Dr Danchell’s facilities

The facility is a gift from district physician Dr. Danchell to his patients and the city. When the site was built is not known with certainty, but probably around the 1900’s as it was not finished when Dr. Danchell died in 1904, therefore Allinge – Sandvig Municipality took over the site and finished the work. […]

The Dome in Allinge

The Dome in Allinge The dome was built in 2012 in connection with a public meeting on Bornholm. The dome is owned by Boligselskabernes Landsforening ( BL ) and was designed by architects Kristoffer Tejlgaard and Benny Jepsen. For the first few years, the Dome stood by the car park across the road, but as […]

The Russian cemetery in Allinge

When World War II ended, Bornholm was invaded by Russian troops. The reason for their presence was that the German occupying troops in Denmark had to surrender to the British troops, which also happened in the rest of Denmark, just not on Bornholm. Something went wrong in the communication, so the English troops never came […]

Cultivation in Hasle Lystskov

On Bornholm there has also been digging for coal – black coal. In Hasle Lystskov there are clear traces of the old coal mines. The area where some of the coal digging took place is today a beautiful little lake in the forest, the Ruby Lake. Here, deep mine shafts were dug to find coal. […]

Rubinsøen – old coal mine in Hasle Lystskov

In Hasle Lystskov there is an idyllic little forest lake between the trees – Rubinsøen. The lake’s name has nothing to do with gemstones, the name comes from the minerals in the soil that made the lake’s water coloured with a ruby red hue, which however gradually disappeared as the mine filled with water. The […]

Sapphire Lake – an unused clay pit

In 1968, when the company wanted to expand the possibilities for digging clay for production at the Hasle Klinker- og Chamottestensfabrik, it decided on an area in the forest a short distance from Lake Pyrit. Unfortunately, it was decided to dig a place where the island’s largest population of Screen-flowered Wintergreen grew, but at the […]

The new clay pit – Lake Pyrit

Coal has been dug in Hasle Lystskov since the mid-1800s. In the process, a lot of clay was also obtained, which was used for tiles, among other things. However, there was no real factory of clay products until 1889, when the Hasle Klinke- og Chamottestenfabrik was established. But when that company opened, it needed large […]

The first clay pit – Emerald Lake

Dhen production began at Hasle Klinker- og Chamottestenfabrik in about 1900, a lot of clay was needed. The first clay pit to appear in Hasle Lystskov was the one we know today as Emerald Lake. However, this soon turned out not to be a good idea. They had to stop the clay digging, not because […]

Buildings in Rønne – Hafnia House

  A building in Rønne that is probably known by most Bornholmers is Hafnia Hus, on the corner of St. Torvegade, Byledsgade and Sandgade. The main house, Skibet, is located in St. Torvegade, in Sandgade there are 6 more blocks built together, shaped like a 7, between these buildings there is a common garden for […]

Bornholm Triangles

You may have heard of the Bornholm Triangle, also known as the Bermuda Triangle, where a number of ships have been lost over the years, probably due to a magnetic field affecting the ships’ compass. These shipwrecks, however, are not at all comparable to those in the real Bermuda Triangle, where ships disappeared without a […]