Liselund Plantage – The plant
For many years, efforts had been made to provide Skive’s inhabitants with easy access to beautiful surroundings or to gather for meetings and parties in the open air. South of the town at the edge of the meadows and east of the gravel pit at the later Harders Teglværk, there was a small plantation with small stunted trees, called “Liselund”, with a facility that was used by the townspeople for parties, meetings and anniversaries. The road down there went from the top of Sønderbyen and curved along the church wall and was called Plantagevej (today Søndergade). It is not known for certain when the Liselund facility came into use, but probably in the mid-1700s. It is also currently unknown how the name Liselund came about.
Liselund in the 1700s – 1886
The “Liselund” society held summer balls here every year for its members and therefore had a dance floor placed on the festival site in the orchard. On festive occasions, the festival square was illuminated by colored lamps, and Chr. the Ninth or “The Brave Country Soldier” was seen in magnificent transparency. There was also a “pavilion”, a low wooden shed of unplaned boards, probably serving alcoholic drinks. Hambach, who had a tavern in Sønderbyen, was the Association’s host for a number of years.
In addition to summer balls for the association’s members, events were also held for the town’s common people:
– Disc shooting
– Garden and harvest festivals, children’s balls)
– Constitution celebrations, Sct. Hans parties)
– Anniversary celebrations (3-year war), including the Battle of Isted Hede and the Battle of Fredericia
– Outdoor meetings
The construction of the new and magnificent facility along Havnevej began in 1877, and in 1886, when it had grown reasonably well, they began to hold constitutional celebrations and meetings in this facility, and soon after the “Liselund” saga was almost over.
Liselund from 1886 – early 1950s
However, it appears that parties were held in the old facility in Liselund Plantation, at least until somewhere in the early 1900s.
To the east of the plantation, the plots were subdivided into building plots and built on in the first half of the 1900s. Today, the oldest houses in Liselund “East” are from 1920 and 1922, but there may have been buildings earlier, as at least 5 buildings disappeared in connection with the construction of the railway station in Søndergade.
In 1936-37, Skive Cemetery was extended all the way down into the plantation, and despite warnings that a Skive-Struer railway was later planned to run through here, the plantation was still used for burials. Later, the burials that had already taken place in the area were dug up and moved to other parts of the cemetery. In 1945, the parish council decided that the dead German refugees should be buried in the plantation. Almost 100 graves were dug in the plantation, but in the mid-1960s they were moved to Grove-Gedhus.
Liselund from 1956 – 1962
The new railway station with platforms, which was added in 1956-1962, is today located approximately 150 meters east of where Liselund Plantation was located. Today, Liselund still exists, not in the form of a plantation, but as a small district, in the form of the remaining southern part of the buildings that the railway station project did not remove.
By following the boundaries and lines on old city maps, cadastral maps and aerial photos, it can be deduced that the shape, location and size of the plantation seen on contemporary maps is approximately as shown on the map below:
Contemporary aerial photo with location of the plantation
See also the
Sources
The book about Skive 1326-1926, page 93, 117 454, 455
Skive books from 1940-1960
Advertisements from Skive Avis (1858-1861)
Mediastream at the State Library
Danish Demographic Database