Esbønderup is a parish and small town situated north of Lake Esrum in Gribskov Municipality , North Zealand . some 40 km (25 mi) north of Copenhagen , Denmark . As of 1 January 2024, it had a population of 1,284.
8-559: The name is known from 1178 as Esbiornsthorp , derived from the male name Esbiorn (Esben) and the suffix -thorp . Other villages in the parish of Esbønderup were Esrum (1100: Esrom ), Saltrup (1359: Salthorp ), Villingebæk (1100: Widelingbec ) and Villingerød 1178: Withlingeruth ). The second doctor in Kronborg County was stationed in Esbønderup in 1738. Kronborg County Hospital ( Kronborg Amtssygehus ) opened in 1866 at
16-633: Is a type of cottage emblematic of the Swedish countryside. It comes from the Old Norse þorp . In modern usage, it is the classic Swedish summer house , a small cottage painted in Falu red and white, and evidence of the way in which urbanization came quite late to all of Scandinavia . Its characteristic falu röd colour is ubiquitous in Sweden and became popular due to the paint's affordability. In
24-493: The 16th century, a torp was a separate farm, usually established by a farmer who had moved out from a village, and which often grew to become a village in its own right. In 16th-century Sweden, which at that time included Finland , a torp was the term for the smallest size of the farm, paying a quarter of a "full" farm's taxes. When that classification became obsolete, a torp became a leased farm (with short lease times typically of one or two years), paid for with manual work on
32-532: The initiative of Friederich Carl von Gram, two years before Frederiks Hospital opened in Copenhagen. It was a small building, nine bays long and three bays wide, half timbered and with a straw roof. A public hospital was not opened in Helsingør until 1764. It was only used by the poor while people with means received treatment in their homes. The larger Øresund Hospital was inaugurated in Helsingør in 1796. It
40-593: The meaning of "simple second home", the concept exists under other names in Danish , Norwegian ( hytte – but the term torp is also used in Norwegian) and Finnish ( mökki or torppa ). The word is cognate with the English thorp (a secondary settlement or small group of houses in the countryside), which is found in many English placenames . Its meaning in Swedish has shifted over time. Before
48-469: The owner's fields. Since the mid-20th century, most of the surviving torp cottages in Scandinavia have come to serve as summer homes for city dwellers. Before that, being brought up in a torp was a sign of relatively modest ancestry, with lower status than that of lifelong tenants—and very much lower than that of freeholding farmers , however small their farm—although torp dwellers were higher on
56-408: Was merged with Hillerød Municipality . The old village, also referred to as Kirke Esbønderup, consisting mainly of houses from the 19th century, is located in the northern part of town. The modern district to the south now connects Esbønderup to Esbønderup Kohave. The two villages officially merged in 2010. Torp (architecture) A torp ( Swedish pronunciation: [tɔrp] )
64-466: Was reserved for the residents of the market town while those of the rural parishes belonged to the County Hospital in Esbønderup. A new hospital, inaugurated in 1867, was expanded with two new buildings in 1908. Esbønderup was the main town of the civil parish ( sognekommune ) of Esbønderup-Nødebo until the 1970 Danish Municipal Reform when it was merged with Græsted Municipality while Nødebo
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