The Story of Adolf Tysker
After the plebiscite on the border in 1920, quite a few people on both sides of the border emigrated to the neighbouring country in order to remain either German or Danish. In several places, the course of the border was even subsequently changed because the people on both sides wanted to belong to the other nation. Here, in the immediate vicinity, the following happened:
200 m west of this location, after the 1920 plebiscite, lived a man named Adolf Ewertsen. He was called Adolf Tysker (Adolf the German) because he lived in Lüdersholm (Lydersholm) before the border was moved and did not want to become a Danish citizen. Thus, when Lüdersholm became Danish Lydersholm, he packed his things and moved to the German side. Here, he lived in a hole in the ground with a cow and some sheep, because he had no money to buy a house. He died around 1924 and was laid out at the home of the mayor Johannes Edlefsen at Berbeckshof. His family in Lüdersholm paid for his burial in the Ladelund cemetery in Danish kroner. Descendants of the Ewertsen family still live in Lydersholm today.
200 m west of this location, after the 1920 plebiscite, lived a man named Adolf Ewertsen. He was called Adolf Tysker (Adolf the German) because he lived in Lüdersholm (Lydersholm) before the border was moved and did not want to become a Danish citizen. Thus, when Lüdersholm became Danish Lydersholm, he packed his things and moved to the German side. Here, he lived in a hole in the ground with a cow and some sheep, because he had no money to buy a house. He died around 1924 and was laid out at the home of the mayor Johannes Edlefsen at Berbeckshof. His family in Lüdersholm paid for his burial in the Ladelund cemetery in Danish kroner. Descendants of the Ewertsen family still live in Lydersholm today.