Anbefalet P-plads på koordinaterne N 56° 24.028 - E 009° 20.974
Ved krigen i 1864, mellem Preussen/Østrig og Danmark, mister Danmark Slesvig, Holsten og Lauenburg og dermed to femtedele af landets samlede størrelse. Indbyggertallet reduceres fra 2.6 mio til 1.6 mio.
Det er et hårdt slag for Danmark, og ønsket om at vinde det tabte tilbage var så stort, at det fik regeringen til i 1867 besluttede, at halvdelen af den danske hær (10.000 mand, dobbelt så mange som det daværende indbyggertal i Viborg) skulle indkaldes til øvelser i 45 dage hver sommer ved Hald.
I løbet af maj 1868 rejste den hvide by sig for første gang i det hedepræget område. Lejren havde et imponerende omfang. Fodfolket lå mellem Hald og Karupvejen. Artilleriet længere tilbage mod nord på en åben plads i Egeskoven, ca. ½ km syd for hvor Folkekurens Afdeling B ligger. Lejeren var en hel by af telte, næsten dobbelt så stor som Viborg med lejrgade, alarmpladser, torvepladser, magasiner og depoter, post- og telegrafstation, arrest og brand- og politivæsen.
Forsyningerne til de 10.000 mand, var enorme, og det skæppede godt i det lokale næringslivs kasse.
I perioden 1874 og 1877 var Kronprins Frederik ( senere Kong Frederik VIII ) chef for lejrdivisionen ved Hald, og senere er der rejst en minde sten i skoven ved Hald Ege.
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At the war i 1864 between Prussia/Austria and Denmark, Denmark lost Slesvig, Holstein and Lauenburg and by that 2/5 of the country total size. The population was reduced from 2.6 mill. to 1.6 mill.
It was a heavy loss for Denmark, and the wish to win it all back was so high, that it in 1867 the government decided, that the half of the Danish army (10.000 man, and the double of the population in Viborg at the time ) every summer should be called in for exercise at Hald. In the course of May 1868 a white town rises for the first time at the moor like area. The camp had a impressing size. The infantry was placed between Hald and the road to Karup (A12). The artillery longer back against North on a open place in The Oak forest, about ½ a kilometer south from where the unit B is placed. The camp was a whole city of tents, nearly the double in size of Viborg, with camp streets alarm places, depots, post and telegraph station, jail, police and fire station.
The supplies to the 10.000 man were enormously, and it was good to the local business.
In the period 1874 to 1877 the crown prince Frederik (later king Frederik VIII) was commanding officer for the camp at Hald, and later there have been placed a monument in the forest at Hald Ege.
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