Skodborg Kommuneplantage

Plantation with historical roots. Grow up - be felled - and replanted. 

Sundbøl Plantation or Skodborg Municipal Plantation was cleared during World War II, when the Germans needed timber to support their large armoured trench. The Gudrun position, as the armoured trench was called, was a defensive position from Kolding to Ribe as a defence against an Allied attack from the north. The armoured trench was a kind of moat that was to stop tanks and was supplemented by barriers, trenches, trenches and positions for machine guns, mortars and cannon. A reconstruction can be seen at the Armoured Trench in Lintrup. 

The stone's text reads: The plantation cut down during the German occupation 1944-45. Replanted 1946-47.