Ryomgård

History

Before roads were common in Denmark prior to 1700 the place where Ryomgård lies was one of the few passageways over the swamp and lake divide that separated the northern part of Djursland from the southern part. There was a toll station for passage, close to the manor house, Gammel Ryomgård, that dates back to the 17th century. Ryomgård came to life as a town in the late 1870s when a railway was established from Randers on mainland Jutland across the Djursland peninsula to the fishing- and seaport Grenå on the east coast of Djursland. Ryomgård lay midway between Randers and Grenå by the railway. The development of Ryomgård was further consolidated when another rail line was built between Ryomgård and Århus, Denmark's second largest city 30 kilometers south east of Ryomgård. This was also in the 1870s. In 1911 another railway line from Ryomgård to Gjerrild in the north of Djursland was added, making Ryomgård a railway hub on Djursland. Establishing a lower secondary school, Ryomgård Realskole, near the railway in 1913 contributed further to the growth of the town.

Geography

The climate in the region is temperate coastal, with an average summer temperature in July of 20 degrees Celsius in the day, and 12 degrees at night, and an average winter temperature in January with 5 degrees in the day and 1 degree at night (1961 – 1990) The average precipitation is 722 millimeters per year, making Ryomgård as well as the rest of Denmark well suited for farming. Barley, wheat, canola, and in recent years corn, are common crops in the farmland surrounding Ryomgård. The name "Ryomgård" comes from the Danish word Ryom, which is one of several old words for clearing in a wood. Also today the town is close to a central forested area on Djursland, the Fjeld and Løvenholm woods. Ryomgårds main street, Vestergade, is 17 meters above sea level. The town was founded above the north bank of a former sound that in the stone ages cut of north Djursland from the mainland making the northern part of Djursland an island. Newer parts of the town have been built on south facing hills up from to the former sound reaching an elevation above sea level of about 40 meters. At the top of the hills, where the land gets more flat, evened out by of ice sheets during the last ice age, 12.000 years ago, the most recent new housing is seen.

Most-observed species

• Red Kite

  Milvus milvus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  7,891
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,740
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  6,937
• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  6,690
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  6,470
• Common Buzzard

  Buteo buteo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  6,296
• Hooded Crow

  Corvus cornix Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  6,104
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5,372

Most recent

• M 4.2 — 2012-08-06
  39 km WSW of Steninge, Sweden
• M 2.6 — 2005-03-16
  13 km NNW of Kalundborg, Denmark
• M 2.8 — 2005-03-03
  29 km E of Ebeltoft, Denmark
• M 3 — 2005-02-03
  29 km NNW of Nykøbing Sjælland, Denmark
• M 3 — 2005-02-03
  32 km E of Ebeltoft, Denmark
• M 2.7 — 2005-02-01
  32 km SE of Grenaa, Denmark