Louisenlund
Louisenlund
Louisenlund is a distinctive cultural-historical site on Bornholm, where a small deciduous woodland contains one of the island’s largest collections of standing stones. Among the trees stand around 50–53 upright stones, some up to 2.5 metres high, scattered across an area that today appears calm and almost random – yet holds traces of a much older past.
The stones were most likely erected during the Bronze Age or Iron Age, but the site has never been archaeologically investigated, and its exact background therefore remains unknown. Many of the stones are believed to be associated with burial grounds or memorials to the dead, as known from other sites on Bornholm and across Scandinavia.
Today the stones stand within woodland, but much suggests that they were originally placed in an open landscape where they would have been visible from a distance. Over time, some have disappeared or been moved, and in certain places it is still possible to sense where more stones once stood.
Louisenlund received its name in the 19th century, when the area was acquired by King Frederick VII and named after his wife, Louise Danner.
Louisenlund is a distinctive cultural-historical site on Bornholm, where a small deciduous woodland contains one of the island’s largest collections of standing stones. Among the trees stand around 50–53 upright stones, some up to 2.5 metres high, scattered across an area that today appears calm and almost random – yet holds traces of a much older past.
The stones were most likely erected during the Bronze Age or Iron Age, but the site has never been archaeologically investigated, and its exact background therefore remains unknown. Many of the stones are believed to be associated with burial grounds or memorials to the dead, as known from other sites on Bornholm and across Scandinavia.
Today the stones stand within woodland, but much suggests that they were originally placed in an open landscape where they would have been visible from a distance. Over time, some have disappeared or been moved, and in certain places it is still possible to sense where more stones once stood.
Louisenlund received its name in the 19th century, when the area was acquired by King Frederick VII and named after his wife, Louise Danner.
Louisenlund is a distinctive cultural-historical site on Bornholm, where a small deciduous woodland contains one of the island’s largest collections of standing stones. Among the trees stand around 50–53 upright stones, some up to 2.5 metres high, scattered across an area that today appears calm and almost random – yet holds traces of a much older past.
The stones were most likely erected during the Bronze Age or Iron Age, but the site has never been archaeologically investigated, and its exact background therefore remains unknown. Many of the stones are believed to be associated with burial grounds or memorials to the dead, as known from other sites on Bornholm and across Scandinavia.
Today the stones stand within woodland, but much suggests that they were originally placed in an open landscape where they would have been visible from a distance. Over time, some have disappeared or been moved, and in certain places it is still possible to sense where more stones once stood.
Louisenlund received its name in the 19th century, when the area was acquired by King Frederick VII and named after his wife, Louise Danner.
