Harboøre

	Harboøre
	Harboøre
	Harboøre
Basic data
State :	Denmark
Region :	Midtjylland
Municipality ; (since 2007) :	Lemvig
Coordinates :	56 ° 37 ′ N , 8 ° 11 ′ E Coordinates: 56 ° 37 ′ N , 8 ° 11 ′ E
Population : ; (2020)	1,443
Area :	508.17 km²
Population density :	3 inhabitants per km²
Postal code :	7673
	; Harboøre Kirke from 1910

Harboøre is a small town in the Danish municipality of Lemvig in the Midtjylland region . It is located on the North Sea coast below the Harboøre Tange headland and west of Nissum Bredning , part of the Limfjord . The place has 1443 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2020).

From 1970 to 2006, Harboøre and the neighboring town of Thyborøn formed the municipality of Thyborøn-Harboøre . Before that it was part of the smaller Harboøre-Engbjerg municipality .

Worth seeing

The neo-Romanesque village church was built in 1910 and forms the center of the municipality of Harboøre Sogn . The altar was acquired in 1605, the baptismal font is from the 13th century and the pulpit from the 17th century. On the south side of the Lilør-Sten stands in memory of twelve sea rescuers who were killed in a mission on January 25, 1897. Another memorial stone commemorates 25 German submariners who drowned off the coast on May 31, 1916.

The Harboøre bathing hotel was built in 1899 and gave the place a small share of the growing tourism business with bathers from all over the country.

To the west of the village is the Flyvholm Sea Rescue Station , now a museum. Between 1847 and 1968, the men rescued over 700 castaways from the North Sea. One of the exhibits is a rowing boat from 1922.

From 2011, the former fishing port of Haarum Havn on the Limfjord was restored, fishing shacks were built and boat anchorages were created.

history

The place name is first recorded in 1255 as Harthboøræ and is composed of Harbo (residents in Hard syssel ) and ør (gravel beach section).

Fishing has probably been carried out on the site since the 16th century. It was then that the first church was built. At the end of the 19th century, a Protestant revival took hold in the village. The so-called Harboøre awakening is one of the best-known currents of the Inner Mission in Denmark. In 1893, 26 fishermen from Harboøre remained at sea. Pastor Carl Julius Moe gave an accusatory eulogy at her funeral, which attributed the misfortune to the sinfulness of the congregation. It reached the capital, Copenhagen, where the newspaper Politiken stated: “That was not a funeral. That was an execution. "

In connection with the popular church Indre Mission , Moe and his followers quickly gained influence, they divided the congregation into "saints" (their followers) and "forever damned" (the secularly minded). They were dubbed "preachers of hell" by their opponents. Another accident in 1897 with twelve dead sea rescuers reinforced the position of the awakening movement. The father of the writer Hans Kirk came from a poor fishing family in Harboør. From here Kirk drew his suggestions for the successful novel Fiskerne (1928, German Die Fischer, 1969). The Inner Mission still counts the place as one of its strongholds today, but it is hardly as conservative as it was 100 years ago.

Cheminova

The Cheminova chemical plant is located at secondary route 181 . One of the biggest environmental scandals in Danish history is linked to the location. Since it settled in 1953, the company had dumped around 30 tonnes of mercury with government approval , and the soil was contaminated with toxic waste water and insecticide residues. In the 1960s there was extensive fish death from the plant protection product parathion . In the 1970s a massive bird death followed, sulphurous waste in the Nissum Bredning led to the death of the bottom of the water . In 1981, after an inventory, 5,600 tons of contaminated soil were exchanged and disposed of in a German salt mine. About 110 tons of contaminated soil near groyne 42 ( Høfde 42 ) were sealed. Removal of the landfill is being considered after leachate leaked in 2000 and contaminated a 13-kilometer stretch of coast. Cheminova with 850 jobs has been part of the US company FMC Corporation since 2014 .

In 2015, an initiative by the Aarhus University Research Fund to have the toxic waste removed with the financial contribution of the polluter failed .