Already in the Middle Ages from the 13th century Dragør was known to the outside world. There was an international marketplace for the hanseatic storekeepers who came here every year from August to October to trade and buy the herrings that were plentiful at Øresund. There are several stories about this wealth of silvery herring shoals so close and high up in the water that you barely needed tools to fish, you could scoop them up in the boats with your hands. Most of the year it was rather deserted, but at market time from the 25th July to the 9th October it was swarming with life on a scale that you cannot imagine today.
