Avnbøl Sned - Bamboo and Raven Forest

A small natural gem that offers both fun and different nature experiences.

If you drive along route 41 in the direction of Aabenraa and turn left onto Bojskovvej, approx. 2,5 km after the roundabout at Ullerup, a small forest appears on the left after approx. 500 meters.

Avnbøl Sned is approx. 44 hectares and here you will find 2 round mounds and a long shaft, all of which can be dated to the Stone Age (3950-2801 BC). The planting is mainly beech trees, with oak, ash and birch trees as well as red spruce and then there is the Asian, which is not native to the Danish forests – yellow bamboo.

When there was a shortage of bamboo in Denmark during the Second World War, a local forester thought that a good business could be made, so he bought yellow bamboos and planted them in the forest, and it is offshoots of them that you can see today on the "bamboo trail" ”.

If you are in the forest when dusk sets in, you will experience flocks of large black birds that seek out the forest. Avnbøl Sned is one of the few raven forests in Denmark, where the mythological bird spends the night.

Nature guide Andreas Hermann has written a recommendation for the forest, which can be found via the link - The bamboo forest Avnbøl Sned

You will find a map of the forest under the Download tab

Troels Trier Mørk (1906-90)
The aforementioned forester was a well-known personality in the Broager area and around Nørreskoven on the island of Als. During the occupation in World War II (2-1940), Troels Trier Mørk was employed as a state forest officer, but at the same time he was also the head of a camp for German refugees in Broager, together with the German camp chief Mr. Aretz, and Freedom Fighter, where he, among other things, practiced shooting in Skelde Kobbelskov with his group of resistance fighters. They hid the weapons by the long guns out in the forest.

During his time as a forester in Nørreskoven, he lived with his family at Nygård in the northern part of the forest. Here, among other things, he bred wild boar, which was not always completely without challenges. One of the sows had a habit of breaking out of the barn when she had to fart (give birth) - then Sofie disappeared into the forest and only appeared a few days later with a litter of striped cubs.

Troels was not shy about trying out culinary specialities, neither at home nor on his travels abroad, and it also resulted in 2 cookbooks; The forest warden's game dishes and the forest warden's fish dishes. Here you will find recipes for everything from vinberg snails to roe babies to the small toothed whale, the porpoise.

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