Discover Egtved: cultural history and landscapes

Egtved brings together the story of the Egtved Girl, local history exhibitions, art in the landscape and marked trails. These topics offer different ways to plan a stay: you might be interested in the find site and its museums, explore historical exhibits at Egtved Museum, or focus on trails and distances. When looking for a hotel in Egtved, you can first decide whether cultural history, art or outdoor activities will shape your stay.

The Egtved Girl: find site and museum

At the Egtved Girl’s find site, you’ll find the reconstructed Egtved Storhøj and a small exhibition building. A replica of the oak coffin in which the Egtved Girl was buried is displayed inside. The burial site and the burial context therefore provide tangible links to the history of the find.

Egtvedpigens Verden offers a different perspective: the modern museum is set in the landscape where the Egtved Girl lived and moved about 3,400 years ago. It is located by the reconstructed burial site and is a major place to visit on the Hærvejen. The 3,400-year timeframe connects the landscape with the person; the burial site and replica of the oak coffin refer to the burial and the find site. If you’re interested in this topic, these different perspectives can shape your choice of cultural activities.

Egtved Museum and its exhibitions

Egtved Museum is a local history museum with objects from various periods, from the Stone Age to the 20th century. One exhibition on historical periods spans from the Stone Age to the period 1960–1980. Another exhibition covers the history of fish farming along the Egtved Å and its tributary streams. This brings together a broad range of historical periods and a specific topic related to regional water use: one exhibition puts historical periods in context, while the other focuses on fish farming along the Egtved Å and its tributaries. Exhibitions may change, so check the latest information before visiting.

Art in the landscape near Tørskind

Robert Jacobsen and Jean Clareboudt’s landscape sculpture is located in a former gravel pit near Tørskind, close to Egtved. Nine individual sculptures form a cohesive whole. The work can therefore be viewed as an overall composition, rather than just a collection of individual parts. Unlike the museums, the focus here is art set in a specific landscape. When choosing a focus for your stay, this offers a different cultural connection from the chronological presentation of exhibition objects or the history of fish farming.

Marked trails and cycling route

The marked trails “Sporene i og ved Egtved” lead through fields, small lakes, green spaces and old routes near Egtved. “Sporene omkring Egtved” is a 12.4-kilometre blue route. There is also a 60-kilometre cycling route called “Egtvedpigen”: it starts and ends in Egtved and passes, among other places, the Egtved Girl’s grave. The distances give you different scales to consider when planning; for the 60-kilometre route, the fact that it is a cycling route, starts and ends in Egtved, and passes the grave are also specified. You can therefore consider the marked trails and the longer cycling route as different ways to shape your stay.

Discover more destinations: Grønninghoved Strand, Hejls, Bjert Strand, Almind, Kolding, Jordrup Sogn, Viuf, Sønder Stenderup

For the overview of the wider area: Kolding Municipality.