Brandsø
| Brandsø | ||
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| Waters | Baltic Sea | |
| Archipelago | Little Belt | |
| Geographical location | 55 ° 21 '30 " N , 9 ° 42' 30" E | |
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| surface | 2.039 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
Brandsø is a Danish island in the Little Belt , the strait between Jutland and the island of Fyn ( German Fyn ), approximately between Middelfart and the island Årø located. The island is 203.9 hectares and belongs to the parish community ( Danish : Sogn ) Bågø Sogn , which belonged to Harde Båg Herred in Odense Amt until 1970 , then to Assens Municipality in Fyns Amt , which became part of the municipal reform on January 1, 2007 has merged into the "new" Assens municipality in the Syddanmark region.
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While more than 50 people lived on the island in the 1920s, it has been uninhabited since the late 1960s,
The island played a role in the Danish-Swedish War from 1657 to 1658; the Second Northern War. In 1974 Brandsø was discussed as a possible location for a nuclear power plant.
There are two dolmens on the island, of which the Runddysse was immortalized in a famous painting by Dankvart Dreyer (1816–1852). The Langdysse Svenskehøj is a few hundred meters to the east.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Danmarks Statistics : Statistisk Aarbog 1920 - Table 3: Arealets Fordeling paa de forskellige større og minre Landsdele including Folkemængde og Befolkningstæthed on February 1, 1916, footnote 9 (Danish / French; PDF; 1.1 MB)
- ^ Entry about Brandsø in "Den Store Danske". Retrieved September 15, 2009 .
- ↑ is the name commonly used in Denmark for dolmens that are located in a round hill. In contrast, Langdysser are those dolmens that lie in a rectangular or trapezoidal barn bed