The Danish Lake District Ecomuseum

The interdisciplinary histories

An ecomuseum explains the interdisciplinary histories about the relationship between nature and culture and how it has developed the landscape into what we live in today. Landmarks in the landscape are precisely what they are in the broadest sense of the word. They may be a biotope, a cultural trace, a building, particular domestic animals, a special town house and much more.

The inauguration of the information board in Siim Mose (marsh), Ry

The interdisciplinary histories in the Lake District of Central Jutland are about:

• The creation of the landscape during and after the Glacial period (the formation of the landscape and the importance of the water-level)

• Habitats for flora and fauna

• Early settlements by lakes and rivers ( the Danish Palaeolithic age 7,400-4,200 B.C.) - Theme "The Gudenå Culture".

• The foundation of hamlets and villages (the Viking Age 740-1050 A.D.) Theme "The Crown and war"

• Fishery in the fresh water - from fishing to supplement the housekeeping and professional fishing on to sports fishing.

• Overland travel - Theme "Roads and their different usages" (the importance throughout the Ages)

• Fords and bridges - Theme "waterways and their strategic importance".

• The use of woodlands.

• Monastic life - Theme "Monastic orders and the monasteries in the Lake District of Central Jutland.

• Skanderborg Fief

• Skanderborg Cavalry District 1590-1760

• Early industrialization 1845-1930

• Water as a power-source - Theme " Watermills".

• Market towns, provincial railway towns and villages.

New histories will be told as time goes by.

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