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<< Our Photo Pages >> Kirsten Piils Kilde - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Denmark in Hovedstaden

Submitted by praeceptor on Friday, 22 April 2011  Page Views: 5007

Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Kirsten Piils Kilde
Country: Denmark
NOTE: This site is 0.244 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Hovedstaden Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring

Latitude: 55.777083N  Longitude: 12.570400E
Condition:
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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4 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Kirsten Piils Kilde
Kirsten Piils Kilde submitted by praeceptor : Site in København Denmark (Vote or comment on this photo)
Holy Well or Sacred Spring in København

The source was after an uncertain handover discovered by an otherwise unknown Kirsten Piil in 1583. After the story Kirsten was a pious woman, who by her holy ways source gave a special healing power to the source that got sick people to pilgrimage to the source for healing drinking water.

In 1732 the source was recovered as buried. It is a consequence of Deer Park paddock in 1670, which prevented access to the source. The royal dance champion Brinckmann, who lived in a house with wigmaker JC Greve, funded a renovation. Fragments of the stone with the year 1736, as the two gentlemen intent is found later.

During this time got the sources further significance. Many lived in cities where drinking water was bad. Especially was the Copenhagen drinking much less than the clean, cool and fresh water from springs in the park, which therefore could easily be perceived as curative.

The increased traffic to the sources were linked to disease and healing, and the churches put up so-called "poor blocks" at high-traffic sources. The blocks were poor money shrine of solid construction, equipped with a padlock. Here the passersby could show kindness by putting money in.

In 1712, money from a poor block by Vangede Source helped finance the construction of Gjentofte Hospital. In 1852 the hospital was divided into two, Gentofte, Lyngby and each got their own building with eight beds each. In Lyngby they called it "Vartou" and it was built by Lyngby Church.
At that time a hospital was an asylum for the poor, widows and others who could not fend for themselves. It was run by the church as a sort of poorhouse. Those who stayed in the hospital, was called "paupers" or "limbs". The money from the poor block had great significance for contemporary social creature. As the search for Kirsten Piil Source presumably was greater than Vangede Source, Struensee in 1754 ordered the poor block to be moved to the Kirsten Piil Source.

Meanwhile, Count Reventlow in 1750 restored the source surroundings again, and ran the source through a tube of wood in a "armthick" beam. The search for the source was high, and revenues increased year by year certainly helped by Frederik 4, which each year on Midsummer night came and drank the water after which he was strolling on the hill and drank tea at the Hermitage. The three weeks around the glow became a "source time", besides kings and good people, attracted both jugglers, tightrope walkers and musicians with their tents and stalls.

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Kirsten Piils Kilde submitted by praeceptor : Site in København Denmark (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Kirsten Piils Kilde
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Kirsten Piils Kilde
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Kirsten Piils Kilde
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