Ebeltoft/Skudehavn

Marina

Last edited 12.03.2024 at 11:46 by NV Charts Team

Latitude

56° 11’ 29.1” N

Longitude

10° 40’ 3.8” E

Description

Small and picturesque town with a commercial and museum harbour and a modern marina.

NV Cruising Guide

Navigation

The approach to the lighted harbours of Ebeltoft is also possible at night. However, it requires great navigational care because of the many unmarked shoals. From the green fairway buoy (WP 666), northwest of the Sandhagen shoal, steer 104° towards the leading light of the fishing harbour (UF difficult to see) until you have passed the unlit green spar buoy northeast of the shoal and then head directly for the entrance to the marina (Fl.R.3s) (attention: set nets at the northern edge of the "Sandhagen" shoal).

Berths

 In the marina "Ebeltoft Skudehavn" south of the harbour with 3 m water depth.

Surroundings

In addition to the good service of the marina Ebeltoft Skudehavn with shipyard, yacht outfitter and bunker, also the lively town offers best supply possibilities. The small fishing harbour is unsuitable for recreational boating.

NV Land Guide

The cattle herders drive their sheep and cows through the Nygade back into town, the women from the dyers' yard go to their cottages, call for their children and close the doors and windows. The blacksmiths, the job-makers and the coopers send their apprentices and journeymen home, and the malt factory closes its doors. The mayor finishes his work, has the dark prison cell in the town hall cellar checked once more and has his team brought forward. At the same time, the town watchman prepares for his evening rounds, checks his tran lamp and lights the street lights. Later, in the darkness, he shoulders the morning star, the fearsome club with the spiked head. In a loud voice, he makes it clear to the citizens that night rest is now in order. "Would you men, girls or boys know what time it is: it is time to go to bed," he sings in a sonorous voice as the lights go out in the houses.

This is how the day was concluded in Ebeltoft's late Middle Ages - scenes you can still imagine today as you stroll past the old, low half-timbered houses in the hump-backed lanes here. Crooked walls, old street lamps, roses, historic merchants' houses with the typical small mullioned windows, the supposedly smallest town hall in the world and the wooden frigate "Jylland" form the still almost intact backdrop to life in days gone by. And so that this thought does not remain a fleeting one, the town guards walk through Ebeltoft again today. In 1966 the guards guild was newly founded, although the last "real" guard sang the citizens to sleep about 85 years ago. He was paid by the citizens and collected tips when he looked after the well-heeled revellers. Today, the guards are mostly students paid by the tourist trade. The spectacle obviously pays off for tourist businesses, especially during the peak holiday season.

Ebeltoft Vig (Bay) was already important to the Vikings. This is indicated by found remains of Viking ships and dwellings. However, development really took off after Ebeltoft was granted town rights in 1301 and served the crown as a port of disembarkation for agricultural products. Salt was the main export. It was made from a green, salty seaweed that no longer exists in the bay today, but used to be found in abundance. The seaweed occurred in such quantities that ramparts were even built of it in the lower city to protect against flooding. Salt was obtained by burning the seaweed. The ashes were used to make a brine, which was then boiled in oversized pans. The large quantities of firewood needed for salt production were supplied by the extensive forests on Djursland and the Hasnæs peninsula.

Although Ebeltoft Vig was a welcome port of refuge along the sea trade route on the coast of Jutland, the place was too hidden and too far from the important trade routes to develop as quickly as the settlements directly on the shipping routes. Ebeltoft was therefore not a significant trading town when war broke out between Denmark and Sweden in 1658. Almost all of the town's ships were destroyed in the sea battle against the Swedes in Ebeltoft Bay, although a Dutch fleet supported the Danes. The Swedes came ashore and exploited the population. The rebuilding after the Danish-Swedish war brought renewed prosperity to the town. The king had the forests around Ebeltoft cut down, he needed the wood for the royal castles. Again all ships were lost in the Great Nordic War (1700-1720). An economic slump followed, which lasted until 1800 and from which the town recovered only gradually. In 1806, the town bailiff Fellumb painted a bleak picture of the community of 598 inhabitants in his report to the government in Copenhagen. 24 poor people including their children had to be provided for by the public. Trade was insignificant, most craftsmen were "bunglers" and agriculture was doing badly because of the sandy soil. But at least the midwife, who was also poor, was efficient, the prisons in the town hall were in order and the fire brigade was effective. An inn was not needed because there were no guests; a pharmacist, on the other hand, who was urgently needed, would not be able to make a living. And street lighting could not be afforded anyway with a town debt of 150 riksdaler. According to Fellumb's report, for reasons of economy, the town watchman is both prison guard and chimney sweep. According to the sad account, not even shipping brings in enough, because the old ship's bridge has been washed away and there is no money for a new one.

Only the beach bailiff Stockfleth, hired in 1821, provides for a modest economic upswing again with an unlawful act. Without asking the authorities, he takes a loan from the church treasury and has a new harbour built. The beach bailiff is dismissed, but shipping picks up again. Later, travellers discover the special atmosphere of the secluded place and the beginnings of tourism bring money into the town's coffers. The Odden-Ebeltoft ferry service makes the town famous. More and more summer guests come.

Among the many sights reminiscent of days gone by, the frigate "Jylland" is probably the most impressive. The last fully rigged oak ship in the Danish fleet can be seen in dry dock on an artificial peninsula on the Strandweg. It was launched on 20 November 1860 at the Nyholm naval dockyard in Copenhagen. But it was not until 1862 that the "Jylland" made her maiden voyage as a cadet ship under the command of Corvette Captain Eduard Suenson. Before that, the masts of the warship had to be set, the engines and the artillery installed.

The special thing about the steam frigate was that she developed considerable speed both under sail and under engine. 1300 horsepower enabled her to travel at 12 knots, and with sails set, 15 knots were achieved. Under sail alone, the "Jylland" could manoeuvre as well as any pure sailing ship, because a unique technical solution hoisted the drive propeller out of the water.

In a vertical position, the two-bladed propeller could be uncoupled from the drive axle and lifted up through an elevator shaft. This meant that speed was not slowed and steering was not hindered.

Rigate Captain R. Steen Steensen, in his book "The Frigate Jylland," published in 1965, writes: "After a steam-powered voyage, usually with sails set, through the Kattegat and North Sea, the English Channel, and on southward across the Atlantic Ocean, the trade wind was finally caught, and now, in order to save coal, the voyage could be continued exclusively by sail. Hoisting the screw was everyman's work, and, after the fire under the boilers was extinguished, was done by means of pulleys. The screw was hoisted to the accompaniment of music and stamping of feet. When the frigate reached the West Indies after 40 days in the trade wind, the screw was returned to its place ..... When the screw was up, the upper half of the funnel was sunk into the lower half and covered over - thus the frigate was a true sailing ship ". After the war against Prussia and Austria had broken out on February 1, 1864, and both sides had expanded their war fleets, the naval battle of the three Danish frigates "Jylland", "Niels Juel" and "Hejmdal" against an equal Prussian-Austrian squadron took place on May 9 near Helgoland. After three hours of fighting the Austrians, who had been badly hit, had to turn away and save themselves on the neutral territory of Helgoland. The Austrian frigate "Schwarzenberg" was hit 80 times, while 18 cannonballs hit the frigate "Jylland". On the Austrian side 33, on the Danish side 14 sailors fell. The Danes celebrated the outcome of the battle as a superior tactical victory, but one that - due to the military superiority of the Prussians ashore - made little difference politically.

Numerous historic buildings form the appealing backdrop on the city tour. The Jørgen Faaborgs farm (Adelgade 25), for example, is over 230 years old, and the Sigvald Rasmussens farm across the street (No.28) already counts 280 lenze. The latter has a charming arcade behind its old gate, which serves as a café garden in summer. The oldest country dye works in the north was once located in the 300-year-old "Gamle Farvergaard", which together with the town hall is now part of the town's museum association. Ebeltoft's museum departments include the Post Barn, the Siamese Collection, the Crafts Museum and the Archaeological Collection. Probably the most curious exhibition is offered by the "Missers Doll Museum", a small private museum with wax dolls, old prams, doll's houses and all kinds of toys from different eras. It is located in the old vicarage on the corner of Kirkegade and Grønningen.

The Glass Museum at Strandvej 8 offers a classic and modern view of glass art and is characterised by the constant change of exhibitions. Between 700 and 800 works are on display at any one time. During the summer months, the interesting craft of glass blowing is demonstrated in the glassworks and commissions are carried out. The visitor witnesses the tricks with which the glass takes on certain shapes and colours. Nedergade 19-21 and Adelgade 62 F are also all about glass.

Ebeltoft seems to act like a magnet for artisans and artists. Numerous small galleries and studios line the streets of this picturesque little town. Ebeltoft's potteries are said to number 15.

Like Ærøskøbing on Ærø, Ebeltoft is nicknamed the fairytale town. In fact, hutzelige half-timbered houses, idyllic courtyards, crooked walls, rosebushes, narrow streets and cobblestone streets provide a similar atmosphere, which is only slightly marred by the very strong tourist flow in the high season. Then it is enough to have a short look at the most popular postcard motive, the allegedly smallest city hall of Denmark, and to rather stay longer in the cafés, restaurants and galleries of the side streets. However, if you get out of bed in time on Saturday morning, you can watch the wedding hustle and bustle that takes place every Saturday around the mini town hall. Many young couples consider the small town hall an ideal, romantic backdrop for their vows. More romantic during the peak holiday season, however, are the villages nestled in the rolling hills surrounding Ebeltoft, which are best explored by bicycle. Hyllested is one of these small, dreamy communities with old farms and half-timbered houses, narrow streets and a castle with two towers. The former lord of the castle, Ahrenfeldt, a cruel witch hunter, called one castle tower "Lübeck" and the other "Hamburg". If creditors knocked on the castle portal, his servants could say with a clear conscience that the lord was in Lübeck - or in Hamburg. A winding country road winds along Skærsø Plantage to the village ten kilometres northeast of Ebeltoft. Halfway to Hyllested, Lake Stubbe makes an ideal resting place.

With its forests, ponds, lakes and Skramsø Mill by the Øksemølle stream, Skramsø Plantage, which is criss-crossed by narrow paths and tracks, is well worth a trip. This is even more true of Mols Bjerge (see Knebel Vig), whose elevations of up to 140 metres can almost be described as mountainous by Danish standards. On the way there, you will pass the extensive beaches to the northwest of Ebeltoft, Lyngsbæk-, Handrup- and Egsmarkstrand. A large holiday home area stretches along the beaches.

Immediately southwest of the marina is also a wooded holiday home area, which is recommended as a nice walking route to Ebeltoft's famous windmill park. The 17 large windmills at the ferry harbour provide electricity for almost 600 households. Inaugurated in 1985, the wind farm was the first of its kind in the world and served as a pilot project for other turbines in Denmark, where more and more people are turning to wind power. The location of the Ebeltoft wind farm was influenced by the fact that the most common wind directions in Denmark are west and south-west winds. The water surface meant free wind space in these directions - and the success proves the operators right. The investment of 21 million kroner (the state contributed 9.5 million) has paid off. Whether, on the other hand, the south-eastern maritime holiday centre Øer will also pay for itself is something the pleasure boater will ask himself when he is asked to pay by the harbour master (see Øer).

The harbour fees have one thing in common with the Klintholm fees: they are deterringly high. In the less fashionable Ebeltoft marina, the pleasure boater doesn't have to dig nearly as deep into his pocket and moors in a harbour with handsome, red-painted wooden terraced cottages. A shop, a restaurant and a yacht outfitter are located right next to the berths.

Marina Information

Max Depth 3 m

Contact

Phone +45 4016 7554
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Website https://www.skudehavn.dk

Surroundings

Electricity

Water

Toilet

Shower

Restaurant

Imbiss

Crane

Atm

Internet

Diesel

Grocery

Boatyard

Ramp

Public Transport

Bikerental

Garbage

Sewage

Comments

Brigitte Lindenzweig, Sarema
21.06.2023 20:58
Bruno Geingo, Laurina
24.08.2021 05:26

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