Lille Heddinge Rytterskole

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Lille Heddinge Rytterskole is a former rytterskole ("cavalry school") now operated as a school museum in Lille Heddinge, Stevns Municipality, Denmark. It is considered the best preserved of all the surviving schools of its kind and was listed in 1918.

A rytterskole was a type of school erected in Denmark in the years 1721–1727 for the education of common children. The schools were located in 12 cavalry districts established in 1715–1718, during the Great Nordic War, to reform and improve the cavalry in Denmark, from which the schools got their name. They were not military schools, as the name might suggest, but rather a predecessor to the Danish public schools founded in 1814.

Stevns Municipality Municipality in Region Zealand, Denmark

Stevns is a municipality in Region Sjælland on the southeast coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 250 square kilometres (97 sq mi), and has a population of 22,782. The municipality covers most of Stevns Peninsula.

Denmark constitutional monarchy in Europe

Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and the southernmost of the Scandinavian nations. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.

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Lille Heddinge Rytterskole

The cavalry schools were built at the initiative of Frederick IV. A total of 240 schools were built between 1722 and 1727 in the 12 new "cavalry districts" (rytterdistrikter). The purpose was to strengthen the Danish cavalry. The school at Lille Heddinge was built in 1722. [1]

Frederick IV of Denmark King of Denmark and Norway

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Bishop Nicolai Edinger Balle (1744–1816) visited the school in 1786 and again in 1791 and on 23 July 1894.

It was decommissioned after a new school was built at Skørpingevej in 1892. [2] The building was later used as a community centre, a storage building and a private residence. It was restored by Stevns Municipality from 1973 to 1976 and subsequently operated as a school museum by Østsjællands Museer.

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References

  1. ↑ "Kongen bragte skolen til folket". 13 August 2017 (in Danish).
  2. ↑ Heddinge "Rytterskolerne i Tryggevælde Rytterdistrikt" Check |url= value (help). thorshoj.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 13 August 2017.

Coordinates: 55°16′25″N12°23′22″E / 55.2735°N 12.3894°E / 55.2735; 12.3894

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