'The Butterfly' er en geoart på 60 mystery-caches udlagt i Ålbæk Klitplantage.
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'The Butterfly' is a geoart consisting of 60 mystery-caches placed in Ålbæk Klitplantage.
You can read more about the series here.
TINGSTENEN
Dansk
I den nordligste del af Ålbæk Klitplantage står "Tingstenen". Følg den røde vandrerute, så finder du den. Stenen markerer det sted man mener var "Tingsted for Gaardbo Birk". Et Tingsted var datidens svar på en retssal og et Birk var en retskreds under herredstinget, - et selvstændigt retsområde tildelt af kongen. Birkeretten havde til formål at afgøre lokale stridigheder og lovovertrædelser.
Jørgen Wendelboe Larsen, ejer af godset Gaardbogaard, rejste mindestenen i 1891. På baggrund af gamle kort var det muligt at udpege området hvor tingsted og tilhørende galgebakke havde været. Der findes også gamle retsprotokoller, hvori man bl.a kan læse, at den sidste dom, før tinget blev nedlagt, var over en ung kvinde. Hun blev dømt for barnemord.
Det siges om Gaardbo Birk, at det var det ringeste birk i Nordjylland. Birkefogeden, der fungerede som dommer, var en fisker, der hverken kunne læse eller skrive!
I 1797 blev birket nedlagt og retshandlinger overført til Horns Herredsting.
På mindestenen er øverst indhugget: 1546 - 1797 (perioden hvor Gaardbo Birk officielt var tingsted) og på stenens sokkel står: GAARDBO BIRKS TINGBAKKE. Hvis du besøger stenen, vil du måske undre dig over at inskriptionerne står på "bagsiden". Men husk, at da stenen blev opsat, var der ikke noget som hed Ålbæk Klitplantage. Arbejdet med anlæggelsen af plantagen startede faktisk samme år, men indtil da havde der kun været hede og klitter øst for Tingstedet, og den nærmeste vej var den, der hedder Hvidemosevej i dag.
English
If you follow the red hiking trail in the northernmost part of Ålbæk Klitplantage (dune plantation) you will find “Tingstenen” a stone monument that is believed to mark the "Tingsted for Gaardbo Birk". A “Tingsted/Thingstead” was a meeting place where the local elders would gather to resolve disputes and offenses in their judicial community – the so-called “Birk”. Each community had their own independent “Ting” (parliament).
Jørgen Wendelboe Larsen, owner of the estate Gaardbogaard, erected the stone in 1891. Based on old maps, it was possible to identify where the “Tingsted” and associated gallows had been. Old legal protocols show that the last verdict made under the “Ting” was against a young woman, who was convicted of murdering a child.
Gaarbo Birk is said to have been the poorest in northern Jutland. Its bailiff was a fisherman, who could neither read nor write! Gaarbo Birk was abolished in 1797 and legal proceedings were henceforth handled by the legal district of Horn.
The top of “Tingstenen” reads: 1546 - 1797 (the period when Gaardbo Birk was officially a thingstead) and the stone socket reads: GAARDBO BIRKS TINGBAKKE. If you visit the stone, you may wonder why the inscriptions are on the back side of the stone. But when the stone was erected, there was no plantation. The plantation was in fact started in 1891, the year the stone was erected. Before that, there was only moor and dunes and the nearest road was the one we call Hvidemosevej today.
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