Danehof

Danish national assembly

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significance of Vordingborg

  • Vordingborg: "Goose Tower"
    In Vordingborg

    …favourite meeting place of the Danehof (national assembly), at one of whose meetings the oldest national statute was published (1241). The city was chartered in 1415. In the 14th century Valdemar IV built the curious “Goose Tower,” crowned with a golden (now copper) goose weathercock, on the grounds of his…

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