Blokhus is a village in North Jutland, Denmark. It is located in
Jammerbugt Municipality
Jammerbugt Municipality is a municipality ( Danish: '' kommune'') in the North Jutland Region on the North Jutlandic Island. It is located along the coast of Skagerrak to the north and the Limfjord to the south. It borders the municipalities of T ...
. Blokhus is a popular beach town with around 1 million visitors every year.
History
Blokhus was originally named ''Hune Hvarre''. In the early 1600s there were barely any trees in the area, so timber was imported from
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
. The locals had to store this timber somewhere, so they constructed some houses out of the timber. These houses became known as 'block houses' (Danish: ''blokhuse''), which gave name to the village.
Axel P. Jensen
Axel Peder Jensen (28 September 1885 – 12 June 1972) was a Danish painter who is remembered above all for his landscapes which added new subjects and stronger colouring to earlier works by the Funen Painters.Visitjammerbugten.dk "Gateway Blokhus" Retrieved 17 October 2020