Rø plantage

Rø Plantage is part of the high-rise North Bornholm, where the mountain range is visible or only covered by a thin layer of soil. In the rest of Denmark (and on Southbornholm), the base mountain is far below the surface, covered with thick layers of soil, lime, sand, gravel, clay and, not least, sea deposits such as sand and limestone. The root rock seen in Rø Plantage consists of gnejs, which is 1.7 billion years old. The plantation is intersected by several crevices, the largest being Nørre and Søndre borgedal, the last of which houses an artificial lake, Borgedalssøen.

The Iron Age society was characterized by both social differences and turmoil. Funds of war graves and weapon sacrifices in mosses point to the fact that society was being militarized. Graves with mutilated bodies indicate unrest. Probably, therefore, people of the day set a haven of refuge on a very accessible rock cliff high up between the two great scattered spells. Here, the residents of the area could seek refuge with livestock and possessions, protected by the inaccessibility of the rock sides and a 275 meter long stone fence for the rest.

Nobody knows when the high-rise became loud. But the original forest has become smaller and smaller ever since the age of conquest, where the forestry started. At that time, the trees had to shy away from the agriculture of the day, and more and more forests were being taken to farmland and then to cities and other human activities.
The forest that was left was used intensively to get wood and wood. At the same time, the peasants sent their pigs in the woods in the autumn, where they ate the old, who would otherwise be the next generation's trees. The old pigs overlooked, turned into small trees, and they became eaten the next summer when cows and sheep came on grass. As a result, both in Bornholm and in the rest of Damark, the forest eventually disappeared.

On Bornholm, the forests were on the island to cliffs with heather and one. The high-rise area was called the area and it filled about one-fifth of the island's area until the afforestation began in the 1800s. At the height of the crowd, the people continued their activities from the time they were forest: they picked up the firewood, they were heathering and picking peat in the mosses, and they sent the animals to the grass. Formally the king's property was high, but a kind of alleman's law was practiced.


In 1800, King Christian decided on the 7th that Almindingen was to be restored, among other things in order to obtain oak for the fleet. But only in 1832 it was decided that the right of allemony to the high should be abolished. Then another ten years passed before the crowd was divided between the state and the island's parishes.
In just under a quarter of the crowd, the king would travel for his own sake. The rest turned into landowners or was divided among the country cemeteries, which also had to plant forests.

Several years went by with a slow distribution process and various legal developments, but in 1863 Rø Plantage was fence with a 10 kilometer long stalk. Two years later, the afforestation began. Lyng and one had to shy away from wood, larch and redwood.

Due to the thin layer of soil, the trees in Rø plantation are very exposed to storms and the plantation has been hit by violent storms several times. Quite wrong, it went in 1967, when a storm overturned huge amounts of wood-fired wood. Not only Rø Plantage had been hit, and although forestry workers and sawmills worked all they could, it was not possible to gather and cut the tree before mushrooms and insects would destroy it. The solution was to tune up the river in Søndre Borgedal, so that the tree could be put into water and thus preserved until it was time to process it.
Actually, the scheme would have been temporary, but Borgedalssøen is still there.