Communications in the area


The only railways in 1864 in Denmark north of the Kongeå were a set in Sjælland from Copenhagen to Korsør, and one in northern Jutland from Århus to the northwest. any reinforcements for the Danevirke from Copenhagen would form gone by rail to Korsør and thence by ship to Flensburg, taking two or three days, if non hindered by storm or sea-ice. There was a advantage railway system in the duchies, but not further north than Flensburg and Husum.