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. It is a part of Esbjerg Municipality in the Region of Southern Denmark.

History

Name

The first particle ''far-'' is believed to be an

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word which meant “ferry tation��, and the last particle ''-rup'' is derived from the

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word ''

thorp ''Thorp'' is a Middle English word for a hamlet or small village. Etymology The name can either come from Old Norse ''þorp'' (also ''thorp''), or from Old English (Anglo-Saxon) ''þrop''. There are many place names in England with the suffi ...

'', which meant “secondary settlement”. The name ''Nørre'' Farup (Norfarthrop; ''Northern Farup'') is known from 1352, about the same time that the village Lille Farup (Lillæfarthorp) on the opposite side of Ribe River acquired the name Sønder Farup (Synderfarthorp; ''Southern Farup''), but the name Nørre Farup does not seem generally used until the 1800s. On a

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from 1868 the village is yet mentioned as Farup (Fardrup) in Nørre Farup Parish (Nørre Fardrup Sogn), on a cadastral map from 1887 as Farup (Fardrup) in Farup Parish (Farup Sogn), and first on a cadastral map from 1907 as Nørre Farup in Farup Parish.

Early history

The

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Farup (Fardrup) is known from 1045, but the village Farup (Fartorp) is known first from the second half of the 1200s.

Modern history

January 14th, 1814, a

Cossack The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Eastern Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia. Cossacks played an important role in defending the southern borders of Ukraine and Rus ...

, who was patrolling in Nørre Farup after foreign troops invaded Denmark in the

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, was murdered there. The local Hans Hansen Bundesen admitted during questioning that he shot the Cossack in the back and the back of the head because the Cossack with his lance threatened him and his father, and both were therefore taken to

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there were in the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein several

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, i.e. farms or villages, which were owned by the

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. If a farm or village was owned by the Danish Monarchy, the laws and regulations of the Danish Monarchy applied, while the regulations of the Duchies applied for the other areas. In Nørre Farup some of the village was part of Riberhus

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, which was of the Danish Monarchy, and other was part of Kalvslund

Hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numerals, Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 (number), 99 and preceding 101 (number), 101. In mathematics 100 is the square of 10 (number), 10 (in scientific notation it is written as 102). The standar ...

, which was of the

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. April 1st, 1867, however, the whole village became a part of Ribe Hundred.

Geography

Nørre Farup lies on the geest-edge, i.e. the border between

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and

geest Geest (, , ) is a type of landform, slightly raised above the surrounding countryside, that occurs on the plains of Northern Germany, the Northern Netherlands and Denmark. It is a landscape of sandy and gravelly soils formed as a glacial outw ...

, and has preserved the distinct character of circular village around a

village green A village green is a commons, common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common pasture, grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other stock, often at the edge of a rural settlement, used for ...

, clearly defined against the surrounding landscape.HistoriskAtlas.dk (2020) ''Farup Kirkeby, Kærbøl og Nørre Farup''. https://historiskatlas.dk/@55.3586630,8.7342190,16z/ etrieved 2020-08-21/ref>

Notable people from Nørre Farup

* Søren Brorson (1875-1961), politician.

References

Cities and towns in the Region of Southern Denmark Esbjerg Municipality