Vejle

Description

NV Cruising Guide

Navigation

The approach to the fired harbour is unproblematic day and night. It is approached via a 2,5sm long and 7m deep buoyed and lighted dredging channel. A motorway bridge with a clearance of 40m crosses the Vejlefjord 0.7sm in front of the harbour.

Berths

The guest berths in the modern marina just inbound to starboard (2.5 - 3m). Yachts with more draught can be moored in the inner part of the commercial harbour with the permission of the harbour authority.

Surroundings

All utilities are available. The city center is 15min walk from the marina.

NV Land Guide

In the immediate vicinity of the marina there is much modern architecture to marvel at. The area around the winter storage areas, which was still dreary a few years ago, has now been developed with apartments and offices, divided by a canal and thus transformed into a lively harbour quarter. The highlight is certainly the striking, visionary Fjordenhus directly southwest of the marina, designed by Copenhagen artist Ólafur Elíasson. Built in the style of a futuristic moated castle, it houses the headquarters of an investment company. The ground floor is open to the public and thus offers visitors interesting perspectives of the harbor as well as the opportunity to marvel at the work of art up close. The extension of the wave-shaped Bølgen skyscrapers north of the marina almost takes a back seat in comparison.

Because the city of around 50,000 inhabitants was hit particularly hard by all the wars and crises of the Middle Ages, it lacks a cosy old town centre today. The city was destroyed twice in the 17th century, first in the 30 Years' War and then in the Swedish War of 1659. At the same time, the plague ravaged large parts of the population. Only for a short time until the end of the 18th century Vejle was granted calmer times, then a fire laid large parts of the city in rubble and ashes. The resigning people began to migrate to other cities. It was not until the harbour was built around 1825 that things started to look up again. Although the cityscape, which has also been shaped by industry, no longer gives any hint of the city's age, exhibits in Vejle's museum prove that the fjord shore was already populated in the Stone Age. In addition to archaeological finds, the museum in the Flegborg18, shows changing cultural-historical exhibitions as well as the historical archives of Vejle. In front of the museum are busts of VejIe poet Anton Bernsten and archaeologist Worsaae, as well as the city's two oldest street lamps.

The town hall, which is well worth seeing, was built in 1878 in the Gothic style on the site where a Dominican monastery stood in the Middle Ages. The town hall bell, which rings out to strike the hour, still dates from the old monastery. Trade, crafts, industry and agriculture are symbolised by the four figures in front of the town hall.

The Vejle Art Museum at Flegborg 16 is recommended to sports boaters with an artistic interest. It offers a permanent collection of paintings, sculptures and graphic art, as well as changing exhibitions of contemporary art.

The oldest building in the town is St Nicholas Church, whose late medieval style has been preserved, although it has been damaged and rebuilt several times. Under glass coffin lids also lies Queen Gunhilde here, or rather the remains of the monarch, who was known in her lifetime for her beauty and her cruelty to her subjects. The bog preserved the body, which is over 1500 years old. Evidence suggests the northern wall of the church dates from 1250, and legend has it that 23 skulls of executed buccaneers were walled into this wall.

The white mill by Koldingvej in the south of the town is Vejle's landmark.First built in 1847, it was rebuilt after a fire and is open to visitors during the summer months. An exhibition in the mill provides information about the history of water and windmills in Vejle County.

Den Smidtske Gård is the name of the restored merchant's yard at Søndergade 14. Inside the building, visitors are informed about the history of the town. The tourist office is also based here.

A worthwhile destination in the Vejle area is Grejstal in the north of Vejle. At a distance of about seven kilometres, the idyllic landscape begins. Near the mill in the valley is a rare natural phenomenon: vertical rocks that have formed over many years - similar to stalactites - from spring water limestone.

The museum train runs from Vejle station through the beautiful Grejstal valley to Jelling and back. The timetable is available at the tourist office.

The yew tree, an ancient Nordic tree, grows at the Munkeberg viewpoint. The popular excursion spot 93 metres above sea level is five kilometres from the town on the south side of the fjord. Views across the fjord can be enjoyed from a hotel reached by winding paths from the shore of Vejle Fjord.

On the northern edge of town is Nørreskov, an animal park with free-ranging game. Steep paths here lead to the viewpoints Ørnebjerg and Gyllingshøj.

From the upper reaches of the Vejle stream valley, you enter the Randbøl valley to a series of burial mounds, the Randbølheide nature reserve and the old army road with the Store Rygebjerg rune stone. The Army Road was a trade route and the lifeblood of Jutland in the Middle Ages, and played a role as a main traffic artery from Viborg to Schleswig in the early Viking Age. And as the name suggests, the Danish kings marched along this road with their armies to meet their enemies. Pieces of the old army road are preserved at Øster Nykirke and Tignet Krat.

Probably the most massive bridge structure of the Viking Age was discovered a few years ago 15 kilometres west of Vejle near Ravning. The five-metre-wide bridge spanned the marshy VejIe valley on several thousand wooden posts. However, almost nothing remains of the wooden bridge built around the year 1000. But the reconstruction of individual arches of the old bridge is planned.

Whoever is interested in the Vikings should not miss a visit to Jelling (northwest of Vejle) at the graves of Gorm the Old and his wife Thyra. The latter's son Harald Blauzahn had a rune stone erected to his father, which conveys four important messages for posterity: The memory of King Gorm and Thyra, Denmark's unification, the conquest of Norway and the Christianisation of the Danes (see also Brejning).

For the sake of completeness, a destination that will delight children is Legoland in Billund. A traffic school, theatres, puppet collections, a doll's house and much more has been created for the little visitors. Every hour, a bus leaves from the stop at Vejle train station to the artfully designed city of Lego bricks, which opens its doors from 1 May and closes again in mid-September.

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