Egtved brings together the story of the Egtved Girl, museums, a landscape sculpture and trails through the surrounding area. When planning your visit, you can choose different focal points: the findspot and exhibitions introduce historical themes, while marked trails and a cycling route offer a glimpse of the landscape. The different distances provide a concrete guide when choosing between a walking route and a cycling route.

The Egtved Girl: findspot and history

At the Egtved Girl’s findspot are the reconstructed Egtved Storhøj and a small exhibition house. A copy of the oak coffin in which the Egtved Girl was buried is on display there. Egtvedpigens Verden is a modern museum 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 significant stop along the Hærvejen. Together, the actual findspot, the reconstruction of the burial mound and the museum offer different ways to explore this historical subject.

Exhibitions at Egtved Museum

Egtved Museum is a local history museum with objects from different periods, spanning from the Stone Age to the 20th century. One exhibition covers historical periods from the Stone Age to the years 1960–1980. Another focuses on the history of fish farming along the Egtved Å and the streams that flow into the river. Alongside the broad time span, specific aspects of local history are also highlighted. Exhibitions may change; check which topics are currently on display before your visit.

Art in the landscape

Near Egtved, at Tørskind, a landscape sculpture by Robert Jacobsen and Jean Clareboudt is located in a former gravel pit. Nine individual sculptures form a unified whole. The work thus brings several separate forms together in a coherent composition. It complements the historical museums with an artistic perspective on the landscape and offers a different focus from the exhibitions about the Egtved Girl or local history.

Walking and cycling routes

The marked “Sporene i og ved Egtved” trails pass through fields near Egtved, past small lakes and through green spaces, as well as along old routes. “Sporene omkring Egtved” is a blue route measuring 12.4 kilometres. For a different way to get around, there is the 60-kilometre “Egtvedpigen” cycling route: it starts and ends in Egtved and passes, among other places, by the Egtved Girl’s grave.

The two routes can be distinguished by their stated lengths and modes of transport: the 12.4-kilometre blue route contrasts with a 60-kilometre cycling route. If you choose a route, you can use these details as a guide to the planned distance; no walking or cycling time is specified. The cycling route explicitly passes the Egtved Girl’s grave, while the marked trails near Egtved lead through the landscapes and along the old routes described above. You can therefore plan your stay around local history, art in the landscape, or walking and cycling routes.

Discover more destinations: Frydenborg, Vojens, Bjert Strand, Hejlsminde, Christiansfeld, Grønninghoved Strand, Vamdrup, Jordrup Sogn

For the overview of the wider area: Kolding Municipality.