Linnaeus goes to Höganäs and Kullaberg
The journey from Helsingborg to Kullen went on the sandy beaches, since no roads existed.
On their way they passed Höganäs “a big fishing
settlement with a important harbour and fishing industry.” He also described fishing tools and all kind of fish captured here.
The old ritual alongside the coast and tools to capture worms for fishing angle were described by Linnaeus and can still be seen in small the fishermen’s museum in Lerberget.
He stayed the night in the inn at Viken, a busy fishing and farming village then. Today Viken is a seaside resort. Here they had to stay two days because the lack of horses. “The locals were more used to travel by sea than in a horse carriage”.
Linnaeus noted that 300 fruit trees in the orchard and an abundance of lavender and white lilies growed in the garden of Krapperup. Linnaeus stayed at the home of Captain von Kochens, which was built in the late 16th century and rebuilt in the 1790s. Aquavit of good taste was made of windfalls. Here used to be a quelle for heeling water where people threw their coins on a midsummerday. On the order of Von Kochen one example of all the species of captured fish Linnaeus would hand over the following morning for examination. He found that the herring was the fattest and best he had seen.
The steep walls of Kullaberg ( Kullen Mountain were higher than the highest church). At Kullaberg, Linnaeus described the twisted primary gneiss with thick seams of red rock. The red rock was later to be described as kulaite, a geological rarity.
Surrounded by the cliffs and beech forest you find one farmer at Kullagård, with its wonderful view over and sea towards Torekov and the Bjäre peninsula.
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