Drastrup | |
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Coordinates: 56°26′40″N10°10′12″E / 56.444444°N 10.170111°E Coordinates: 56°26′40″N10°10′12″E / 56.444444°N 10.170111°E | |
Country | Denmark |
Region | Central Denmark (Midtjylland) |
Municipality | Randers |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 28 |
Time zone | Central Europe Time (UTC+1) |
Postal code | 8960 |
Area code(s) | (+45) 8 |
Drastrup is a village on the peninsula of Jutland, with a population of 28 (2010). [1] It is a part of Randers Municipality in the Central Denmark Region. The village is gradually becoming enveloped by the growth of Assentoft. [2]
Jutland, also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula, is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany. The names are derived from the Jutes and the Cimbri, respectively.
Randers Municipality is a municipality in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 748.21 km², and has a population of 96,559. Its mayor as of 1 January 2014 is Claus Omann Jensen, a member of Venstre. The main town and the site of its municipal council is the city of Randers.
Central Denmark Region, or more directly translated as Central Jutland Region and sometimes simply Mid Jutland, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish Municipal Reform. The reform abolished the traditional counties (amter) and replaced them with five new administrative regions. At the same time, smaller municipalities were merged into larger units, cutting the total number of municipalities from 271 to 98. Central Denmark Region comprises 19 municipalities.
In the present Drastrup remains have been found of a round barrow from antiquity. [3]
A round barrow is a type of tumulus and is one of the most common types of archaeological monuments. Although concentrated in Europe, they are found in many parts of the world, probably because of their simple construction and universal purpose.
Ancient history as a term refers to the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as the post-classical history. The phrase may be used either to refer to the period of time or the academic discipline.
In medieval place names the last particle -trup means ”secondary settlement”. [4] Drastrup is known from September 16, 1465, [5] when its peasants were tenant farmers of Essenbæk Abbey. [6]
Essenbæk Abbey was a Benedictine monastery located in Essenbæk Parish eight kilometers east of Randers and 1.7 kilometer north of Assentoft.
After the Reformation, the king confiscated Essenbæk Abbey and its estate in 1540, [7] and when Drastrup was acquired on August 22, 1661, from the king by Hans Friis, there were six farms in the village. [8] Its location on moraine hills shows that agriculture was prioritized there, but cattle were probably kept on the meadows below the village. [2]
The Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein was the transition from Catholicism to Lutheranism in the realms ruled by the Danish-based House of Oldenburg in the first half of the sixteenth century. After the break-up of the Kalmar Union in 1521/1523, these realms included the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway and the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, whereby Denmark also extended over today's Gotland and Øsel in Estonia.
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth, through geomorphological processes. Moraines are formed from debris previously carried along by a glacier and normally consisting of somewhat rounded particles ranging in size from large boulders to minute glacial flour. Lateral moraines are formed at the side of the ice flow and terminal moraines at the foot, marking the maximum advance of the glacier. Other types of moraine include ground moraines, till-covered areas with irregular topography, and medial moraines which are formed where two glaciers meet.
A meadow is a open habitat, or field, vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants. They attract a multitude of wildlife and support flora and fauna that could not thrive in other conditions. They provide areas for courtship displays, nesting, food gathering, pollinating insects, and sometimes sheltering, if the vegetation is high enough, making them ecologically important. There are multiple types of meadows, such as agricultural, transitional, and perpetual, each important to the ecosystem. Meadows may be naturally occurring or artificially created from cleared shrub or woodland.
On March 18, 1695, Hans Friis gave [9] Essenbæk Home Farm (Essenbæk Ladegård), including adjoining estates, to his nephew Christian Friis, [10] who on February 15, 1726, incorporated them into the entailed estate of Tustrup. [11] On October 30, 1782, the king gave permission for the sale of the estate, and Essenbæk Home Farm was sold at auction at Tustrup on December 18, 1783, to Christian Kallager; the deed was signed on June 11, 1785. [12]
However, as early as June 10, [13] 1787, he sold it to Peter Severin Fønss and Johan Frederik Carøe. [14] In that year there were in Drastrup six farms, a smallholding and two houses, [15] in which resided 87 people. [16] Before the end of the following year the village was sold to the tenant farmers there, [17] who subdivided it among themselves. [18]
A smallholding is a small farm. In developing countries, smallholdings are usually farms supporting a single family with a mixture of cash crops and subsistence farming. As a country becomes more affluent, smallholdings may not be self-sufficient but are valued primarily for the rural lifestyle that they provide for the owners, who often do not earn their livelihood from the farm. There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farms in the world, supporting almost 2 billion people. Today some companies try to include smallholdings into their value chain, providing seed, feed or fertilizer to improve production. Some say that this model shows benefits for both parties.
A newly built school was opened in Drastrup March 1, 1859, [20] and Drastrup Co-operative Society (Drastrup Brugsforening) was established in 1900. [21]
In the village the Virring-Essenbæk Municipality and the Årslev-Hørning Municipality opened September 1, 1959, the Sønderhald hundred Central School (Sønderhald herreds Forbundsskole), [22] also called the Sønderhald School (Sønderhaldskolen), [23] and February 1, 1960, the previous school there was closed as such. [22] Drastrup Co-operative Society was abolished in 1965, [24] but in 1968 a sports ground and a clubhouse were constructed at the Sønderhald School. [23]
From February 28, 1973, [25] the Sønderhald Municipality decided to expand the residential area of Assentoft East (Assentoft Øst) with inter alia parts of Drastrup, including the Sønderhald School, [25] so that the village is becoming surrounded by Assentoft. [26] However, the village environment, with several farm structures, is relatively well-preserved.
The landscape in and around Drastrup is relatively flat, with few hills. [27]
Ole Christensen Rømer was a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
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Johan Thomas Lundbye was a promising young Danish painter and graphic artist, known for his animal and landscape paintings. He was artistically inspired by Niels Laurits Høyen's call to develop a Danish nationalistic art by exploring as motif the characteristic landscapes, the historical buildings and monuments, and the simple, rural people of Denmark. He became one of his generation’s national romantic painters, along with P. C. Skovgaard and Lorenz Frølich, to regularly depict the landscape of Zealand.
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Assentoft is a town on the peninsula of Jutland, with a population of 3,427 (2016). The town is eight kilometers east of Randers, and is a part of Randers Municipality in the Central Denmark Region.
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Anders Petersen was a Danish school teacher and author of a range of historical, genealogical and statistical books.
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