FASCINATING C19th Funen Village, Odense, Denmark

FASCINATING C19th Funen Village, Odense, Denmark

[Music] Yeah. No, there’s plenty of parking here. The parking spaces are not particularly wide, but we’ve parked close together, so we should be all right. It’s a nice morning. So, let’s go and have a look at the village. Yeah, that’s quite a quite a map. It is. Okay. Very nice building. Doors are going to close on me. Okay. So, oh wow. Oh, there we are. There’s the bigger map. Yeah. So, we’re there, aren’t we? Just come out there. So, I think that’s where we come out. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. So, 16 is husband M husband’s debt for Turup or small small holding from Turup. Okay, there’s all that’s stables and a wagon. Here’s your Here’s your look tavern. This is from different villages. They brought these over from different villages. This is from You’re going to have to excuse my pronunciation, but Sortter, bro. There we are. vine 95 croner ale number 16. Okay. And then there’s all these sandwiches there. Yeah. I wonder is it a real cafe or Yeah, it’s at the moment. Okay. 11. Okay. Maybe on the way back. Yeah. Yeah. It’s I It’s quite It’s good, isn’t it? It’s not like pristine or anything. It looks like, you know, looks like it’s used. Yeah. [Applause] A little exhibition in here by looks of it. Yeah. To wear wooden clogs. Yeah. You like uh leather as well. Leather, wood, reed slippers. [Music] All sorts of things here. Just got a little This is a sort of a 2000s, isn’t it? 2021. We buy everything and buy when something new is pleasurable. Shopping can create dopamine. Got a few of those. Food CO2. In the past, they consumed a little, used a lot. s and got new clothes, possessed few decorative items and little that was purely for pleasure. Today we can get a hold of any food we like. We use energy to import and cool products and heat green houses. Yep. In the past, they grew their food locally. Eggs, salt, rye, dried peas, salted pork, chives. There a little shop here. Have you found a new friend? Yes. Oh, hello. There’s no one behind the counter. This is obviously their shop. The slippers look very comfortable. Yeah, I suppose they might be more comfortable than I think people were a bit shorter than Yeah. Yeah. Mind your head. Yeah, they were about my height. I’m actually your I like the slippers here. Very hug. This is lovely, isn’t it? To coin a phrase. Cook it all a kit eating and cooking all in one place. Traditional Danish game game for two persons. The aim is to keep your balance while being fast and crafty. Use two pieces of rope to tie the legs of the participants together as shown in the picture. Now pull one leg or let go in order to throw your opponent and off his balance. I don’t think we’ll be trying that. You two going to do that? No. No, I don’t think I’ll be doing that. What do you do with the stick? So the point about the wooden animals here is they would have had animals roaming around, wouldn’t they? So goats in the fam village. This long period, the goat was considered more as vermin than a utility animal. Freeranging goats destroyed fences and the forest floors. King Christian the first banned them on the aisle of Funan. Didn’t have the desired effect. King Christian three issued a ban for the country as a whole against keeping goats in an enclosure. And after 1850, the attitude of goats changed. It was considered the poor man’s cow. Goat required nothing more than a grassy bank. Yeah. Whatever. Yeah. See, Poppy, that’s what we need to keep the grass bear down at home. You should have left a goat at home. They should left a goat at home. I’m sure no one would mind. Yeah. You’re very cute, aren’t you? Yeah, you’re a baby. Yeah. Don’t know what to make a pocket. Know it’s a dog. Probably used to seeing dogs, aren’t they? I suppose. Yeah, we’re seeing milk as well. Come on, Pop. Don’t get your nose in too close, though. There’s electric fence. Oh, it’s a skittle alley. Okay. [Applause] And I’ll film you. High expectations of my Here we go. Then we’re going to have a game of Skittles. Way you go, Sue. Oh, pathetic. Oh, look at strike. That was for luck and judgment. Not bad, was it? That’s all you had to do. Not one over. Yeah. [Applause] The sunflowers are so that way. I like that little seat in there. [Applause] Oh, this is the mill. Is it? I don’t know. Have a look. There’s the waterway, isn’t there? Okay. Well, there’s a slle here, isn’t there? So, there must have been a mill here. Yeah. Come on, P. You’re all right. It’s okay. There you go. Good girl. Don’t look down. Come on. Yeah. This was the watermill. You know what it needs, don’t you? Like Blissail or or Beamish. It needs people working in here. Yeah. I thought Sassy film people, but just for that. Okay, Poppy. [Music] Oh, look at this chest. There’s obviously a wealthier family here, pictures on the wall and big chests. And must have been the mill owner’s house. Mill was down. Water wheel be down there. [Music] That’s it. That’s all you need, isn’t it? A pot to pee in and a little bed. This is the bakery. It says there’s a store room. You fancy that. There’s a bed there. Yeah, I’m just saying. Okay. It was a tucked away, wasn’t it? This one. Yeah, that’s when I watched that film about it. He said a lot of people slept in like these elves. Yeah. Yeah. There was obviously all the gears here. You You go first then, Bob. Okay. Watch your step. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, wow. There’s a trap door thing there. Oh yeah. See all the workings. Obviously would have stored things up here I guess as well. Watermill from Gavinda is typical for Funan and is an example of the 200 to 300 watermills characterized the island’s landscape since the beginning of the middle ages. Mill was called a winter mill. i.e. used only during the winter. The water level in the mill pond uh to which water was directed from the village stream was so low in summer that the pond could not be used could be used to graze the animals. The oldest of the buildings is the mill house. This is six bays long and two stories high. Complete in 1832. Milhouse was installed in the cellar and three quarns, one for rye, one for grain and a huller. A further quarn for shifting grain was added some years later. The mill works were driven by a millhe measuring six Allen 3.75 m in diameter. The interior is from 1880. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. The other one here. [Music] All right. Workshop from the water mill to the windmill. Okay. No, it’s just well worth a visit. I’m glad we came. Enjoying it. Just didn’t have the weather yesterday. The sports field here. Sports thing. Okay. No, it’s a stadium, isn’t it? Okay. Must have events on there. Little stadium. Let’s have a look at the windmill. Yeah. Here’s the mechanism for turning the sails into the wind. Crank it round on the chain. So, is it a post? What do they call it? A post mill. So, the whole thing the thing turn Oh god, Bobby. Oh, no. Sorry. Yeah, the top one, the top part turns. Obviously, this is fixed as you can see. [Music] It’s just what they call technical diagrams here. Hello. Hello. Hello, Poppy. Poy, you’re a big fan. Poy. Yeah, your number one fan of all dogs. All dogs. Have a look up the stairs. [Music] There we go. It’s the big mill. That’s the post for turning the top of the windmill. Wow. There we go. Dutch windmills became increasingly dominant in Denmark from the end of the 18th century when green grain yields increased located on elevated points in the landscape away from sheltering trees or buildings. Mill is octagonal and constructed primary of pine timber and a thatched roof like the original Dutch windmills. Special feature of Dutch windmill is a rotating top which is yorded into the wind using winches and cross beams. Canvas on the sails is unfurled so they can catch the wind inside. The mill is divided into four mills the millstones and the entire mill work. These are hostas. Okay. They can get eaten. would never have known that or slugs. Oh, do they? They’re like slugs. Or the slugs like these ones are obviously doing really well. Yeah, trying to They do have flowers. You can see the remains of them there. Okay. They’re going to seed like um sweet peas, aren’t they? They’re the seeds then presumably seed pods. [Applause] It’s absolutely beautiful, isn’t it? Yeah. I think these are a still bee. They have like fely like flowers on them. They look like a still bee. Okay. I’m glad we brought our botist with us. Only some of the flowers. What got here, Jay? [Applause] It’s one of those bity. One of what? One of those stones is a bit slippy. Okay. She’s trying to eat weeds all the time. Okay. She’s thirsty. Well, she wants something to eat. Is that her food? Yeah, I’ve got her food. Okay. A little bed in there. Oh, it’s where the beer’s kept. This is not a stable. This is actually the stables. Yeah. Oh, is it We’re back in the stables, are we? No. No. Oh, it’s another set of stables. Okay. I think they were probably the stables for that house. So, we don’t want people to pinch the exhibits. No. The fire with the bellows. Quite possible if it’s got no windows on it. Oh, yeah. This is like a bedroom. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There’s a bed here. I think I read I can’t I think it was at Frederick’s ball. They were saying why the double beds were so short. People used to sleep sitting up. Why? Why we changed to sleeping sitting down? But here this is quite This is quite nice, isn’t it? You can shut yourself off. You’ve got any whining dogs at night. You just shut your shut your door. You can’t hear them. I suppose this fairly long. I bet the mattress is very comfortable. They’re probably itchy. Itchy full of fleas. Yeah. Quite a big house. Oh, there’s a loom here. Look. Yeah. Iron stove. Ooh, someone’s gone for Poppy. I don’t know. Don’t eat that, Poppy. No, what are you trying to eat? Hey, just grab that ball. Don’t need that. Come on. Oh, this is nice. This is posh, isn’t it? Yeah. Oh, I’ve even got little curtains on. Yeah. Little pelmets. Bless you. I think the wall got a 1614. Look how good that is. Complex building. Typical fing represents an average size farm in the 19th century. Copy hold owned by different manners until 1760 when it sold as freehold. One family owned and ran the farm till 1943. In the mid 19th century and mid 20th, it was the female side of the family that owned the farm. This was rare at the time. This farm builder is one of the oldest surviving farm buildings in Denmark. This is the ridge. Where is it? There we go. The ridge post constructed wings contain significant elements from the 16th century. It’s good this we’re enjoying it. Probably could spend a whole day here really, couldn’t you? Wandering around and picking things up. But uh I wonder what they used to suffic pink. Yeah. Used to be pig’s blood, didn’t it? Yeah, that’s right. Could have been [Applause] carriages. Oh, look there. Slay sleigh. Vicorage stables here. Wow. Typically one of the biggest farms in the village. This large wing contains stables and a barn and a large number of animals supposedly at the beginning of the 20th century. It’s 52 m long. It is the vicorage garden had a hazel walk who provided a solitary stroll in the garden and the garden pond. Both these were inspired by romantic or English gardens introduced to Denmark in the 18th century. This garden was reconstructed in the 1990s. Romantic gardens bringing nature into close contact with the buildings. Oh yes. Oh, this is a bit posher. Yeah, obviously it’s the vicorage, isn’t it? Yeah. Oh, beds. Two double beds in there. Church. Oh, it’s a little chapel in there as well. Yeah. Like a mini organ. [Music] [Music] Yeah. A proper side bedroom. Yeah. Yeah. A map of Denmark. And a map of Denmark. Okay. So, where are we then? There. Yeah. There. Nicely colored it green. See where you are? Yep. We’ve been way up there. Arsenal. That’s Kilda. Kilda. Then we come across. It says die there. Die belt. Um, so you know, you’ve got no bridge. No. So you’ve got to There’s that that little island. Yeah, that’s right. That was the island where the bridge goes now. Yeah. And there is this way. If you went that way, there’s a the moment there’s a ferry there and I think there’s a bridge there, but Okay. Must be in the bath. The boiler tin bath. They’re quite spacious rooms. Is this the bathroom? Bathroom. Yeah. There’s a shower. Shower. Yeah. Yeah. You like it in here, Bobby? Copper thing. Yeah. Yeah. Copper boiler. A fire underneath it. Yeah. one of those. Not like that, but yeah. Oh, wow. Look at the size of the range. Plates. This is big house. You would need something like that. Yes. So, so butter tune. It’s a vicorage though, isn’t it? So, is it? Yeah. Lots of things in jars. Lots of implements in there. So, this this is how you do have to do your washing, isn’t it, without I thought it was a butter chair, but I might be wrong. Oh, maybe. Or is it a washing boat? It might be. You might be right. What is that? Well, that’s for doing your washing. Yeah, that’s for doing your washing. Anyone who knows, let us know what these things are cuz we’ve no idea what that is. This definitely There’s irons in here. And there’s an iring board. I board. Yeah. And that’s a ringer in it cuz someone’s ring put all those clothes through it. That’s it. There’s someone else’s eyed and Yeah, we could do our washing here, couldn’t we? We need to do some washing. Moving on. Look like a man cave in here. What would this be then? Grain store. Yeah, it must be or a milk store. I don’t know. A bit worried here. She’s a bit worried. What are you worried about? Well, there’s a hole and then there’s that. You can do it if your mom lets go the lead a little bit. Come there, pups. There she goes. Wait. No. I like this a lot. Yeah. Jenny says there’s a chicken in here, but I think she’s hearing things. No, there’s a chicken in there. There’s a cockroid. [Music] Yeah. Thank you, Denmark. Yeah. This is the hospital. Yeah. [Applause] hospital be working in there. So yeah, not a lot of space. It’s the two a bit low as well. Yeah, just that is a big one. There’s a huge huge house. Yeah, it’s the poor house. Lord of the Mana would provide housing for the poor and old who’d worked all their lives on the estate. Hospital from Cataran was at least one of four of six planned identical hospitals built by the baron of Holston Hus in the 1780s. The well has been filled in. It’s been filled in. Oh, that’s a shame. Yeah. Found the toilets here. Won’t be a minute. Sorry. Oh, sorry. Can you shut the door behind? Yeah. Yeah. It’s so peaceful, isn’t it? Walking along here does remind me of that 1820s village at Beamish cuz that was like this. Yeah. But not on this scale. Like a step back in time and quiet and Yeah. Oh, it’s good. Yep. chicken. Know your food. [Music] Is that real? Don’t know the boots. Oh, look at this. [Music] [Music] was coughing their guts up there. I think that’s part of the sound effects. animals in there. Yeah. Check on the animals. The other one. It’s a bit complicated this, isn’t it? God, it’s an invisible goat. I don’t know, Poppy. They’re having me on, aren’t they? Yeah, says before 1850, sheep were more common than pigs on the island. In 1682, a livestock count in 10 funeral villages revealed 310 cattle, 544 sheep, and 336 pigs. That’s very accurate. There’s more pigs than people now, isn’t there? Apparently. Oh, that’s declined, hasn’t it? The numbers declined. It’s gone down. Yeah. Okay. Looking for somewhere to eat now. Okay, puppy. Yeah. All having lemonade. Traditional lemonade even that was apple lemon and ginger black currant. I forget what this one was. Find out in a minute. Elderberry. Elderberry flour. That’s quite strong and it’s quite thick. Mhm. Was it a pork sandwich for Trev? Yes. Gerkins. Yeah. Yeah. Nice pancakes. Mhm. Quite so much. And we got a cheese board and some bread. So quite a traditional meal I suppose. Yeah, highly recommend it here. It was good uh if you are in the area village. Um the next video we’re off to Reese Feria Park which I believe means holiday park and uh that’s going to be on Jutland which is the main peninsula in Denmark. Uh so watch out for that. There’s even a dishwasher here. Obviously, you pay for it, but Yeah. And a microwave. I don’t know whe That’s good though, isn’t it? Yeah. These got two burners. Yeah. So, you cook your own meals in here if you want. Actually, my cooker looks cleaner than that. Not allowed to reserve oral block seating for later

The Funen Village (Danish: Den Fynske Landsby) is an open-air museum located in the neighbourhood of Fruens Bøge in Odense, Denmark.

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:18 Map of the village
01:06 Tavern
01:52 First impressions
02:04 Exhibition
03:24 Shop
04:13 Games
06:36 Water mill
11:05 Sports stadium
11:18 Wind mill
16:51 Farm
18:47 English garden
19:02 Vicarage
23:51 Cockerel
24:26 Hospital
25:06 Toilets
25:26 A step back in time
26:10 Real animals?
26:27 Working from home
27:19 Invisible goat
27:50 Retire to the tavern
29:09 Next video

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