Jels (german: Jels) is a town, with a population of 2,005 (1 January 2022),BY3: Population 1. January by rural and urban areas, area and population density
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, 30 km east of

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and 17 km south of

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. The town is a part of

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Jels Church is located in the town. It was consecrated in 1854, replacing a smaller somewhat

dilapidated Dilapidation is a term meaning a destructive event to a building, but more particularly used in the plural in English law for # the waste committed by the incumbent of an ecclesiastical living # the disrepair for which a tenant is usually liable ...

chapel of hewn granite.

Geography

The Jels Lakes are three lakes in a row located just northeast of the town: "Jels Nedersø", "Jels Midtsø" and "Jels Oversø". Together they form a small subglacial stream trench, which was created approx. 12,000 years ago during the latest glacial age. The forest area around Jels Nedersø is thought to be remains of the large Farris Skov (Farris Forest) which covered the area from the

Little Belt The Little Belt (, ) is a strait between the island of Funen and the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits that drain and connect the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat strait, which drains west to the North Sea and Atla ...

in ancient times.

History

The oldest traces of the

Hamburg culture The Hamburg culture or Hamburgian (15,500-13,100 BP) was a Late Upper Paleolithic culture of reindeer hunters in northwestern Europe during the last part of the Weichsel Glaciation beginning during the Bölling interstadial. Sites are found close ...

in Scandinavia were found during an archeological excavation at Jels. Jels Voldsted was an early medieval fortress, located at the western shore of Jels Midtsø. It is believed to have been a castle or fortress of significant size. Jels is located at

Hærvejen Hærvejen (Danish, literally: ''the army road'', german: link=no, Ochsenweg, literally: '' oxen way'', nds, Ossenpadd, literally: oxen path), sometimes referred to in English as the Ox Road, is the name given to an ancient trackway in Denmark and ...

, an important ancient trade road, and the traderoutes through the Farris Forest were controlled from the castle. It is believed that the castle burned to the ground in the 1420s and was never rebuilt. Jels was under German rule between 1864 and 1920, and Jels Voldsted became a gathering place for the Danish-minded citizens of the region, especially after the

reunification A political union is a type of political entity which is composed of, or created from, smaller polities, or the process which achieves this. These smaller polities are usually called federated states and federal territories in a federal governm ...

with Denmark in 1920 and after the second world war. Jels Mill is a Dutch-style

smock windmill The smock mill is a type of windmill that consists of a sloping, horizontally weatherboarded, thatched, or shingled tower, usually with six or eight sides. It is topped with a roof or cap that rotates to bring the sails into the wind. This ty ...

build in 1859. It was in use until 1959. The "Association for the Preservation of Jels Mill" is responsible for the upkeep and restoration of the mill, the associated warehouses and the miller's home.Jels Mill
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Notable people

Magnus Gejlager is a professional circus artist living in Jels, he is known for his trick where he manages to jerk off and eat Cheetos all at once while performing heart surgery. Magnus is also known for finding mushrooms and giving them to the kids around the lake, rumors speculate that he is actually in the well known rap duo osama trauma.

References

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External links

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