Fænø is a small
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island in the
Little Belt
The Little Belt (, ) is a strait between the island of Funen and the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. It is one of the three Danish Straits that drain and connect the Baltic Sea to the Kattegat strait, which drains west to the North Sea and Atla ...
off the west coast of
Funen
Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...
in
Middelfart Municipality. With an area of 3.9 km
2, as of 1 January 2010 it has a population of just 2. Reaching a height of 39 metres above sea level at its highest point, the island is privately owned. Fænøgård, which used to be the island's farm, has now been completely rebuilt in an architecturally modern style. It caters for private parties and has residential facilities. The island is separated from Funen by the 500-meter-wide Fænø Sund and can be reached by private ferry.
Fænøgård
Built in the middle of the 18th century, Fænøgård used to be the island's farmhouse. However, in 2000, Flemming Skouboe, former owner of
LM Glasfiber, a Danish windmill firm, purchased the island. He replanted the estate with 700,000 trees and bushes, and put up a three-winged red-brick building designed by
schmidt hammer lassen, a Danish architectural firm. Completed in 2005, it houses works by a number of Danish artists including
Asger Jorn
Asger Oluf Jorn (3 March 1914 – 1 May 1973) was a Danish painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. He was a founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA and the Situationist International. He was born in Vejrum, in the northwest c ...
,
Per Kirkeby,
P.S. Krøyer,
Carl-Henning Pedersen
Carl-Henning Pedersen (23 September 1913 – 20 February 2007) was a Danish painter and a key member of the COBRA movement. He was known as the "Scandinavian Chagall", and was one of the leading Danish artists of the second half of the 20th ...
,
Christian Lemmerz and
Michael Kvium
Michael Otto Albert Kvium (born 15 November 1955) is a Danish artist. He has excelled in a number of fields such as painting, illustrating, sculpting and various performance genres. Since the early 1980s, he has created grotesque realistic works, ...
. In addition to the modern manor house, there are also four separate buildings to accommodate guests. The facilities can be used by private groups, for banquets, hunting parties or to experience the island's natural environment.
Jeppe Bangsgaard, "Forførende Fænø"
''Business.dk'' from Berlingste Tidende, 18 September 2009. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
See also
*List of islands of Denmark
This is a list of islands of Denmark.
Overview
There are about 406 islands in Denmark, not including the Faroe Islands or Greenland. Some 70 of them are populated while the rest are uninhabited. Some of the uninhabited islands have only become u ...
* Middelfart Municipality
References
Further reading
*Hjort Per, Als Roald, Wiklund Bert: ''Fænø'', Frederiksværk: Cervus, 2004, 192 pp.
*Fetersen Åge; ''Fænø'', Middelfart: Udgivelsesselskabet i MiddeIfart, 1970, 91 pp.
External links
Official website
(Danish)
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Islands of Denmark
Geography of Middelfart Municipality