DENMARK - Naestved / Holmegaard

The first of January 2007 Holmegaard Municipality has merged together with 3 other smaller municipalities and the town of naestved into the new Naestved Municipality. Naestved have now a surface of 684 quare kilometers and January 2009 80.950 inhabitants. Half of the population lives in town and the other half in the countryside.

The town of Naestved is a powerhouse within the municipality, because the municipality’s attractiveness as a place to settle is based on the strong sense of cohisivenes between where you live and opportunities there are nearby. And living in Naestved municipality you are

·         near to the town, villages and the countryside

·         near to light and fresh air, forests and beaches

·         near to clean environment and rich nature

·         near to the bridge to Sweden, the Great belt and the Continent.

As the population keeps growing, the municipality’s diverse range of services continues to expand. Parents can choose between various finds of kindercare, which all exploit the opportunities offered by the surrounding countryside. Naestved have 25 primary and lower secondary schools, and all pupils are offered “ourdoor” programmes that provide them with a basic knowledge of natural science and the environment through hands-on experience, which also help to encourage the children to establish healthy outdoor pastimes.

Staying in Naestved you are very close to the sea, lakes and rivers. You can take a trip to Karrebæksminde and splash about in the waves at one of the best beaches in Denmark. Feel the past beneath you feet while walking across the bog at Holmegaard Moor or paddling a canoe through some of Denmark’s most beautifull scenery.

The Holmegaard Moor is a protected high bog which is the only one of the size on Zealand. The bog covers an area of 420 hectares, with birch woods and small plantations of spruce. Two small areas near the western part of the bog have never been drained, and show how it would have looked thousands of years ago.

At the edge of the moor the Holmegaard Glasfactory was founded in 1825, and at that time the peat was the primarily source of energy. Today the factory produces all the bottles for beer from Carlsberg and Tuborg.

Holme-Olstrup is famous as Father Christmas’s home town, the most Christmassy corner of all Denmark. Every year in Holme-Olstrup, Denmark’s smallest granite statue of Lunte, a character from a famous Christmas show, is decked out with a pixie hat en the last Sunday in November.

Holme-Olstrup has also an amusement park: Bon-Bon-Land. The park offers more than 70 different types of amusements. With its surface of 110.000 square meters, Bon-Bon-Land is lager than the famous Tivolipark in Copenhagen.

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Photo album Naestved-Holmegaard