Als Attractions

7km /4.5mi northeast of Sønderborg on the island of Als lies the town of Augustenborg. In a large park stands a palace built in 1776 in the Roccoco style, now a psychiatric hospital.

Note the palace chapel with its beautiful stucco work by the Italian Michelangelo Taddei; the font was a gift from the Russian Czar Alexander I.

Since 1992 there has been an ultra-modern History Center ("Historiecenter Dybbøl Banke") opposite the windmill in Dybbøl on the mainland of Jutland. With the aid of multivision and other modern aids it graphically portrays the highlights of the retreat from Danewerk and the Battle of the Dybbøl Trenches. A model of the entrenchments to the scale of 1:10 illustrates the basic tactics employed and is currently the largest and most detailed model of its kind in Denmark.

Road No. 8 passes through the center of Als and on to Fynshav, a village on the Little Belt, from where a ferry plies to the island of Funen.

An interesting palace, Nordborg, lies in the north of Als. Originally a castle, it was built in the 12th C. as defense against the Wends, destroyed during the wars against Sweden and rebuilt between 1665 and 1670. In the early 20th C. it was further converted and now houses a college of further education.