Par force hunting landscape in North Zealand
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How it came to be
The forests of North Zealand, north of Copenhagen, had been hunting grounds of kings, the church and nobles since the Middle Ages. In 1669 Frederick III ordered a beech wood to be fenced and deer driven into it, but he died in 1670 and the work was never finished.
His son Christian V set his army to work from 1670 on a ground for par force hunting, in which hounds run the quarry down. Roads were cut through the forests in stars set inside squares, and numbered stone posts showed whether a road led towards or away from the centre. To enlarge the park, the people of the village of Stokkerup were ordered to pull down their houses and use the materials to rebuild other farms.
In 1736 the hunting lodge on the hill in Jaegersborg Dyrehave was rebuilt in Baroque style as the Hermitage. The three forests of Store Dyrehave, Gribskov and Jaegersborg, 4,543 ha in all, were inscribed in 2015.
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