer og deres mænd (en: Cities and People from Jutland), he is mentioned as "miracle doctor", known by people in the whole Jutland.

Ingeborg Skeel

Ingeborg Skeel (c. 1545 – 17 October 1604) was a Danish noblewoman, a major land owner and a county sheriff in the Vendsyssel region of northern Jutland.

Jutland

The medieval Code of Jutland applied for Schleswig until 1900 when it was replaced by the Prussian Civil Code.

Aarhus, Silkeborg, Billund, Randers, Kolding, Horsens, Vejle, Fredericia, Haderslev along with a number of smaller towns make up the East Jutland metropolitan area.

The area is called the North Jutlandic Island, Vendsyssel-Thy (after its districts) or simply Jutland north of the Limfjord; it is only partly coterminous with the region called North Jutland.

K. J. V. Steenstrup

Knud Johannes Vogelius Steenstrup (September 7, 1842 in Høstemark Mill in Mou, Northern Jutland – May 6, 1913) was a Danish geologist and explorer of Greenland.

Klitgaard

As a place name it is found in a few locations in Northern Jutland.

Louis Pio

His father was an officer in the Danish Army, of French ancestry, and his mother came from a North Jutland bourgeois family.

Vollsmose terrorists

According to news reports Lars had worked as an integration counselor in Jutland in 2001 when he was attacked by a person of Middle Eastern background.


350 BC

Tollund Man, human sacrifice victim on the Jutland peninsula in Denmark, possibly the earliest known evidence for worship of the Norse god Odin (approximate date)

A. J. Iversen

Born in Sønder Bjert near Kolding in the south of Jutland, Iversen first worked as a fisherman like his father.

Aabybro Municipality

The municipality included several small islands in the Limfjord, the waterway that separates the main body of the Jutland peninsula from the island of Vendsyssel-Thy, including Tagholme.

Aarhus Municipality

Aarhus Municipality, also commonly known by its older Danish spelling Århus Municipality, is a municipality (Danish, kommune) on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark.

Ancient See of Børglum

The ancient bishopric of Børglum, sometimes also known as the bishopric of Vendsyssel, seated latterly at Børglum in Denmark, comprised the ancient districts of Vendsyssel and Thy, which between them included the whole of the north of the Jutland peninsula beyond the Limfjord.

Bodil Koch

It came as a surprise to many that she as a female, an academic, and practicing Protestant from Copenhagen could be elected in a rural area Herning in Jutland.

Danes

The Bobbio Orosius distinguishes between South Danes inhabiting Jutland and North Danes inhabiting the isles and the province of Scania.

Elsje Christiaens

Shortly after Elsje had come to Amsterdam from her native Jutland to seek work as a maid, she got into an argument with her landlady at the Damrak because she couldn't pay the rent.

Emilie Demant Hatt

Emilie Demant Hansen was born in 1873 to a merchant's family in Selde, by the Limfjord in northern Jutland, Denmark.

Erkki-Sven Tüür

His Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, entitled "Illuminatio", was premiered by violist Lars Anders Tomter and South Jutland Symphony Orchestra in October 2008.

Frederick VI of Denmark

After the discovery of the Haraldskær Woman in a peat bog in Jutland in the year 1835, Frederick VI ordered a royal interment in an elaborately carved sarcophagus for the Iron Age mummy, decreeing it to be the body of Queen Gunnhild.

Heinkel He 219

When the war had ended in Europe, the U.S. Army Air Forces Intelligence Service, as part of "Operation Lusty" (LUftwaffe Secret TechnologY), took control of three He 219s at the Grove base of the 1st Night Fighter Wing (Nachtjagdgeschwader 1) in Jutland, Denmark starting on 16 June 1945.

Ingeborg of Kiev

Ingeborg Mstislavna of Kiev (fl. 1137) was a Russian princess, married to the Danish prince Canute Lavard of Jutland.

John Cornwell

Jack Cornwell, posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry at the Battle of Jutland

Jutland Peninsula

The historic region of Jutland, the area that was covered by Codex Holmiensis (Jyske Lov) covered the Jutland Peninsula area north of Eider River and included Funen, the North Jutlandic Island and other smaller islands.

Kinsarvik

In the time of Julius Caesar a clan known as Charudes was reported to live in the Jutland region of Denmark.

Lyman Knute Swenson

Twice torpedoed during what historian S. E. Morison called the “wildest most desperate sea fight since Jutland”, Juneau sank rapidly, taking under the captain and most of her crew, including the five Sullivan brothers.

Møgeltønder

Møgeltønder Church is one of the largest village churches in the southern Jutland and has a rich interior e.g. a painting of the Golden Horns of Gallehus discovered at Gallehus just north of the town.

North Jutland

North Jutland County, prior administrative region covering North Jutland

North Denmark Region, administrative region covering North Jutland and minor parts of central Jutland

Vendsyssel, the district that makes up most of North Jutland

Nymindegab

Nymindegab lies in Southwest Jutland, Denmark, and is a former fishing village by the former outflow at the southern end of Ringkøbing Fjord.

Oslo Operaball

The Jutland Opera (den Jyske Opera) has organized several masquerade balls after visiting the Oslo Opera Ball and with participation from Oslo, with a masked Ball held on 5 February 2005.

Øm

Øm Abbey, an old monastery (now ruins) in central Jutland, Denmark

Ptolemy's world map

The most prominent feature of the map is the peninsula Jutland placed north of the river Albis Trêva, west of the Saxonôn Nesôi (archipelago), east of the Skandiai Nêsoi, which itself lies west of a larger island Skandia.

North of Jutland lies a third archipelago Alokiai Nêsoi.

Pukekohe High School

Jellicoe House named after Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe 1st Earl Jellicoe (GCB, OM, GCVO) commonly known as Lord Jellicoe who was the Royal Navy commander of the Grand Fleet of the Battle of Jutland in World War I.

Queen Mary

HMS Queen Mary, a battlecruiser of the Royal Navy launched in 1912 and lost at the battle of Jutland in 1916.

St Paul's Church, Aarhus

Located at the end of the slightly inclined M. P. Bruunsgade, the church was designed by Vilhelm Theodor Walther, Jutland's royal inspector of buildings, on land which was donated by the textile manufacturer Mads Pagh Bruun on condition the church should look towards the town.

Staffort

During the 18th and 19th centuries nearly 100 inhabitants left the village to relocate in America, Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Jutland, Prussia, Russia, Serbia and Styria.

The Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark

The earlier part of Ken Follett's novel "Hornet Flight", taking place in World War II Nazi-occupied Denmark, is set in West Jutland community dominated by the Inner Mission.

Tourism in Denmark

Among Jutland's regional attractions are Legoland close to Billund Airport, the easterly village of Ebeltoft with its cobbled streets and half-timbered houses, Skagen in the far north famous for its seascapes and artist community and the north-west beach resorts of Løkken and Lønstrup.

Vendsyssel

National route 11 connects Vendsyssel with Hanherred and Thy before crossing the Limfjord to western Jutland on the Oddesund Bridge.

Viggo Johansen

Viggo Johansen (3 January 1851 – 18 December 1935) was a Danish painter and active member of the group of Skagen Painters who met every summer in the north of Jutland.

Vorup Frederiksberg Boldklub

From August 1970 women also played football in association with Vorup FB, and from the onset participated in the tournament established for Jutland and Funen the following year.

Wehha of East Anglia

According to R. Rainbird Clarke, migrants from northern Jutland "speedily dominated" the Sandlings, an area of southeast Suffolk, and then, by around 550, "lost no time in conquering the whole of East Anglia".