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Svendborg Walking and making stops on the trail Funen’s second largest town is idyllically situated on the narrow The Archipelago Trail is for walkers and is signposted all the way. Svendborg Sound. Some 30,000 people live in the market town We ask you to show consideration when out walking and to res - which dates back to 1229 when the town’s protector, King pect the following: Valdemar the Victorious, gave Svendborg to his sister-in-law as a morning gift. • The trail is open to walkers from 6 a.m. until sunset. The name Svendborg derives from Swineburgh, which alludes to • Dogs must be kept on a leash. pigs and castle. The pigs may refer to porpoises, or pig fish, swim - • The route crosses private land. Please show consi - ming in herds on their way to and from the Baltic Sea through deration to the owners, be thoughtful, and do not Svendborg Sound. leave litter. North of the town was Ørkild castle that belonged to the Bishop • Camping is only permitted at designated campsites, The Archipelago Trail of Odense. During the 19th century, Svendborg became known as or other areas with the owner’s permission. a maritime town. The A. P. Møller shipping company, to name but • During hunts the trail may be closed, but informa - Fjællebroen - Egebjerg Bakker - Svendborg one, has its origins in the town. Over half of Denmark’s wooden tion about alternative routes will be displayed. ship tonnage was launched from countless small shipyards dotted 30 km along the protective banks of Svendborg Sound. Today the town’s Coffee sites lifeblood is the training of sailors and shipping. The attractive Along the Archipelago Trail there are 10 coffee sites where hikers commercial town with its maritime atmosphere is a popular tou - can enjoy their meals or coffee. The coffee sites are beautifullly rist destination. In Svendborg you can also experience Naturama, situated and offer information about the surrounding area and which has an exhibition with modern natural history. activity inspiration for children. The coffee sites are marked on the map, but there are also several other rest sites along the trail. The South Funen Archipelago The Archipelago to the south of Funen is a vast, flooded landsca - Archipelago Trail Guidebook pe formed during the Ice Age. Only the very highest hills poke out The guidebook provides you with detailed descriptions of the above the water to form the 55 islands and islets scattered about routes, a presentation of the nature- and cultural values of the in the sea. Ice covered the area 17,000 years ago. It came in from South Funen Archipelago, and more information about accomo - the southeast, which is why many of the islands are shaped in a dation and shopping. The guidebook is in Danish, German and southeast–northwest direction. The Archipelago has been nomi - English and is available at the local tourist offices. nated as a Danish national park due to its valuable landscapes of Map 2 low-lying land and sea areas that are home to many plants and Transport animals, especially shore birds. You can get around Sydfyn and Tåsinge by Fynbus. See timetables at www. fynbus.dk or obtain further information from Fynbus on tel. +45 6311 2233.

Accommodation For information on accommodation options please contact Sydfyns Tourist Office on tel. +45 6221 0980. You can also visit our website at www.visitsydfyn.dk or www.detsydfynskeoehav.dk.

Would you like more information? Sydfyn Turistbureau, www. visitsydfyn.dk, tel. +45 6223 5700 The South Funen Archipelago – for information about accommodation near the trail.

Colophon Svendborg Museum, www. svendborgmuseum, Published by: Svendborg Kommune, Miljø og Teknik, July 2011 tel. +45 6221 0261 – for information about the history of Editorial / text: Naturturisme I/S, Erik Møller Nielsen og Naturbureauet Svendborg and surroundings. Photographs: Erik Møller Nielsen, D3-Profoto, Hans Erik Hjorth-Hansen, Cees van Roeden, Preben Eider Further information about The South of Funen Archipelago can – Days clothed in blue and green Basis of maps: Kort- & Matrikelstyrelsen – copyright be found at www. detsydfynskeoehav.dk Layou t/ print: tryk team svendborg a/s 7 They lost their lives in battle 10 An eel in the landscape To the north of Hvidkilde Manor the landscape is formed by On your way you will pass Egense Ridge. The winding hill is immense hills up towards Løvehaveskoven Forest. Many well- reminiscent of an eel in the open, flat terrain. A ridge is deposi - built homes for the estate workers, typical of that era, are scatte - ted by a subglacial stream and the large quantity of soil and clay red around the vast manor landscape. The trail passes a monu - in the water leaves behind an oblong, twisted hill when the ice ment in Løve haveskoven for Count Lennart who was one of the melts. leaders of the Funen resistance movement during the Second World War and that ultima - 11 A village razed to the ground tely cost him his life in The trail reaches the coast of Svendborg Sound at Lilleng. The 1945. Just north of Hvid - small village of Kogtved once stood here, but the last two remai - kilde’s barn is a stone by the ning thatched half-timbered farmsteads were demolished in 1993 The Svendborg Sound Bridge roadside. It commemorates to make way for a modern housing development. Only a small another Dane who lost his idyllic watermill was left standing near the coast. 14 Svendborg’s harbours life during the German The oldest part of Svendborg Harbour is situated at the end of Brogade occupation of Den mark. He 12 St Jørgen’s Church – a chapel for lepers (Quay Street, or “street leading to the quay”). Next to the yellow sto - was shot by the Germans The previous church on this site was a wooden chapel for lepers rehouse is a wooden jetty reserved for old, wooden ships of historic

during an air drop of illegal lodged at St Jørgensgårde out side the town’s ramparts as lepers interest. Through Maritimt Center Danmark more of these wooden Monument for Count Lennart weapons by the Allies. were not welcome in the town. They were taken care of out here ships offer cruises in the archipelago. The 250-year-old merchant by volunteers from a religious fraternity. The lepers lived on shipping company, Baagøe og Riber, is also based here. 8 Hvidkilde – a manor and an entire region alms and farming the land on a farm donated by Valdemar The estate is the third largest in Funen. It covers 21 km 2 of Funen Atterdag. The farmstead was called Bydegård, which gives its 15 Christiansminde summer area soil including 24 forests. The beautiful three wings main building name to the road leading to the be a utiful church which is worth The point where the trail meets the water at Svendborg’s North in mansion style dates back to 1742 where the side wings was a visit. Harbour is where Øxenbjerg Shipyard was once located. Seventy- added til main building. The huge farm buildings wttness the seven wooden ships, some of Denmark’s largest, were launched prime of the mansion. here between 1833 and 1920. Many other smaller shipyards were once located along the banks of Svendborg Sound. The forest on 9 Hvidkilde Lake – a paradise for birdlife the slope along the shore was planted 200 years ago by Niels Juel The lake at Hvidkilde is the largest and most beautiful of a num - of Valdemar Castle and has since been taken over by Svendborg ber of lakes situated in the valley to the west of Svendborg. The Municipality. Christiansminde is the town’s summer destination. 66-hectare lake contains the wooded islands of Storeholm, There is a popular beach here. Kirsebærholm and Lilleholm. On the estate is the little Rønninge watermill, situated on the fringe of the Amalielyst forest. When 16 The ancient burial site in the forest clearing grain was delivered, or flour collected, a boat would sail in under To the north of the former training centre is an unusual landscape the mill. The lake attracts a large number of birds. In the summer brimming with ancient monuments. There are twenty burial mounds greylag geese, herons and crested grebes, and in the winter tens of which date back to the early Bronze Age (1800–1000 BC). Some thousands of tufted ducks and pochards. From here the trail con - have not survived, but a 4,000-year-old stone burial chamber still tinues southwards towards the coast, where you follow the old stands between two of the larger burial mounds. Back in ancient bridleway on the first, long straight stretch. times the landscape was open, and the burial mounds could have been seen for miles around. Svendborg Kommune has published a

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