The Salmon
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| The stone salmon at Karstoft Å (near Skjern Å river. |
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| The Salmon, head |
A huge stone sculpture of the Skjern Å-salmon was created at the spot close to Karstoft Å, Skarrildhus in West Jutland by the Aarhus-sculptor Jørn Rønnau.
Seven Danish artists will use nature in the future National Park Skjern Å as a gallery for six Land-Art Works.
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| Karstoft Å, Skarrildhus |
Land Art is the description of a direction of visual art which emerged in USA in the late 1960s based between sculpture and landscape architecture
Jørn Rønnau's giant 45 meter long stone salmon at Skarrildhus is not the only Land Art work in this neighbourhood, fx an area will be decorated with winding paths with small heart figures made of chausse stones and grass; a poem will be created about light and words; a poetic landscape with four small islands in a forgotten wetland - and much more.
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| fish bench, Skarrildhus |
The coming National Park Skjern Å has already manyfold initiatives created by local citizens, unions and traders, and there will be a cooperation between them and the Land Art artists.
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| information about the Skarrildhus-area, Naturplan.dk |
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| Skarrild church yard. |
The Church Yard
Information from link:
www.airmen.dk/p353.htm
"In connection with the RAF´s first bombing raid to Königsberg (here, now Kaliningrad) in East Prussia Lancaster ME650 crashed on 27 August 1944 at
Clasonsborg in the parish of Skarrild. All of the crew perished. The German Wehrmacht wanted to bury the deceased "on the spot", but local Danish citizens obtained
that they were interred on the churchyard. This was quite an achievement from the Danish side, as the Germans just from 27 August 1944 started obeying an order to
dig down allied airmen "on the spot". Residents of the parish were accused by the Germans of being pro-English, as they showed up to accompany the airmen to
their graves."
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| the Raven, Skarrildhus |
I always like to see the raven in the air and listen to its rough voice. A very clever bird.
Info from wikipedia:
The Raven
Some notable feats of evidence that the common raven is unusually intelligent. Over the centuries
it has been the subject of mythology, folklore, art, and literature. In many cultures, including the indigenous cultures of Scandinavia, ancient Ireland and Wales, Bhutan, the northwest coast of North America and Siberia and northeast Asia, the common raven has been revered as a spiritual figure or god.
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| Southern Hawker, Skarrildhus |
Southern Hawker /Aeschna cyanea.
It is one of the largest dragonflies in Denmark. 67-74 mm. Southern hawker is a great flier, it flies with a speed of 25-30 km hour, while it is catching insects in a fangkurv (trap) which it shapes with its legs. The prey is eaten in the air - you can hear the crunch!
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| Tar Oven, foto stig bachmann nielsen, naturplan.dk |
Tjæreovnene/ Tar Ovens
Near Skarrildhus are some interesting industrial buildings where two old tar ovens have been repaired and restored to remind about a trade which has died out long ago. The rebuild of the small industry was established in order to show the production of charcoal and wood tar and to communicate a piece of cultural history from the first half of the 1900s. The production functioned from 1910 until right after WWII.
photo Skarrildhus/Skarrild kirke: 2003/2015: grethe bachmann
photo: tar oven, stig bachmann nielsen, naturplan.dk
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