Topographical numbers

In folklore science, care has been taken to uphold the collected material. During registration, the material has been given a number showing where in the country it comes from. The topography number often refers to a parish or a market town, but also parts of the country, the old counties (before 1970), districts and individual population groups have topography numbers.

How to search topographically

You can find the topography number of the area you are interested in by using the list below.

Go to the library system. Click "Advanced Search" to the right of the search box. Select "Subject" (instead of "All fields") and enter the topography number as a keyword, for example "0818", if you want to find all material concerning Nørre Vedby, or "0810" to find material from Falster Nørre Herred in general.

You can also use a so-called truncated search, where you replace the last or last numbers with *. A search for "081 *" will thus find all catalogued material with topographical numbers beginning with 081, ie. material both from the whole of Falster Nørre Herred and from its individual parishes.

Note: The topic search may find some irrelevant material. It may therefore be necessary to limit the search results to Special collections -> Danish Folklore Archives using the filters to the left of the results list.

Other material, especially older material, may be arranged topographically in a number of boxes. Here you can not be sure to find the material by searching for the individual topography numbers. Instead, find the box that contains the relevant numbers. It often appears from the description in the library system which box you should order. An example is the folklore collection's topographically ordered collection of legends, etc. collected between 1906 and 1959 (signature DFS 1906/023). For example, if you are interested in legends and stories from Falster Nørre Herred, you can look through the list of boxes (capsules) and order the one that contains the numbers 0807 to 0844.

This is how the topographical list is set up

Below you will find the topographic list, which consists of four columns.

The first column contains the place names in alphabetical order. The second column shows the type of area in question: region, county, muncipality, landscape, market town, parish or population group. In the third column is the corresponding topographical number, and in the column on the far right you will find information about the county. The counties refer to the smaller counties that were in force before the local government reform in 1970. Counties and districts can often be identified by the fact that their number ends in 0.