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Do a nature hike along the Kongeå river, a river flowing west from the small town of Vamdrup, past Vejen, and all the way across Jutland to the Wadden Sea coast in the Wadden Sea National Park between Ribe and Esbjerg. Marked route, known as Kongeåstien. Shelters along the route.
Parts of the Kongeå river used to mark the old Danish-German border 1864-1920.
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Sønderskov Manor was first mentioned in 1448 and the present manor house is a Renaissance building built by the nobleman Thomas Juel in 1614-1620. Experience how counts and barons lived during the Renaissance in Denmark. The museum exhibitions changes on a monthly basis. The associated garden park have been restored to its original baroque grandeur, and includes a kitchen and herb garden tended by local volunteers. Among the flowers, trees and vegetables, a school is kept for bee keeping, and the produce can be bought in the museum's shop. The medieval cellars house a restaurant.
Sports
Miniature model of the town, as it was 1900-1930.
Rent a canoe at Vejen Canoecenter and paddle your way down one of the local streams (Kongeåen, Gels å, Ribe å, or Gram å) for shorter or extended journeys. Campsites available on the routes.
Vejen Kunstmuseum
A small museum, with a permanent collection of art from 1900 and after. The main focus is on the sculptor Niels Hansen Jacobsen who not only was the reason the museum was built, but who also lived at the museum after 1924.