Editing Vejle (section)

=== Middle ages ===
During the [[Middle Ages]], Vejle was a prominent [[market town]]. It developed slowly, only having small setbacks from the [[Black Death]] during the 14th century. Vejle traditionally traded with cities such as [[Lübeck]], [[Aarhus]] and [[Flensburg]], located in the old duchies of [[Schleswig]] and [[Duchy of Holstein|Holstein]], and other cities on the Baltic coast.

Vejle used to be protected by two castles:

[[Castrum Wæthel]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Borgvold - VejleWiki |url=https://www.vejlewiki.dk/index.php?title=Borgvold |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=www.vejlewiki.dk}}</ref> (Vejleborg) (Vejle castle)

The Vejle castle was constructed out of wood and lay just outside the city, where [[Vejle railway station]] is located today. It was constructed to protect the city and the [[Vejle River]]. The architecture of the castle indicates it was built in the 14th century, but by the year 1473 the castle had most likely been decommissioned. being turned into fields. The last remnants of the castle disappeared through the construction of the railway in the 19th century.

[[Rosborg]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rosborg - VejleWiki |url=https://www.vejlewiki.dk/index.php?title=Rosborg |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=www.vejlewiki.dk}}</ref>

Rosborg was located in the [[marshland]]s of the [[Vejle valley]], located a couple hundred meters west of the city. It sat atop a manmade hill around 1.75 meters high, 40 meters long, and 25 meters wide. There had been multiple buildings in the castle, the oldest of these being seemingly made of wood and possibly burning down; later another was made of stone. During an excavation in 1912, there were found multiple sets of pottery from the [[Rhine]], one with a very distinctive face of a bearded man.