Virket | |
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 Virket, Falster (1916 photo) | |
  Virket Location onFalster | |
| Coordinates:54°50′7″N11°58′34″E / 54.83528°N 11.97611°E /54.83528; 11.97611 | |
| Country | Denmark |
| Region | Zealand (Sjælland) |
| Municipality | Guldborgsund |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Virket is a village in centralFalster,Denmark. It belongs toFalkerslev Parish inGuldborgsund Municipality, inRegion Zealand. It is located approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) northeast ofNykøbing Falster. To the northwest isFalster Golf Club. The village lies along a road named Virketvej, which connects it toKraghave, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) to the southwest.[1]
Saxo Grammaticus tells us that in the middle of the 12th century the inhabitants of Falster often fled to a large fortification to escape attacks by theWendish fleets. He was probably referring to the huge earthworks,Falsters Virke, located beside Virket. In Old Norse,wirki meant fortification, as in the "Dannevirke" fortifications now inSchleswig-Holstein. First mentioned around 1250, the settlement was then documented asWirky.
At one time there was a manor in Virket. There are references in 1430 and 1452 to a judge named Mogens Falster and in 1472 and 1494 to Jørgen Falster whose son, Laurids Falster, was still alive in 1536. A daughter of Jørgen Falster married Anders Josephsen Bielke in Bellinge, and their descendants called themselves Falster. Mogens Falster Bielke owned Virket in 1546.
A stone ring with one large stone and 16 smaller stones in a semicircle was created in 1947 to commemorate the independence gained by the local farmers in 1766.
In addition to Falsters Virket, recent archeological investigations have provided evidence of an earlyIron Age settlement between Virket and Falkerslev. Graves from theViking Age have also been uncovered in the area.[2]
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