Temaet for i år er Resilience som teamet har valgt, og jeg har valgt undertemaet Blomster, træer og forfædre, så lad os se, hvad der falder mig ind til det tema.
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Every day at noon (except Sundays) a new A-Z post goes live - or no post today.
The theme for this year is Resilience as given by the team, with my subtitle Flowers, Trees and Ancestors.
S ~ Svinø
Oles søn Rasmus giftede sig som jeg skrev i går med Enken Dorthes yngste datter, Maren Kirstine, kaldet Kirstine.
De blev boende på Svinø hele deres liv. Da de blev gift, var Svinø en halvø, forbundet med fastlandet ved en vej, der gik gennem de lavtliggende områder nord for Svinø Nor. Vejene var ikke lige pålidelige, oversvømmede om foråret og ofte længere. Der havde været forskellige tiltag i længere tid, men de havde ikke rigtig gort den store forskel.
Det var to handlekraftige og energiske unge mennesker, der her havde fundet hinanden. De giftede sig i november 1896, da Rasmus var 24 og Kirstine 20 år. Og ud over at de fik 9 børn, blev Rasmus så træt af altid at skulle have varer med for byens koner, når han leverede varer til Køng eller andre steder inde på fastlandet, at han åbnede en blandet landhandel i sit hus på Dybsøvej. Denne landhandel gik så godt at han opgav smedeerhvervet og blev en temmeligt velhavende købmand i stedet for.
Kort efter brylluppet gik han og andre af Svinøs bønder og håndværkere sammen om at gøre halvøen ordentligt landfast. De anlagde grøfter, byggede diger og flyttede jord i tonsvis. Der blev også organiseret tre pumpelaug til erstatning for de utallige små pumpestationer, der havde været på hele øen. Det var godt for trafikken til og fra Svinø og for landmlndene der nu fik mere land at opdyrke. Men set i miljø-bagklogskabens klare lys, burde man nok have udlagt Svinø Nor til fredet fuglepark i stedet og bare bygget en ordentlig vej gennem de lavtliggende områder.
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Ole's son Rasmus married, as I wrote yesterday, the widow Dorthe's youngest daughter, Maren Kirstine, called Kirstine.They lived and died on Svinø, but when they were married, Svinø was still mostly an usland, connected to the mainland by a road through the marshy, often flooded low-lying areas north of Svinø Nor. The road was unreliable, flooded in spring and often longer. Different initiatives had been undertaken, but without much success.
It was two energetic and enterprising young people who had found one another at Svinø. They married in November 1896, when Rasmus was 24 and Kirstine 20. In addition to having 9 children, Rasmus became so tired of always having to bring goods for the town's wives when he delivered goods to Køng or other places on the mainland that he opened a grocery in his house on Dybsøvej. This general store did so well that he gave up the blacksmith's trade and became a successfull and quite well off grocer instead.
During the last years of the 18 century, he and other farmers and craftsmen from Svinø joined forces to make the peninsula reliably connected to the mainland. They dug ditches, made dykes and organised the inhabitants in three groups each responsible for the maintenance of a big pump dtraining the marches.
This sure was good for the traffic to and from Svinø and for the residents of the island, but in the clear light of environmental hindsight, Svinø Nor should probably have been made into a protected bird habitate instead with a solid road throught the marches. But arable land was prized bach then.
S ~ Svinø
Samtidig havde Kirstine og mange af øens øvrige koner fået nok af at det efter søndagens gudstjenester i Køng var svært at få mændene med hjem fra krobesøg på Køng kro, der gerne trak ud i det uendelige. Svinø havde brug for en kirke.
Ganske hurtigt fik de gæve kvinder samlet en anseelig sum penge og allerede i år 1900 blev kirken indviet. Svinøs kvinder blev godt hjulpet på vej af pastor Jacob Holdt, der også gerne ville have en rigtig kirke at holde gudstjeneste i, i stedet for at være henvist til at bruge skolestuen på Svinø.
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At the same time, Kirstine and with her many of the island's other wives were quite fed up with waiting for their husbads after the Sunday services in Køng. The menfolk usually continued to the local inn, and it was difficult to get the men to come home from these visits which tended to drag on indefinitely.Svinø needed a churc of its own.
Quite quickly, the plucky women had raised a considerable sum of money and the church was completed very fast and consecrated in 1900. They had a staunch supporter in Pastor Jacob Holdt, who also wanted a real church to hold services in, instead of making do with the schoolhouse in Svinø.
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| Svinø kirke. Foto Lene M. Thomsen |
Kirstine må have været svært tilfreds med at det var hendes søn, Ole, der var det første barn der blev døbt i den nye kirke.
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Kirstine must have been immensely pleased that her son Ole, born 1900, was the first child to be baptized in the new church. 
Born on 13 September 1900 - In Svinø V. Kjøng Parish, Hammer Shire - Name: Ole Hansen - Parents: Blacksmith Rasmus Hansen and wife Maren Kirstine Andersen 24 years of Kjøng - Baotized: On the 4th of November 1900 by Parish priest Holdt in the church on Svinø (Godparents)
Vi skal da også have et foto af parret. ~ S ~ And a photo of the couple.
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| Kirstine Andersen Herlufmagle 1876 - 1948 Svinø |
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| Rasmus Hansen 1872-1954 Svinø |
S ~ Svinø
Hjemme"forbedret" kort over Svinø som forsøger at vise Svinø før den blev gjort ordentligt landfast. De blålige skraveringer er moser og søer. Lilla kors er kirken og flaget er efter bedste overbevisning placeret i købmandsgården på Dybsøvejen
jeg undskylder for mine elendige comuter-tegne-evner.
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Map "improved" by me, sorry for my lousy computer-drawing skills. The areas marked with blue slashes are the swampy, marshy parts before the dykes were build. The purple cross marks the church and the purple flag hopefully where Rasmus and Kristine lived in the Grocer shop at Dybsøvejen.
Hindsight always give us perfect vision. Arable land is still prized in many areas.
SvarSletWhat an industrious couple they were.
Now, in Denmark, we're turning back many of thoise changes. Letting brooks run free, stopping pumps to once again make swamps and marches. Too many species have died or are endangered. We still need industrious couples!
SletThat is a beautiful church! and the photos are priceless - love B/W photos. Visiting from the A-Z and much enjoyed reading, thank you. All the best for the rest of the challenge.
SvarSletThank you. It has been a fun time travel.
SletKirstine and Rasmus have nice faces and they both look ike the sort who would "get things done!" instead of whining about the difficulties.
SvarSletThey sure do; and that's what they did. No nonsense types, as were their children.
SletIt's amazing how much people can accomplish when they set their minds to it, both the turning marsh into arable land and the building of a church.
SvarSletThe time aroud the turn of the century was an energetic time. If you ever read "The Little House"-books you see the same traits, and the same energy; the dates are almost the same. Laura was born only 5 years before Rasmus.
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