3-016-815 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War in Denmark: Kolding, Jutland, the head-quarters of the Allied armies - from a sketch by our special artist, 1864. 'This small town, which has but four thousand inhabitants, stands upon the frontier of Jutland and Schleswig, at the mouth of a river, the Kong's Aa, which there enters an inlet of the Baltic Sea, The view taken by our Artist is from the south or Schleswig road. The large building with a square tower, at the head of the town, is Kolding Castle, which is a mere ruin, since the conflagration that befel it some fifty or sixty years ago, during its occupation by the Spanish troops, under the Marquis de Romana, on behalf of Napoleon I. To the right we see a range of low buildings, which form the Royal stables, the breeding of horses for the Danish army having been chiefly carried on here. These buildings, as well as the other houses in the town, are of a dingy red colour. The highroad passes through Kolding eastward fourteen or fifteen miles to Fredericia, the fortress which commands the strait called the Little Belt, separating Jutland from the island of Funen; whilst another road from Holding, northwards, leads, in about the same distance, to Veile, the scene of the last fight'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.