The Dalgas stone

At the corner of Storegade and Brandlundvej i Brande you will find the Dalgas Stone - a memorial stone for the 'King of the Heathen', Enrico Mylius Dalgas. 

Dalgas was a Danish engineering officer and a pioneer in the cultivation of the Jutland heath. As an employee in the road service, he had, among other things, supervised the building of the Viborg-Holstebro main road. Here he had seen the possibilities that a large-scale heath cultivation would entail.

In Dalgas's person, radiance, professional skill and organizational ingenuity were combined, and as a writer and public speaker he became one of the best-known figures of his time, a national myth.

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