Dorre Haal - Karup, Denmark - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

(DA) I tiden den omkring 3-årskrigen mellem Danmark og Tyskland (1848-1851) opstod rygter om, at 600 fanger (også kaldet slaver) var blevet løsladt fra fængslet i Rendsburg. Nu sagde rygterne, at disse var på vej mod nord, medens de hærgede og plyndrede overalt, hvor de kom frem. Rygterne nåede også til Karup, hvor der blev opstillet en frivillig borgervæbning. Snart trænede mere end 70 mand eksersits og anden krigskunst hver søndag formiddag. Et stykke tid senere blev det fra "højeste sted" beordret, at der skulle opstilles en deling af unge ugifte mænd. Delingen blev på 31 mand og skulle tage kampen op ved Gedhus syd for Karup. Da delingen skulle stille, mødte 30 mand og en enkelt kvinde Dorra Haal (forklaringen kan læses på infotavlen ved skulpturen af hende). Hvor længe delingen var opstillet, er ikke kendt, men den kom aldrig i kamp. Det viste sig nemlig at rygterne var det rene opspind. Den 3 meter høje træskulpturen af Dorra Haal, der er udført af kunstneren Søren Brynjolf, blev i 2006 opstillet til minde om begivenheden. Skulpturen, der står på et skjult betonfundament, er opstillet på et lavt område mellem Karup Å og Karup Kirke. Den er skåret af en gammel træstamme med en motorsav.

Dorre Haal, hvis døbenavn er Dorthe Larsdatter, er født I 1808. Da slavekrigen startede i 1848 var Dorre yderst fattig, og for at sikre sin datter og gamle mor en bedre fremtid lod hun sig indrullere I borgervæbningen i stedet for en rig gårdejers søn. Nu skete der ikke noget under slavekrigen, men løsningen var ikke langtidsholdbar for gårdmandssønnen. Han døde nemlig i 1864 under slaget ved Dybbøl. Dorre derimod levede videre og døde gammel af dage som 75-årig i 1883.

(EN) In the time around the 3-Years War between Denmark and Germany (1848-1851) was rumors that 600 prisoners (also called slaves) had been released from the prison in Rendsburg. Now, said the rumors that they were on their way north, while they ravaged and plundered wherever they went. The rumors also reached Karup, which established a voluntary militia. Soon more than 70 men trained eksersits and other war art every Sunday morning. A while later it was from the "highest point " ordered that there should be established a platoon of young unmarried men. The platoon was on 31 males and had to confront the slaves at Gedhus south of Karup. However, as the platoon was established 30 men and one woman went to war (Why Dorra Haal went to war, can be read on the infosign at the sculpture). How long time the platoon was established is unknown, but it never went into battle. It turned out that the rumors were pure fiction. The 3-meter-high wooden sculpture of Dorra Haal performed by the artist Søren Brynjolf, was set in 2006 to commemorate the event. The sculpture, which stands on a hidden concrete foundation, is set at a low area between the stream Karup Å and Karup Church. The sculpture is cut of an old tree trunk using a chainsaw.

Dorre Haal, whose given name was Dorthe Larsdatter, was born in 1808. When the slave war started in 1848, Dorre was extremely poor, and to ensure her daughter and elderly mother a better future, she enrolled in the militia instead of a rich farmer’s son. Now, nothing happened during the slave war, but the solution was not durable for the farmer's son. He died in 1864 at the Battle of Dybbøl. Dorre however, survived and died old of days 75-years-old in 1883.

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