Funen
Funen ( Fyn Danish [ fy ː ʔn ] ) is an island in the Region Syddanmark in Denmark. With 2985 km ² Funen to Zealand and Vendsyssel -Thy is the fourth largest island in Denmark (including Greenland).
Geography
Funen is located between the Little and Great Belt. It is centrally located in Denmark and in addition Zealand with 456 128 inhabitants (1 January 2013) one of the centers of economic, traffic engineering and cultural terms.
North of Fyn are the islands Æbelø, Endelave and Samsø. To the east lies the small island Romsø, in the south in addition to many smaller islands, the larger islands Ærø, Taasinge and Langeland. To the southwest lies the island Helnæs, in the west Bågø and Fænø.
Largest city on Fyn is Odense ( Denmark's third largest city ), the former headquarters of the dissolved Funen Office. The Odense Fjord covers an area of approximately 63 km ². The highest mountain on the island is the Frøbjerg Bavnehøj with a height of 131 meters.
Traffic
The island is connected by an elaborate bridge tunnel construction ( Storebæltsbroen ) with Zealand and by bridges to Jutland and Langeland. From Nyborg goes out of traffic (cars and trains) on the 6.6 kilometer-long West Bridge to island Sprogø. From there, trains reach the place Halskov Korsør on Zealand by a 7.7 km long, twin-tube tunnel. Cars driving ahead of the 6.8 km-long East Bridge, which spans 65 meters at its apex on the shipping route through the Great Belt. With a span of 1,624 m, it is the longest suspension bridge in Europe. The oldest suspension bridge in Denmark, Ny Little Belt, connects Funen Jutland to Middelfart with. Langeland is accessible via bridges over the islands Taasinge and SiO.
Fyn is also accessible by ferry from Alsen and has ferry services to the small southern islands such as Ærø and Lyø.
The Odense located in the northern part of the island airport is currently used only for charter flights (as of October 2013).
Population
The largest city on Funen Odense with 170 327 inhabitants in the city center. Other important places are Svendborg ( 26783 ), Nyborg ( 16454 ), Middelfart ( 14755 ), Faaborg ( 7249 ) and Assen ( 6017 ).
Climate
History
The oldest document that refers to residents of the island is dated 1085 AD to the year. Until 1300 AD, only about 1 /10 of the then-existing settlements in surviving documents, are detectable. Until the 15th century were then detained nine of 10 villages in the written sources. It was not until the 16th century every village and manor was held in books.
The colonization of Funen can essentially be divided into three zones:
The oldest settlements were due to the rich fishing grounds of the Baltic Sea near the coast. From 1000 to 1300 AD, the number of villages doubled on Funen. However, due to the vulnerability of the coast ( by the Slavs ), many of them moved back to the safer inland, where they founded new settlements - especially in the forest areas of the island. In the southeast, but also other coastal villages were established, secured by fasteners. These include Nyborg with Magelund or Lykkesholm, Svendborg and Faaborg with Ørkild. Between 1300 and 1450 AD, there was a stagnation or to leave the island and only later was a new settlement wave near the coast, which removed by the barely 2 km from the southern forest belt was favored. Especially fishing settlements were formed also on the small islands and headlands.
Fyn formed until 1970 never an administrative unit. In 1500 was one half of the nearly 7,000 goods on the island of the aristocracy, a quarter of the church, and the remaining quarter of the Danish crown. As had been the later King Christian VIII in 1816 knocked off the Norwegian throne, sat his cousin King Frederik VI. him as governor of a Fyn, but this was more of an honorary title as an administrative function. Was Funen divided into numerous Lehnsdistrikte since the Middle Ages, it was only in the 20th century from the offices of Odense and Svendborg. 1970 these were merged to Funen. Coat of arms of the island are three hops leaves. 2007, however, went on Funen in Region Syddanmark.
Etymology
In Old Icelandic texts, the island was called Fjon. Adam of Bremen called it in 1075 AD Fune. 1231 AD, it was Fyun, Latin it was called Fionia and Feonia and the Low German they called Vüne. When Hans Christian Andersen was asked what Fyn - how it writes today in Denmark - meaning he replied in poetic license: " fin". This simply means in German: fine. In addition to this etymology is another. After that, there should have been a king Fin ( Finn ), who is said to have his country well defended.
Kirke St Knud in Odense
Korshavn with the island in the background Mejlø