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Chiselled in granite, Dalgas looks out from his mound over the heath landscape, which he made his life’s work to plant with trees. Without him, the area around Hovborg would not have had the large pla...
In front of Vejen Art Museum is a major fountain with a sculpture called "En Trold, der vejrer Kristenkød”(A troll who senses the flesh of a Christian). The sculpture is from 1896, when Niels Hansen J...
In the small forest just west of Vejen Sports Centre at Askov there is a small cemetery with a memorial to two freedom fighters from WWII.The story On 16 April 1944, during German occupation, an act...
In front of Vejen Station is the sculpture of Ingrid Vang Nyman. There is a bronze portrait on a granite plinth on which there is an illustration of Pippi Longstocking.Everyone knows the author Astr...
Kanonstillingen i Dover is a relic from World War II and, at the same time, it offers a scenic view of Kongeådalen (valley) and a small nature path.HistoryIn 1944, the German occupying power built a ...
Niels Hansen Jacobsen's sculpture “Militarismen” (Militarism) is featured on the central square in Vejen.The sculpture offers an interpretation of the horrors and inhumanity of war in the form of a b...
At a local initiative there are set up a memorial Stone of the English bomber,which was shot down by the Germans in Second World-War.The stone was set up May 5th 1947.The Shooting down happened on the...
The anti-tank trench in Lintrup is a reconstruction showing how the approx. 255 km long Gudrunstilling (fortification system) from World War II looked. Next to the anti-tank trench, you find a magnifi...
Sundbøl Plantage eller Skodborg Kommuneplantage blev ryddet under Anden Verdenskrig, da tyskerne skulle bruge tømmer til at afstive deres store pansergrav. Gudrun-stillingen, som pansergraven blev kal...
Skodborghus was once a castle located by a low-lying riverbank in the valley of Kongeådalen. It was an important border fortress in the Middle Ages, and in the 1500s it was used as a tax collection po...