Rye Mølle Sø
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| Rye Mølle Sø, view from road 445 over the dam | ||
| Geographical location | Skanderborg Municipality , Denmark | |
| Tributaries | Gudenå | |
| Drain | Gudenå | |
| Places on the shore | Ry | |
| Location close to the shore | Skanderborg | |
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| Coordinates | 56 ° 5 '5 " N , 9 ° 45' 33" E | |
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| length | 2 km | |
Rye Mølle Sø is a two-kilometer-long lake in Denmark, immediately west of the southern end of the town of Ry in Skanderborg Municipality . It was dammed by the Gudenå River .
At the Holmen peninsula at the entrance to the southern end of the lake, an important ford was in the Middle Ages for traffic from Aarhus to Gammel Rye , Øm Monastery and on to West Jutland (Danish: Vestjylland).
The western side of the lake is forested, while near the town, at the eastern latitude, a campsite has been set up on the Holmen peninsula. North of the Peninsula flows Vesso on the creek Skärså in the Rye Mølle Sø.
There is a sclerosis hospital near the lake , which used to be a tuberculosis hospital . Road 445 runs from Skanderborg to Rodelund , with a connection to both Silkeborg and Horsens, over the dam at Rye Mølle, where the water falls 1.5 meters deep and drives the water mill .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Skanderborgleksikon: Rye Mølle , Danish, accessed on July 1, 2016