Hanstholm is the name used for a small elevated area in Hanstholm municipality of Viborg County, located in the northern part of Denmark. Coordinates: 57°07′12″N, 08°37′12″E. Population of the area is about 3,500 (2004). Hanstholm municipality is a Danish municipality (Danish, kommune) in Viborg County on the northwest coast of Vendsyssel-Thy, a part of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. ... Viborg and Nyslott County was a county in Finnish Karelia 1634–1743, returned to Finland 1812–1944 under the name of Viborg County Viborgs Amt (English Viborg County) is a county in western Denmark, in the north-central part of the peninsula of Jutland. ...

Today, Hanstholm designates the combined town of Hansted, Gårddal and Nørby, is used on traffic signs and as postcode. However, the towns Hansted, Nørby, Gårddal, Ræhr, Hamborg, Bjerre, Febbersted, Krog, Nytorp and Vigsø are all located on Hanstholm, and for many people, the harbor town is still named Hansted. The three most important place names on Hanstholm today are Hanstholm/Hansted, Ræhr and Vigsø. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... UK and Australian postal codes are known as postcodes. ...

• Hansted means "The place of Han". This suffix is often used with town names in Denmark.
• Hanstholm means "The island of Han".
• Hanherred means "The herred of Han", where herred is an administrative division.

Geography

Neighboring municipalities are Fjerritslev to the east and Thisted to the south. To the north is Vigsø Bay (‘’Vigsø Bugt’’) a part of Skagerak. To the west is the North Sea. Fjerritslev is a municipality in northern Denmark, in the county of North Jutland on the peninsula of Jutland. ... View of harbour and beach in Vorupør,Denmark. ... Categories: Sweden geography stubs | Norway geography stubs | Danish stubs ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ...

The ferry Norröna that can carry cars goes from Hansted to Faroe Islands, Iceland, Shetland Islands and Norway. It is the only way to transport a car to these islands. The Pride of Burgundy, a P&O Ferries car ferry on the Dover-Calais route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on scheduled services. ... See Shetland (disambiguation) for other meanings. ...

The northern part of Denmark is rising because of plate tectonics, and has lifted the island of Hanstholm out of the water, so that it is no longer an island, but an elevated area. You can still see two old farms, the one named Bådsgård, which means boat farm, is located on the previous island Hanstholm. the second one named Færgegård is located in Sårup towards Hansted. Today you can simply drive between Sårup and Hansted. The tectonic plates of the world were mapped in the second half of the 20th century. ...

Urban planning

As Hansted grew from a couple of hundred people to several thousand people during the 20th century, some urban planning was applied. It seems to have been modeled in the same way as other growing Danish towns in the 1960s, which basically means that you can drive through the city without noticing the size of it. (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Paris, France: Began unplanned, but was later re-engineered through the construction of an extensive system of wide boulevards overlaid on the medieval street grid, by the Baron Haussmann under the reign of Napoleon III in the 19th century. ...

Most shopping is concentrated in a shopping mall (Hanstholm Centret), and there are separate pedestrian and bicycle path covering most of the city.

History

Prehistoric

Several excavations have shown, that Hanstholm area was inhabited by farmers 1000 B.C.

Teutons

In the year 120 B.C., teutons inhabited the area, but left in a big exodus, together with the Cimbri, towards the south, where they encountered the romans. This entry is about the Teutonic people, not to be confused with the Teutonic Knights. ... The migrations of the Teutons and the Cimbri The Cimbri were a Proto-Germanic tribe who according to Pliny the Elder lived on Jutland (Chersonesus Cimbrica), and the Jutish region of Himmerland (where the contemporary Gundestrup cauldron was found) is thought to preserve their name (cf. ...

Age of the vikings

In the years 800 to 1050, Hanstholm and the area around it were islands, and nearby was the gathering point for the Vikings for their invasions of England and France. Events December 25, Rome, coronation of Charles the Great (Charlemagne) as emperor by Pope Leo III. Celtic monks begin work on the Book of Kells on the Island of Iona. ... Events Leofric becomes Bishop of Exeter Births Margrave Leopold II of Austria (d. ... The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: England Travel guide to England from Wikitravel English language English law English (people) List of monarchs of England – Kings of England family tree List of English people Angeln (region in northern Germany, presumably the origin of the Angles for whom England is named) UK...

First christianity

According to the legend, the first Christian church in the Thy area was built in 1040 in Vestervig, where Christian priests coming from England entered Denmark. A big monastery was built here and this was the beginning to the end of the viking era. See also: Timeline of Christianity Beliefs Jesus crucifixion as portrayed by Diego Velázquez. ... A church building (or simply church) is a building used in Christian worship. ... Events March War of Independence of Western Xia occurred. ...

The churches in Hansted and Vigsø were built in the 12th century i roman style, and on Hansted church, one of the stones shows the picture of a trading vessel. This trading vessel has been used as model for the arms of Hanstholm municipality. (11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ... Hanstholm municipality is a Danish municipality (Danish, kommune) in Viborg County on the northwest coast of Vendsyssel-Thy, a part of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. ...

Norwegian trade

From approximately 1600 to approximately 1850, people from the area of Hanstholm traded a lot with Norway, with special boats across Skagerak. They exported food, mostly grain, and imported wood. There were no trees in the whole area, so wood was hard needed. // Events January January 1 - Scotland adopts January 1st as being New Years Day February February 17 - Giordano Bruno burned at the stake for heresy in Rome July July 2 - Battle of Nieuwpoort: Dutch forces under Maurice of Nassau defeat Spanish forces under Archduke Albert in a battle on the... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Categories: Sweden geography stubs | Norway geography stubs | Danish stubs ...

Sand drift

Climate changes in the 16th century to 18th century, together with deforestation etc. meant, that a lot of sand began to drift from the west coast towards inhabited areas south of Hanstholm. This threatened to make the soil unusable for agriculture. Numerous attempts to stop this finally succeeded in the 19th century by planting trees and lyme grass. However, especially the low areas between the former islands had already been covered with dunes. South of Hanstholm an area of ca 4000 hectars unique dune landscape now has become a wildlife reservation, named Hansted Reservat. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Hanstholm Lighthouse 1843

The lighthouse was initially built in 1842, but the construction was too weak, so it had to be torn down and rebuilt in 1843. It was the first lense-based lighthouse in Denmark. When it was electrified in 1889, it became the strongest lighthouse in Denmark, and still is today, even though the light intensity has been lowered today. In a period of its life, it was also the strongest lighthouse in the world. The lighthouse was automated in 1970, and in 1979 the buildings associated with the lighthouse were converted to a museum about the nature and history of the surrounding area. 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1843 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ...

From the top of the lighthouse, 65 meters above the ocean, you can see the entire area.

World War II

During the second world war, the citizens of Hansted were removed and Europe's biggest fortress was built by the Germans in this area. Cannons were installed, that could shoot almost half the distance to Norway, in order to block allied entry into the Kattegat and thus the Baltic sea. Similar cannons were installed in Kristiansand in Norway. There were thousands of bunkers in the area after the war. After the war it was too dangerous to blow them away and the bunkers themselves were too solid to remove in other ways. Therefore, most bunkers are still lying around in the ground, and some can even be seen on beaches or in the water, where the ocean has moved the coastline (the coastline moved, but the bunkers didn't). Only a few bunkers laying in the way for road constructions have later been blown up using a special method by filling them with water before the blowup. A museum in Hanstholm gives access to the central parts of this World War II fortress. German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... The Baltic Sea The Kattegat, or Kattegatt, is a bay of the North Sea and a continuation of the Skagerrak, bounded by Denmark and Sweden. ... The Baltic Sea is located in Northern Europe, from 53 deg. ... County Vest-Agder Landscape Sørlandet Municipality NO-1001 Administrative centre Kristiansand Mayor (2004) Jan Oddvar Skisland (KrF) Official language form BokmÃ¥l Area  - Total  - Land  - Percentage Ranked 287 277 km² 259 km² 0. ... A bunker is a defensive warfare fortification to protect personnel or equipment. ...

After the war, a lot of conifers were planted in order to provide shelter against the wind and in order to hide the German concrete constructions (ref. SkovOgNatur brochure). Orders & Families Cordaitales † Pinales   Pinaceae - Pine family   Araucariaceae - Araucaria family   Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family   Sciadopityaceae - Umbrella-pine family   Cupressaceae - Cypress family   Cephalotaxaceae - Plum-yew family   Taxaceae - Yew family Vojnovskyales † Voltziales † The conifers, division Pinophyta, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. ...

Bunker at Vigsø beach

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The harbor

Hanstholm is located on the northern edge of a salt dome, and this edge consists of very hard chalk, which is the reason that ice age erosion did not remove this formations. Because of the ways that the ocean streams go in this area, which prevented the ocean from freezing, and because of Hanstholms geographic location, Hanstholm is the perfect place to have an industrial harbor, open all year. A salt dome is formed when a thick bed of evaporite minerals (mainly salt, or halite) found at depth intrudes vertically into surrounding rock strata, forming a diapir. ... A harbor (AmE), harbour (CwE) or haven is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. ...

In 1917, the Danish parliament decided by law to build a harbor in Hanstholm. However, this was delayed by numerous incidents, including the low amount of resources available in the 1930's, and even though the Germans had plans to use the harbor as part of their strategy, when they occupied Denmark in the second world war, they stopped all construction in june 1943, removed all machines and blew up the buildings on the beach. 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. ... An aerial view of Parliament of India at New Delhi. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) is a common year starting on Friday. ...

After the second world war, a political struggle started to get the harbor finished, but the other harbors in Denmark feared this. A new law saw the day of light on april 29th, 1960. Finally, the harbor was completed and opened in 1967, and today it is the biggest harbor in Denmark. German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Future

In the framework of the Danish administrative reform Hanstholm municipality will merge with two other municipalities during the period 2006-2007. After that, Hanstholm municipality will cease to exist, and Hanstholm will be a part of the Thisted municipality. At the same time Viborg Amt will cease to exist and Hanstholm be a part of the new North Jutland Region. A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... View of harbour and beach in Vorupør,Denmark. ...

The conifers, that were planted to hide German remains after World War II, are now slowly being replaced by broadleaf trees, which are more natural to area. Orders & Families Cordaitales † Pinales   Pinaceae - Pine family   Araucariaceae - Araucaria family   Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family   Sciadopityaceae - Umbrella-pine family   Cupressaceae - Cypress family   Cephalotaxaceae - Plum-yew family   Taxaceae - Yew family Vojnovskyales † Voltziales † The conifers, division Pinophyta, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. ... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ...

Museums

There are two museums in Hanstholm, but the most famous one must be the one where you can go down into the bunkers from World War II, see how the soldiers lived, drive the ammunition train from ammunition depots to the cannons, and you can see the places of the huge cannons and get your own impression of how huge they were.

References

• Very good map of Hanstholm as PDF file
• Hanstholm described by the Vognstoft family
• Hanstholm Municipality
• Museumscenter Hanstholm
• Picture of the remains of the ferry farm in Sårup (with explanation in Danish)

Links

• Hanstholm portal
• Port of Hanstholm
• Hanstholm tourism info
• A temporary homepage for the new municipality under which Hanstholm will belong
• The future homepage of the municipality for which Hanstholm will belong from year 2007

• Hansted church community
• Ræhr church community
• Vigsø church community

• Map of the coastline about year 1000
• Danish government tour guides

• A description of the town Sårup
• An old map showing the southern part of Hanstholm[[fo:Hanstholm_kommuna]