35.
Ordbog over det danske sprog, opslagsord: Ciffer 3.
36.
Ordbog over det danske sprog, opslagsord:Tur 1.5. Ord-
ret hedder det i toldbogen 1761 fol. 65: ”
Thurer af Flor til
Fruentimmer 6 Stk. værdi 3 Rd.
”
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Jacobs: op. cit., 1991, p. 34.
39.
Formentlig kagesporer.
40.
Emaljelignende glas med en smuk blå farve; smalte.
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Hovedbestanddelen i krudt er salpeter, som blev bragt
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1991, p. 85.
44.
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Summary
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Holland was the
centre of trade with goods from every corner of the world,
and many Jutland cities had goods sent from there. In the
seventeen hundreds, Hjerting, the biggest import harbour in
the northern part of the Wadden Sea, was Varde’s customs
point. Based on the surviving customs account from seven
years in the 1700s, this article provides a detailed picture of
imports from Holland, mainly dyes, drugs, foods, textiles,
building materials and raw materials
Holland was practically the sole supplier of foreign
goods to Hjerting in the early 1700s, but as the century pro-
gressed, Hamburg won an increasing share of the market
and took over many of the supplies which had previous-
ly come from Holland. Hamburg was also the supplier of
many of the new consumer goods which were introduced
during this period. Holland still supplied many of the same
goods as before, but they appeared old fashioned and decid-
edly practical in comparison with the range from Hamburg,
the variety and refinement of which reflected the new era’s
interest in personal hygiene, interior design, fashions, mu-
sic, reading and writing skills.
The 1700s customs accounts reflect many contemporary
trends, global as well as national, regional and local. They
show that colonial goods from Asia and the West Indies
found their way to local Jutland markets. This was partly
due to the contacts local shipmasters had with Amsterdam
and Hamburg and partly to the fact that Copenhagen was
granted privileged status with regard to the import of and
trading in certain goods, which consequently came to Hjert-
ing from east Denmark. While Copenhagen obtained its
supplies directly from its colonies, southwest Jutland turned
its attention to Amsterdam, the centre of colonial trade, and
imports from Copenhagen comprised only goods, trading in
which was regulated under the Copenhagen privilege. Most
goods imported via Hjerting were sent on to the rest of Jut-
land, so although Hjerting was a major import harbour, its
market town, Varde, received only a small portion of the
foreign goods. Apart from smuggled goods, there were not
particularly many exotic goods in the Varde area, and when
a local farmer paid a visit to his local grocer and merchant
in Varde, he probably only saw a fraction of the many kinds
of goods imported.
At the same time as Hamburg’s products gradually re-
placed Dutch products in Hjerting, Holland also lost a share
of the world market. The 1700s saw increasing competition
for the Republic from London and Hamburg, and with the
French invasion of the Dutch Republic in 1795 and the dis-
solution of the VOC a few years later, Holland’s domination
of world trade was a thing of the past. As the imports from
Holland were not of a nature to leave lasting tracks, there
are now only a small number of things left to remind us
of the once very close trading links between Holland and
Southwest Jutland.
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