Bornholm Travel Holiday Info

Worth knowing over the island of Bornholm

Lage:
Bornholm is breadth 54° 59 min. north of min. 55° 18 and 14° 4 of min. 15° 10 min. eastern length. One finds a Granitsstein which precisely marks the blade point between 55° of northern breadth and 15° of eastern length with a cross a little to the east in front of the muzzle of the Øleflüsschens into the Baltic Sea - at the southern coast of Bornholm. It is for breadth north of 55° 55 x 111 km = 6105 km to the Äkvator and 35 x 111 km = 3885 km to the North Pole. One calculates the so-called Central European time of of 15° eastern length and is often called "Gudhjemzeit".

All places on 15° of eastern length have the sun exactly as the only authority in Denmark in the south point 12.00 clock, except for the summertime. Ertholmene are breadth min. north of 55° 19 and min. eastern of 15° 11 length.

Important dates

	Bornholm resulted for approx. 1700 m. v. Chr.
	the first people sat down approx. 10.000 v. Chr in Bornholm.
	Bornholm has his own king approx. 800.
	Bornholm became a part of the Danish kingdom approx. 1000.
	1149, 3 of the 4 districts gave Sven Grathe to the archbishop of Lund in Bornholm.
	1327, Bornholm's fourth district was sold to the archbishop by Lund.
	1521, Christian II took Bornholm.
	1525 for 158,019 Lübeck's marks got Lübeck of Frederik I Bornholm as pledge for 50 years.
	1576, Frederik II took Bornholm.
	1653 5000 of 13000 Bornholmer was carried off by the plague August.
	26., Bornholm comes loose of Sweden at the peace of Brømsebro February 1658.
	Decembers 1658 Bornholmer disarmed the Swedish troops and gave the island of Frederik III.
	9th Aapril 1940 Bornholm was occupied by German troops like the rest of Denmark.
	7. - 8 .Mai 1945 Bornholm was freed, but taken by the Russian armed forces.
	Rønne and Nexø were bombarded.
	1946 the Russian troops leave Bornholm April.
	1st Jjanuar 2003 Bornholm's 5 communes became a Bornholm's region commune fanfoldedly under the names to a political and administrative unity.