Mørdrup

Last updated April 26, 2019

Mørdrup is a former village and current neighbourhood in the Espergærde district of southern Helsingør, Denmark. Mørdrup has a halt on the Little North railway between Hillerød and Helsingør by way of Fredensborg.

Espergærde is a town situated in North Zealand near Øresund in Denmark and is statistically considered part of the larger urban area Espergærde-Snekkersten-Elsinore, some 5 to 8 km south of the centre of Elsinore and in reality separated from the urban area of Elsinore-Snekkersten by a 100 m wide unbuilt area, Egebæksvang forest and area under natural protection around Flynderupgård. The urban area of Espergærde also covers the two former villages Tibberup and Mørdrup and part of the former fishing village of Skotterup, with 11.524 inhabitants (2008). Espergærde is well limited to the north by Egebæksvang forest and Flynderupgård, to the west by Rolighedsmoserne and Helsingørmotorvejen, to the south by Krogerup mansion fields and Babyloneskoven. Espergærde is part of Region Hovedstaden.

Helsingør, classically known in English as Elsinore, is a city in eastern Denmark.

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.

History

Mørdrup is first mentioned in 1466 as Myrdrup and in 1497 as Myrthorp. The name means the "place by a bog established by people from another village". In 1631, the village consisted of nine farms and four houses without land. Its land was divided into three sections: Bybjerg Vang, Mellemvang and Strandvang. The nine farms were Ærtebjerggaard, Bybjerggaard, Højagergaard (later Søbækgaard), Kjærsgaard, Toftegaard, Rolighed, Grødemosegaard and Lerbjerggaard. The village later grew with four smallholdings as well as new houses. In 1791, Rolighed, Grødemosegaard and Lerbjerggaard moved out of the village and closer to their fields. Busserupgaard, and Søbæk Mølle (Søbækhuset) became part of Mørdrup's owners' guild in the 1800s.

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.

The village was originally crown land and, unlike many other villages, has never belonged to Esrom Abbey. From 1672, it belonged to Krogerup Manor at Humlebæk. The new royal road ran between Helsingør and Hørsholm and Hillerød from the beginning of the 18th century. Krogerup Manor ran a school in the village from 1751. It was from 1794 based in the property Godthaab at Hovvej.

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All the farms became owned by the farmers in about 1805. The new Copenhagen-Helsingør Railway passed through Mørdrup from its opening in 1964 but the halt in Mørdrup was not established until 1934.^[1]

Mørdrup had a windmill located on the eastern outskirts of the village. A smaller windmill, Bybjerg Windmill, stood next to Bybjerggaard.^[2] Several cooperative initiatives were taken in the late 18th and early 20th century. A community centre (forsamlingshus) opened in 1893 and a cooperative waterworks in 1929. A private school, Mørdrup Friskole, was also established. Mørdrup was also affected by the rapid growth of neighboring Espergærde.

Today

Remains of the original village can still be seen around the old village pond.

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References

↑ "Da Mørdrup og Tibberups bønder slap for hoveriet" (in Danish). tikobkommune.dk. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
↑ "Vindmøllerne I Mørdrup" (in Danish). tikobkommune.dk. Retrieved 21 September 2016.

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[1] "Da Mørdrup og Tibberups bønder slap for hoveriet" (in Danish). tikobkommune.dk. Retrieved 21 September 2016.

[2] "Vindmøllerne I Mørdrup" (in Danish). tikobkommune.dk. Retrieved 21 September 2016.