Fur (island)
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Fur ( historical: Fuur ) is a 22.29 -square-kilometer island with 826 inhabitants ( 1 January 2013) in the Limfjord in northern Jutland (Denmark). From the mainland (East Salling ) can be reached Fur in three minutes with a ferry across the 400 m wide Fursund. For forms its own parish church Fur Sogn, which originally belonged to Harde Harre Herred in Viborg Amt ). From 1970 it belonged to Sundsøre municipality in the former Viborg Amt and since the municipal reform of 1 January 2007 it belongs to Skive municipality in Region Midtjylland. Fur belongs to the Association of Danish small islands.
For today is a typical holiday home island and is home to over 1,000 summer guests. Otherwise, there is agriculture with black sandy fields, mussel fishery and Molerindustrie. Moler is a clay-like, very light mineral in refractory of industrial furnaces has meaning, among other things.
In the south Fur is flat and rises gently to the north to the cliffs. There you'll see the planted only less than a hundred years trees on the preferred wind direction. Previously here dominated the heath.
The island is under geological aspects of great interest. In the constructed predominantly from Moler cliffs to the north of the island almost the entire layer sequence of the Moler with its numerous ash layers (Fur- formation from the Lower Eocene ) is open. This reference is also the type locality of Eocene sea turtle Tasbacka danica ( Karl & Madsen 2012). In Moler, which also occurs in other places in Limfjordgebiet, spectacular fossil finds have been made in part, some of which fur- Museum ( Nederby ) are exhibited. A curiosity is to be found in the section of the cliff, which is called Stolleklint. The name derives from the fact that at the beginning of the 19th century has been suggested that dark ash layers in Moler were made of carbonaceous sand. Hoping to be able to extract coal was allowed to drive by Swedish prisoners of war a 50-meter- deep tunnel in the rock and at the end of this tunnel as a deep shaft. Only much later, in 1900, succeeded Belgian geologists to elucidate the actual composition of the group consisting of quartz sand and volcanic ash dust dark ash layers. The tunnel has collapsed, his entrance in the cliff, however, is still to be seen.
Also worth seeing is the section is approximately in the middle of the north coast between Stolleklint and Østklint where the so-called 'Rødsten ( Rotstein ) occurs. It involves meltwater sand and gravel, which is cemented by iron compounds derived from pyrite, which was washed out of the Moler. These iron compounds give the 'Rødsten its striking red color. The apse and part of the nave of the Fur Church in Nederby are built of red stone.
The highest point of the island is now the Lille Jenshøj with 76 m after the originally highest Bette Jenses Hyw was demolished in 1962.
The island has some rocky beaches, but you can swim in the fjord.
On Fur are the tiny places Stenøre, Nederby, Madsbad, Hvirp and Debel. Many farmers live on ethnic courtyards.
The Stendalhøje ( 5) and the Smediehøje (4) grave mound on the island.