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The small, cosy market town on North Bornholm is a very old town. Long back in history, the city has had other names.
Over 600 years ago the name of the town was Alland, which later became Allandt and Allent. In the early 1600s the town was given the name Alling, similar to what we know today. The first time the name Allinge appears in writing is in the mid-1600s.
In the Middle Ages, Allinge was only a small fishing village consisting of a few fishermen’s cottages and agricultural properties, but the town was nevertheless of great importance to the Hanseatic herring markets on the Baltic Sea. Oceans of herring could be caught in the Baltic Sea, which was mainly sold to Catholics in southern Europe. The Catholic people had a meatless day – a fast day – and they did not consider fish to be meat. During the herring season, the Hanseatic ships sailed back and forth between their towns, herring markets and their customers. During that time, prosperity came to the people of Allinge. But unfortunately this herring adventure stopped in the 1500s.
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The small, cosy market town on North Bornholm is a very old town. Long back in history, the city has had other names.
Over 600 years ago the name of the town was Alland, which later became Allandt and Allent. In the early 1600s the town was given the name Alling, similar to what we know today. The first time the name Allinge appears in writing is in the mid-1600s.
In the Middle Ages, Allinge was only a small fishing village consisting of a few fishermen’s cottages and agricultural properties, but the town was nevertheless of great importance to the Hanseatic herring markets on the Baltic Sea. Oceans of herring could be caught in the Baltic Sea, which was mainly sold to Catholics in southern Europe. The Catholic people had a meatless day – a fast day – and they did not consider fish to be meat. During the herring season, the Hanseatic ships sailed back and forth between their towns, herring markets and their customers. During that time, prosperity came to the people of Allinge. But unfortunately this herring adventure stopped in the 1500s.
In February 1883, 21 men from Allinge and Sandvig met at the town hall with the aim of forming a craftsmen's and industrial association. Initially, it was not intended to build a school, the plan was that it would only be evening school education at Allinge Borgerskole, but 12 years later, the Technical School is built.
Allinge Technical School is a beautiful ...
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On the small lawn stands a granite stone about 2 m high. It has not been possible to find any information about the stone in books or elsewhere, but some elderly citizens of Allinge say that the stone was erected in the early 1950s by the then owner of the land as a protest against impending plans to build a ...
The house and side building were built in 1866 by a very popular district doctor, Dr Poul Edward Peter Danchell, who was a doctor in Allinge from 1865 to 1896. From old papers it is stated that in the attic a dome was made that could rotate, it is believed to be a small version of an observatory, this part of the building no ...
The dome was built in 2012 in connection with a public meeting on Bornholm. The dome is owned by Boligselskabernes Landsforening ( BL ) and was designed by architects Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen. For the first few years, the Dome stood by the car park across the road, but as there was a desire for it to be a permanent building for ...
