Odsherred Kommune - Sonnenwagen Von Trundholm, Nykobing Sjaelland, Kongsore Skov, Troldhoj Von Stenstrup, Sjaellands Odde, Odsherred (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Sonnenwagen Von Trundholm, Nykobing Sjaelland, Kongsore Skov, Troldhoj Von Stenstrup, Sjaellands Odde, Odsherred, Engelstrupstenen, Nykobing-Rorvig Kommune, Trundholm Kommune, Dragsholm Kommune. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Odsherred is a peninsula in the north-western part of the island Zealand (Sjaelland) in Denmark. Odsherred is stretching from the Sjaellands Odde in the north-west to the now drained fjord Lammefjord in the south, covering an area with a wide range of the most typical Danish landscapes such as long sandy beaches, small rolling hills and much farming. The peninsula is bound together by the railroad Odsherredsbanen, which runs through the most important towns such as Nykobing Sjaelland, Asnaes and Horve. The last part of the name herred derives from a medieval practice of dividing the country in districts herreder which created the frame for regional justice and possibly also for recruitment of soldiers to the national army and fleet. You can say that they somehow correspond to today's counties. Odsherred was only one out of many of such herreder, since every part of the country was also a part of a herred. Since the administrative importance of the herreder ended in 1919, the before so normal name began to disappear from common use all over the country. It is however still to be found in areas such as Hornsherred and Han Herred and Odsherred. The first habitations in Odsherred reach back to the stone age. One of the most fascinating remains from that time, the entire sceleton of a giant oxe killed by prehistoric hunters, can now be seen at the Zoological museum in Copenhagen, where it is now part of the exhibition concerning prehistoric animals. Before that it was visible for guests at the now closed museum in the village of Hove. Another period whose remains can still be found in Odsherred today is the bronze age, since the poluation of that time buried their dead in small artificial hills ...http: //booksllc.ne