14 Facts About Jutland

West Jutland is characterised by open lands, heaths, plains, and peat bogs, while East Jutland is more fertile with lakes and lush forests.

Southwest Jutland is characterised by the Wadden Sea, a large unique international coastal region stretching through Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.

Jutland is a peninsula bounded by the North Sea to the west, the Skagerrak to the north, the Kattegat and Baltic Sea to the east, and Germany to the south.

Northernmost part of Jutland is separated from the mainland by the Limfjord, a narrow stretch of water bisecting the peninsula from coast to coast.

Medieval law Code of Jutland applied to Schleswig until 1900, when it was replaced by the Prussian Burgerliches Gesetzbuch .

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Jutland has historically been one of the three lands of Denmark, the other two being Scania and Zealand.

The Hanstholm fortress at the northwestern promontory of Jutland became the largest fortification of Northern Europe.

Coastal areas of Jutland were declared a military zone where Danish citizens were required to carry identity cards, and access was regulated.

East Jutland was more similar to Eastern Denmark in this respect.

The Golden Age painters found inspiration and motives in the natural beauty of Jutland, including P C Skovgaard, Dankvart Dreyer, and art collective of the Skagen Painters.

West Jutland is often claimed to have a mentality of self-sustainment, a superior work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit as well as slightly more religious and socially conservative values, and there are other voting patterns than in the rest of Denmark.

Jutland translated poems of Robert Burns to his particular Central Western Jutish dialect.

Jutland's wrote a memoir documenting the transition, From Jutland's Brown Heather to the Land Across the Sea.

Jutland moved to the United States with his parents in 1884.