Village trail 1.2 – Pastors
The Wiberg family in the vicarage garden. Approx. 1870.
Jordløse has had many prominent pastors over the years. A list of them can be found below. We will only highlight two of them here.
Thomas Barfoed
“To the barefooted pastor of a landless town” This was how a letter was addressed to Pastor T. Barfoed in Jørdløse. Barfoed means “barefoot” and Jordløse means “landless”. It is said that he himself found it rather amusing. He was the pastor for Jordløse and Haastrup parishes from 1818-1845.He married three times and fathered 15 children. When he died in 1845, he was buried in the churchyard beside the two wives he had outlived.
After his death, his third wife Catherine moved to Bogense.
One of their shared grandchildren was the famous electrical entrepreneur Thomas B. Thrige.
Pastor T. Barfoed wrote diaries and poems, including an amusing poem about a rat infestation titled “Rotteballaden” (“the ballad of the rats”).
Sophus Wilhelm Wiberg
“Wibergs Præstehistorie” (Wiberg’s chronology of pastors) is a massive three-volume work about every single pastor in Denmark from the Reformation until 1873. The digitisation of Wiberg’s chronology was completed on 18 October 2014. This was the work of a team of typing volunteers and took just over a year. Wiberg was the parish pastor for Jordløse and Haastrup parishes from 1858-1882. He fathered nine children with his wife Vibeke Charlotte Holm. Both he and his wife are buried at the churchyard of Jordløse church.
Pastors in Jordløse parish
Ca. 1530 Knud Nielsen1555-1560 Thomas Ibsen
1560-1593 Jens Lauritzen Foul (Vogel) *ca. 1527 †1593
1593-1637 Christen Lauritzon, † after 1637
1637-1667 Laurits Andersson Hoff
1667-1700 Hans Lauritsen Achton
1700-1725 Laurits Nielsen Munch †1725
1725-1738 Poul Jensen Thorning *ca. 1700
1738-1751 Frederik Samuelsen Jahn *1703
1751-1754 Andreas Andreasen Eilschou †1754
1754-1773 Laurits Lillelund *1710 †1773
1773-1798 Peder Thorsager *1734 †1798
1798-1826 Mathias Gottschalch *1756
1805-1818 Johan Frederik Kurrelbaum Rasmussen *1774
1818-1845 Thomas Barfoed *1780 †1845
1845-1858 Ditlev Carl Hoskier *1812 †1896
1858-1882 Sophus Vilhelm Wiberg *1811 †1882
1882-1896 Edvard Magnus Buch *1820 †1900
1896-1897 Mads Christian Jørgensen *1860 †1897
1897-1905 Niels Søren Emil Wille *1863 †1936
1905-1922 Laurits Christian Sørensen *1862 †1922
1922-1930 Viggo Rasmus Lassen Houmand *1896 †1969
1931-1935 Carl Erik Thaning *1905
1935-1942 Søren Dissing *1909
1943-1962 Peder Munch-Madsen *1911 †1962
1962-2000 Poul Erik Severin *1930 †2002
2000-2003 Lars Berg Thomassen
2004- Rikke Gotfredsen
Jordløse village trail – Green route
- Village trail 1.1 – Jordløse Church
- Village trail 1.2 – Pastors
- Village trail 1.3 – Church land
- Village trail 2 – Town park
- Village trail 3 – The village pond
- Village trail 4 – Bystævnet
- Village trail 5 – Gammelgård
- Village trail 6 – The hermit
- Village trail 7 – The crofters
- Village trail 8 – Toftegård
- Village trail 9 – The station
- Village trail 10 – The hotel
- Village trail 11 – Frugtlunden
- Village trail 12 – The market town