An Outline for Life
We humans have grand ideas and make elaborate plans. It’s in our nature. But do things always go according to plan when those ideas are put into action? Or are we destined to live by the cynicism embraced by the military: Plans only hold until the first encounter with reality?
That’s the theme we’ll explore on this tour. Come join us!
The tour, An Outline for the Vikings, takes you past a demonstration of power on a grand scale.
Monuments of gigantic proportions
The monument took tens of thousands of man-hours to build but was only in use for a few years. Harald also built the Ravning Bridge, which was the longest bridge in Northern Europe at the time, and constructed ring forts spread across the country.
An Outline for the Vikings
An Outline for the Landscape
The tour, An Outline for a Landscape, takes you back to 1864, when Denmark lost the wealthy duchies of Schleswig and Holstein to the Germans. The country’s area shrank dramatically, and the population was halved.
Large portions of the best agricultural land were lost. The defeat called for self-reflection and a new national consciousness. The motto ‘What is lost outwardly must be won inwardly’ resonated.
This brought the vast uncultivated areas of Jutland into focus, and the cultivation of the heath truly began in earnest.
On the tour, An Outline for the Herrnhuters, you can explore the planned city of Christiansfeld. It is one of Denmark’s first cities that is the result of actual urban planning.
The Moravian Church’s city plan was created with clarity and rigor. Today, Christiansfeld is designated as a World Heritage Site. The project was initially a success, but the economic and social boost dwindled when Denmark had to cede Schleswig.
An Outline for the Herrnhuters
An Outline for the Fortress
On the tour, An Outline for the Fortress, you can walk through the historic fortress town of Fredericia.
Like Christiansfeld, Fredericia was built on a barren field—a desolate place where no city should be constructed. However, the area made good military sense.
After Jutland had been occupied, plundered, and burned during the periods from 1626-29 and again in 1643-45, it became clear that Jutland needed a defense, including a strong fortress.
Meet a braggart from the Viking Age who changed European history, encounter some cheerful Christians from Germany who brought World Heritage to Denmark, a handful of generals who outwitted the Schleswig-Holstein-Prussian army in 1849, and finally, the planned landscape that has ended up eradicating animals and plants that don’t conform to rulers and land yield requirements.
Join the tour: The Planned Life and hear about how plans became reality.
