Mail Coach tour in Denmark Lets take the roadmap to 1863 and take the mail coach on a trip from Aarhus to Copenhagen. The journey began at. 9 am at the post yard in Aarhus. From there we take a 7 1/2 hour rasletur with the closed stagecoach to Snoghoj at the Little Belt. Heres a good two hour wait before we board the mail boat over the belt. Once it has set sail and the wind is good, leads us to the Middelfart in an hour and a quarter. Now at approximately 9 in the evening, so we had to stay overnight at the inn. According to the roadmap came to to wait all the following day in Middelfart, because there was only one stagecoach day across Funen. It started at half past eight in the evening; the connection from the north ended here with the most important of all mail routes, the south that emerged from Hamburg in the morning. The trip over the county took over eight hours, including a short stop on the road and longer stays at the inns in Indslev, Gribsvad, Vissenbjerg and of course Odense. All places were changed horses, while the sleepy travelers were warmed with soup, coffee or toddy. The travelers arrived so good cold, shook and forvågede Nyborg four oclock in the morning. There was only time to rest for sissies, for now it went fast. The steamer was at the dock with smoky chimneys, prepared the three-hour boat trip to Korsor. And over there stood the locomotive also with momentum - the railroad was opened some years before. At 7:15 departed the train that ran across Zealand in just over three hours of arrival at the railway station in Kings Copenhagen 10.30. The journey from Aarhus had lasted two and a half days, of which the last 15 hours out in one stretch. In our time with many alternative transportation options with completely different speeds can be difficult to understand the revolution the first railway lines must have been. Post Office figured the average speed of the coaches at 1 1/4 mil, ie barely ten miles an hour, plus short stay at rest areas and longer rest at the inns. So it was a major step forward to the new era steam horses run around 30 kilometers per hour including stopping at stations. Post chariot time, however, was not over. Right up until after the turn of the century, large parts of Denmark yet served by postal carriages. In many places, the routes, however, left to private carriers. But the inns continued to have a mission as resting places for weary travelers.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 19:19:52 +0000
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