Viborg

Viborg, a town in critical Jutland, Denmark, is the capital of both Viborg municipality and Region Midtjylland. Viborg is also the seat of the Western High Court, the High Court for the Jutland peninsula. Viborg Municipality is the second one-biggest Danish municipality, covering three.3% of that usa's general land region. Viborg is one of the oldest cities in Denmark, with Viking settlements relationship back to the past due eighth century. Its vital area gave the city notable strategic importance, in political and spiritual subjects, at some stage in the Middle Ages. A motte-and-bailey-kind fort became once placed within the town.

Viborg takes its call from a combination of Old Norse words: vé, that means a holy region, and borg, which means a castle. Viborg is famous for Viborg Cathedral. The construction of the cathedral began in 1130 and took approximately 50 years. The constructing has burned to the floor and been re-built several times. Only the crypt of the unique cathedral is still preserved. The cathedral become and is the locus of cult of Saint Kjeld of Viborg who changed into dean of the cathedral bankruptcy there and had a excellent shrine there inside the Middle Ages.