Prehistoric monuments
Find your way to Vejle River Valley and Fjords many prehistoric monuments
The city of Vejle was founded where Vejle River and Grejs River meet in Vejle Fjord. Vejle River Valley has been populated since the end of the last ice age. Vejle River made the creek valley a very attractive place. Some of the first inhabitants were stone age- hunters. 9000 years ago they were hunting and fishing in the fertile creek valley. Since then Vejle River and the surrounding area has attracted everybody from the bronze age-girl Egtvedpigen to the vikings, who build the 750 meter long Ravningebro over Vejle River. Today the creek valley boasts one of the largest concentrations of bronze age-tombs in Denmark.
Troldborg Ring (Bronze Age fortress)
Troldborg Ring is a circular Iron Age fortress which is located on a hill prominence, raised 70 meters above valley of Vejle Ådal, and with a very steep fall down towards the ford over the river valle...
The Jelling Monuments (UNESCO)
In the tenth century, King Harald Bluetooth had Denmark's name engraved on a runestone in Jelling and erected two large mounds. The Jelling monuments have been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since ...
Trindvold/Trindhøj (Viking Age fortress)
The fortress Trindvold, also called Trindhøj, are the remains of an old Viking Age fortress at Brejning, which together with other fortresses from the Middle Ages, could protect against enemy attacks ...
Munkenes Teglovn (The Blackfriar Kiln)
The Foundation of Vejle's Medieval History. Here, in the 13th century, the Blackfriar monks of Vejle produced bricks. Perhaps it was also here that the stones for Sct. Nicolai Church were made, alread...
Firehøje and Kong Rans Høj (barrows)
Firehøje is located a short distance north of Randbøl Church along Hærvejen south of Gødding Skov, and the four burial mounds from the Bronze Age are located in way that you can easily spot them. From...
The Barrows by Skærup
From the motorway rest area Skærup Øst, a staircase leads up to a 3400-year-old Bronze Age burial mound, The Barrows by Skærup. The barrow was found in 1992 near the village of Tårup during the constr...
Store Rygbjergstenen (rune stone)
Experience "Store Rygbjergstenen", a rune stone from the 10th century, which stands on a small burial mound at Frederikshåb near Egtved. The rune stone is called Denmark's first love poem.
The Grave of the Egtved Girl
Feel the breeze of history, right where the Egtved Girl was buried in the iconic Bronze Age burial mound. One of Europe's finest Bronze Age discoveries was made in Egtved, outside Vejle. Here, a young...
