Ribe's 1300th birthday

	Ribe 1300

Ribe from 710 to 2010
In 2010 Ribe, Denmark's oldest town, celebrates its 1300th birthday. During the year Ribe town and Esbjerg Municipality celebrate the birthday with local as well as national and international participation.

We hereby invite all citizens, associations, institutions and tourists to join us. The arrangements will focus on the history, nature and culture of Ribe.

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March - April - May - June and July 

 

August - September - October - November - December will follow later

 

What’s on at Ribe’s 1300 years celebration will be updated every other month or you can follow it on the official homepage: Ribe 1300

 

 

Blog and Facebook

Some of it will also be commented on Danhostel Ribe's blog

- and on Facebook, where fans sometime will get discount offers on accommodation during the year.

Danhostel Ribe takes part in:

• Earth Hour – We turn out the lights and Ribe’s watchmen will guide us safely through 1300 years of history in Ribe (arr. Danhostel Ribe and Gammelt Præg, Ribe Town Preservation)
• TV-chef Claus Meyer will in the Scandinavian TV-program Perfect Day - which will be shown in many countries - cook oysters, mussels and meet from the Wadden Sea. The crew staid at Danhostel Ribe and made their cooking for several days at the meadow outside the hostel, at Ribe Viking Centre and at The Wadden Sea
• Danish Championship in crawling on walls goes on in Ribehallen, the hostel’s sports hall
• My Ribe and Wadden Sea. Photo exhibition with more than 50 big photos from Ribe and the Wadden Sea photographed by Gudrun Rishede
• The Ribe Quilters have made a Ribe carpet that can be seen all year on Danhostel Ribe

All year

FILM AND TV

 

Perfect Day with Claus Meyer

The well known chef, Claus Meyer, being one of the men behind restaurant NOMA in Copenhagen, has visited Ribe to cook with the products of the Wadden Sea. Claus Meyer has cooked in Ribe at the Ribe VikingeCenter, directly at the Wadden Sea and on the meadow outside DANHOSTEL Ribe. The crew staid at the hostel during the filming in Ribe. The programs are produced by Tellus Works and will be broadcasted on Danish TV as well as internationally.

Info: Tellus Works, www.tellusworks.com,

 

The old Ribe on DVD

Watch the historical Ribe on these old recordings, found and cleaned and made into this extraordinary DVD collection. The recordings go back 100 years and show the development of town. The oldest parts show a town without cars or dykes and the Skibbroen being flooded. The inhabitants look strangely at the camera at this first encounter with new technique. The films were made by cinema director H.A. Bojsen 1907-1913 and from 1936-1955 by Alfred Lauridsen (Foto-Lauridsen). Big and small events are documented, such as the occupation of Denmark on April 9 1940 as well as the retreat of the Germans in summer 1945. The duration of the DVD will be of estimated 120 minutes.

Info: 24B FILM, www.24b.dk,

The hidden Ribe

Local TV station TVSYD show broadcasts about Ribe, where you get behind the house fronts and see things, not normally visible for tourists. See the hidden part of Ribe with cosy back yards, the strutting under Sct. Catharinæ Kloster and visit Brorson’s old bishops house Taarnborg. The viewers also get to know hiking trails, black sun and the Wadden Sea. Explore the series and then come to Ribe to see it all live. SydProduktion Aps produced the programs. The three broadcasts premieres at TVSYD January 6th, 13th and 20th 2010.Info: TVSYD, www.tvsyd.dk, and Ribe’s 1300 year anniversary,

Documentary on Jacob A. Riis

The Film company Citizen Dane, whose director Marcus Mandal has made programs like Director Marcus Mandal went to Danmarks Journalisthøjskole and Københavns Universitet. He has won a number of international awards for his work and he has become very fascinated by the story about Jacob A. Riis. Citizen Dane cooperates with an American company and is trying to raise money for a documentary on Jacob A. Riis.

Marcus Mandal was in Ribe in fall 2009 to make a trailer for the documentary. The trailer is to convey interest with investors and funds, so it will be possible to produce the documentary as a whole. Ribe’s 1300 year anniversary has supported the production of the trailer, which can be seen on the anniversary homepage.

Info: Citizen Dane, www.citizendane.dk, and Ribe’s 1300 year anniversary,

A royal family and KAREN BLIXEN - Out Of This World, is at the moment trying to raise money for a documentary on Ribe’s famous son, the photographer and journalist Jacob A. Riis.

HISTORICAL PROJECTS

All year. Historic atlas

The homepage www.historiskatlas.dk has been developed since 2006 by Odense Cities Museums as a portal for history mediation on the internet with interactive maps, text, pictures and other information. Now you can find many stories from Ribe. Click and learn something new.

Info: Historisk Atlas, www.historiskatlas.dk

All year. Our street

The tenant association of Ribe Town Centre invites all members and inhabitants in Ribe to dive into history and explore history on the spot where they live. The project involves the street itself, the house and former houses on that place, the inhabitants, the fittings, work and the garden. The inhabitants of Ribe are to be made curious on their own near surroundings and the result is new knowledge on Ribe and its people. Everyone can participate and there will be public meetings and lectures.

Info: Ribe Bykernes Beboerforening,

 

ARTS AND CRAFTS

All year. Ribe wallpaper "Ribe through 1300 years"

The Ribe wallpaper is a 10 meters long piece of art, telling the story of Ribe from its founding up till now. Famous people and buildings are part of it. The Ribe wallpaper is made by the artist Bernd Hobohm, and will be hanging at Ribe Byferie. The historical details are presented in cooperation with Museet Ribes Vikinger.

Place: Ribe Byferie, Damvej 34, Ribe.

All year. Tapestry made by the Ribe Quilters shown at DANHOSTEL Ribe

The Ribe Quilters are donating a large tapestry to be shown at the hostel,  Danhostel Ribe. The motives on the tapestry are all from Ribe, e. g. the cathedral, the stork in its nest on the old city hall, Sct. Catharinæ church, Queen Dagmar on Slotsbanken, the flood post and Maren Spliids house. In the middle of the tapestry is the logo Ribe’s 1300 year anniversary. Everyone is welcome to see the tapestry at Danhostel Ribe.

Place: Danhostel Ribe, Sct. Peders Gade 16, Ribe. Info: Danhostel Ribe, www.danhostel-ribe.dk

OTHER INITIATIVES

Anniversary stamps from Post Danmark

In celebration of Ribe’s 1300 year anniversary, Post Danmark publishes the 24th of March two stamps from Denmark’s oldest town at two different amounts. Further, the event will be named in Post Danmarks yearbook on stamp publications, first day covers on the publication day as well as great interest from philatelists all over the world.

Bertil Skov Jørgensen designed the stamps; his grand father was Helge Skov, bishop in Ribe from 1980 to 1991.

 

The Ribe animal – a Teutonic charm

Museet Ribes Vikinger is producing a copy of the oldest piece of jewelry found in Ribe. The charm can be dated back to before the foundation of town in 710; it was already made in about 680-700. It is a small plate with an animal and was found in Nikolaigade, where the first market place was situated. The charm can be bought in the museum shop at Museet Ribes Vikinger from 5th June.

Beer and wine

Ribe Brewery is making an anniversary beer with ingredients inspired by ancient beer traditions. The little wine club imports red wine and white wine, sold as anniversary wine. Ridley’s produces a jubilee dram with walnuts and sea buckthorn.

Disabled-friendly anniversary

The anniversary invites all organisers to think about disabled persons. We cooperate with students of ergotherapy on surveys about accessibility. The anniversary is also for inhabitants, who cannot take part in all the adventures surrounding it. Therefore, the health care departments in Esbjerg will 2010 make theme weeks with focus on historical food, when delivering food to the older people in the municipality.

Decoration of Ribe

Ribe Trade Association is contributing to the decoration of Ribe during the year. Welcome signs at the access roads, decoration of the shops and streets with flags and the anniversary logo will make Ribe look festive and inviting all year through.

The flower decorations in the streets are handled by the road unit of Esbjerg municipality. The summer flowers were chosen by an internet vote.

Info: Ribe Handelsstandsforening