ASKOV  MINNESOTA  USA

 

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ASKOV MINNESOTA

- with maps of state and city -
- a brief summery of DANISH SETTLEMENT IN MINNESOTA - in Danish -
- and obituary for basketball player Mikkelsen.

 

SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS:

MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY

- where you can read about -

DANISH SETTLEMENT IN MINNESOTA

- and other interesting accounts about the history of Minnesota -


 HISTORY OF ASKOV


- tells about -

- the City of Askov, Minnesota with a population of less than 400 -
- located in Pine County which is in East Central Minnesota.
Askov is located just 8 miles east of I-35 -
-
half way between Duluth and St. Paul -
- which makes for easy access to either city.
Askov is has a rich Danish history which is evident even today -
- with the Danish street names and many strong traditions.

 

SEE ALSO:

ASKOV FOLKHIGHSCHOOL


- with an external link to a website about -

- the Danish folk highchool -

 

Hundreds of Denmark / Herreder i Danmark

In the period preceding the Municipal Reform (Kommunalreformen) of 1970 -
- Denmark was divided into around 170 hundreds (Danish: herred, plural: herreder).
In the timeframe 1793 through 1970, each parish (sogn) -
- was functioning as a municipality (en kommune) -
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within their respective hundreds (herreder).
The hundreds
(herrederne) were in turn part of a county (amt).
This was changed in 1970, when the parishes (sognene) were merged -
-  into larger municipalities (kommuner) -
- sometimes crossing hundred borders (herredsgrænser)  -
- and the hundreds (herrederne) fell out of administrative use.
Today, hundreds (herreder) are used mostly for purposes of genealogy research.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Der er forskellige meninger om herredernes ælde og oprindelse.
Måske er deres oprindelse militær.
De findes i hvert fald fra middelalderen -
- og var da især retslige grundinddelinger af landet.
I hvert herred var der et herredsting.


Et herred bestod af flere sogne -
- og hvert sogn var som regel inddelt i et antal landsbyer.
Landsbyen var dyrkningsfællesskabet -
sognet det kirkelige fællesskab og herredet det retslige.