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Memorial stone

If you follow the drawing you,ll get a nace lang lovely walk in Neorreskov (forest), which end at the memorial stone for Elvira Madigan and Sixten Sparre placed where they died 1889. THis stone was placed in the early sixties. On the same spot was another stone. Smaller and also without any inscription. After their death which is similar to the Mayerling drama in Austria earlier that year, a form of suicidal epidemi began all around. There where more who shot or killed themselves otherwise, not just in Denmark but also in other countries like England. Whether it was inspired by the Mayerling drama or Elvira and Sixtin (also known as the Tosinge drame) is unclear. See there grave in Landet churchyard.

Read more on Elvira and Sixten here or here.(both in dannish)