Drastrup (Essenbæk Parish)

In the present Drastrup remains have been found of a round barrow from antiquity.^[3]

In medieval place names the last particle -trup means ”secondary settlement”.^[4] Drastrup is known from September 16, 1465,^[5] when its peasants were tenant farmers of Essenbæk Abbey.^[6]

After the Reformation, the king confiscated Essenbæk Abbey and its estate in 1540,^[7] and when Drastrup was acquired on August 22, 1661, from the king by Hans Friis, there were six farms in the village.^[8] Its location on moraine hills shows that agriculture was prioritized there, but cattle were probably kept on the meadows below the village.^[2]

On March 18, 1695, Hans Friis gave^[9] Essenbæk Home Farm (Essenbæk Ladegård), including adjoining estates, to his nephew Christian Friis,^[10] who on February 15, 1726, incorporated them into the entailed estate of Tustrup.^[11] On October 30, 1782, the king gave permission for the sale of the estate, and Essenbæk Home Farm was sold at auction at Tustrup on December 18, 1783, to Christian Kallager; the deed was signed on June 11, 1785.^[12]

However, as early as June 10,^[13] 1787, he sold it to Peter Severin Fønss and Johan Frederik Carøe.^[14] In that year there were in Drastrup six farms, a smallholding and two houses,^[15] in which resided 87 people.^[16] Before the end of the following year the village was sold to the tenant farmers there,^[17] who subdivided it among themselves.^[18]

A newly built school was opened in Drastrup March 1, 1859,^[20] and Drastrup Co-operative Society (Drastrup Brugsforening) was established in 1900.^[21]

In the village the Virring-Essenbæk Municipality and the Årslev-Hørning Municipality opened September 1, 1959, the Sønderhald hundred Central School (Sønderhald herreds Forbundsskole),^[22] also called the Sønderhald School (Sønderhaldskolen),^[23] and February 1, 1960, the previous school there was closed as such.^[22] Drastrup Co-operative Society was abolished in 1965,^[24] but in 1968 a sports ground and a clubhouse were constructed at the Sønderhald School.^[23]

From February 28, 1973,^[25] the Sønderhald Municipality decided to expand the residential area of Assentoft East (Assentoft Øst) with inter alia parts of Drastrup, including the Sønderhald School,^[25] so that the village is becoming surrounded by Assentoft.^[26] However, the village environment, with several farm structures, is relatively well-preserved.

• Assentofts surrounding of Drastrup
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  Map from 1976
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  Map from 2001
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  Map from 2016

The landscape in and around Drastrup is relatively flat, with few hills.^[27]