23 kmMarl Extraction in Skovlund
Marl digging explains, mainly as background, how heathland soil was transformed.
Photo coming soonIn Klelund, it is not only the trees that tell the story. The forest roads are laid out as distinctive stars, and at Syvstjernen seven roads meet in one center . Here you can clearly feel that the old heath was not just planted, but mapped out with plan and purpose.
Before the plantation, the area was a sandy heathland. Under the treetops, older traces still remain: elongated burial mounds, a round burial mound and burial mounds in and around Klelund. The ancient monuments are accessible with information signs, among others at Tinghøj and Jyndovn .
The damp areas tell another usage history. In the bogs, peat was formerly extracted, and this gives the forest an extra layer: not just plantation and hunting landscape, but also a working landscape, where soil, water and fuel had practical importance.
In the southern part stands the memorial stone for a British Halifax aircraft that crashed after an attack by a German night fighter. The story is violent, but the stone makes it concrete and local in the middle of the forest roads.
Villa Klelund is part of the ownership history, but the building is private and not accessible. Travel should take place on the forest roads and with respect for signage.
Photo coming soonIn the 1970s, Klelund Plantation got a small private airstrip in the middle of the forest. It was not for passenger traffic, but for plantation operations under Countess Edel Brockenhuus-Schack, née Kaars Sijpesteijn.
The runway is linked to aerial phosphorus fertilization on the poor, sandy heathland soil. It is a quirky trace in the history of the forest: the plantation as a working landscape, where an aircraft could become just as practical as a forest road.
Photo coming soonJyndovn in Klelund Plantation is a protected long barrow, i.e. an elongated burial form from the Late Stone Age. It is stated to be approximately 74 meters long and 3 meters wide, but should not be confused with the larger Store Jyndovn south of Hovborg.
The ancient monument is accessible with an information sign . As a protected ancient monument, it must not be altered or damaged; here, the Stone Age has not been reconstructed, but preserved as a quiet trace among the trees.
Photo coming soonThe Seven-Pointed Star is Klelund’s most distinct forest geometry: seven forest roads meet at a single center . The road star is connected to F.C. Moltke’s idea of planting in triangles, divided by roads that came together in five- and seven-pointed stars.
The place shows the plantation as a drawing in the landscape. Before the forest, this was sandy heathland with heather; here the heath was turned into a regulated working and forest landscape.
Photo coming soonTinghøj is not large: approximately 11 metres in diameter and just under one metre high. In return, it stands out clearly as a prehistoric monument with a preserved ring of kerbstones and a burial chamber in the middle of the mound, covered by a stone measuring about 2 by 1.6 metres.
The name may make the place sound like an ancient thing site, but the sources describe this Tinghøj specifically as a round dolmen from the Stone Age. A little further south stood a now-levelled burial mound with finds of a battle axe and 750 amber beads.
Villa Klelund is the plantation's historic main building, erected after the change of ownership in 1919 and referred to as a little wooden castle. It was built as the owner's residence and belongs to the part of Klelund where plantation operations, a hunting environment, and new fortunes after World War I left visible traces.
The building is located in a privately owned natural area and is not a regular visitor destination. It makes most sense as a fixed point in the landscape around the star roads and the old utility buildings.
