Skarrild is a village (Danish: landsby) in
Herning Municipality
Herning Municipality is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Midtjylland on the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. The municipality covers an area of and has a population of 89,230 (1 January 2022). Its mayor is Dorte West, a member ...
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Danish
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, ''
kommune'') in
Central Denmark Region
The Central Denmark Region ( da, Region Midtjylland), or more directly translated as the Central Jutland Region and sometimes simply Mid Jutland, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish muni ...
(Danish, Region Midtjylland), a part of the
Jutland
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peninsula in northern
Denmark
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. It is notable as the location of the Danish Blues Guitar Festival and a memorial to RAF flyers who died there in 1944.
In 1944, it was the site of a deadly air
skirmish during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
near its
Romanesque church, at which there is a memorial to the
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...
fliers who died there.
["Grave of the Lancaster Crew," found at th]
Official government website
Accessed September 13, 2010. On 27 August 1944, a seven-member RAF crew in a
Lancaster ME650 from
East Kirkby were killed in a crash when a German plane shot it down.
The Danish Folk, Blues, and Ragtime Guitar Festival in Skarrild attracts many international entertainers, including
Thomasina Winslow
Thomasina Winslow (August 15, 1965 – January 13, 2023) was an American blues musician and the daughter of folk musician Tom Winslow. As a toddler, she sang back-up on her father's folk music classic ''Hey Looka Yonder (It's The Clearwater''); ...
.
Danish Folk, Blues, and Ragtime Guitar Festival website
Accessed September 14, 2010.
References
External links
Official government website in Danish
Profile at MBendi.com
Denmark Government Statistics Statistikbanken Tabel BEF44
Cities and towns in the Central Denmark Region
Herning Municipality
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