Denne cache - Simmel bæk:
I 1954 gik der ild i motorvogn på vej fra Troldhede til Kolding. Falck fra Grindsted kom hurtigt til stedet, men havde ikke vand nok til slukningen. DSB rangertraktoren fra Grindsted blev tilkaldt og fik motorvognen trukket hen til Simmel Bæk, så der var vand nok til slukningen. Men motorvognen var allerede så beskadiget, at den senere blev udrangeret.
Oplev sporene af Natur- og kulturperler i Billund Kommune – ”Mod Nord”
Oplev den spændende unikke natur, de kulturelle – og historiske steder, til fods, på cykel eller i bil.
Et besøg på/i Danmarks næststørste hedeslette (Grindsted sletten). Hedesletten har spor fra istiden, de tidligere hedestrækninger/områder, samt spor fra Grindsted som jernbane knudepunkt.
Den ændring, som landskabet fik ved hedeopdyrkning, skabte grobund for er frodigt landbrug, med mange plovfuger, læhegn, engvanding og agermarker med gode afgrøder. Dette skabte muligheder for bl.a. andelsmejerier, brugsforeninger, fabrikker m.m. i slutningen af 1800- tallet.
I 1914 kom den første jernbane til Grindsted. Grindsted blev et knudepunkt midt i den jyske hede. Dette betød en stor udvikling for hele egnen. Grindsted blev en stationsby med Danmarks 3. største banegård.
Banerne transporterede gods og personer (bl.a. skolebørn). Godstransporten var mergel, gødning, tørv, brunkul, tømmer, korn, kartofler, levende dyr, landbrugsmaskiner, mejeri- og slagteriprodukter, medicin, benzin, olie, kolonialvarer, post m.m.
Oplevelsesturene er tilrettelagt på eller tæt på jernbanestrækningerne, der er i Billund Kommune med seværdigheder i de enkelte bysamfund: Billund, Eg, Filskov, Grindsted, Hejnsvig, Krogager-Stenderup, Sønder Omme og Vorbasse
English:
The bridge over Simmel bæk (bæk = a brook)
In 1954 there was a fire on one of the trainwagons on its way from Troldhede to Kolding. The fire department in Grindsted was quickly at the rescue, but did not have enough water to extinguish the fire. A larger shunter-tractor was sent for and it pushed the burning wagon to the brook, where there was water to extinguish the fire. Sadly though, the wagon was too damaged to be used again.
Experience the history of special places of cultural interest in Billund. “Going North”
Experience the second greatest moor-area in Denmark – the Moorplaines of Grindsted – which has remains from the ice-age, from earlier moor-areas and from a time, when Grindsted was a railway-centre.
The landscape changed dramatically, when the moors were cultivated, and changed into farmland. This again brought dairies, consumer cooperatives, factories, etc. to the area towards the end of the 1800s.
In 1914 the first railway was built to Grindsted and Grindsted became a traffic center on the Moors of Jutland with the 3rd largest railway station in Denmark. This gave a great growth to the area and increase of the population.
The railway transported goods and people (f.ex. school children). The goods were marl, fertilizer, peat, brown coal, timber, grain, potatoes, livestock, farming equipment, dairy and butchery products, medicine, fuel, groceries, mail and likewise.
Today there is no longer any railway traffic, but the remains can still be found and you can experience the area along these paths.