Fanefjord Forest Pavilion

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Freedom, community and parties

In the 1760s, the national debt multiplied tenfold. It was covered by higher taxes and selling Crown land. Fanefjord Estate on Møn was bought by local farmers in 1769, making them landowners and free farmers. Land and farms belonged to the estate, and so did Fanefjord Forest. The forest is still divided up into 160 plots to this day. In about 1883, Fanefjord Forest's first inn was built by the new festival ground. In 1906, Skovpavillonen was built in front of the existing inn. It was built of wood from the forest.

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Fun in the forest

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Story written by Keld Møller Hansen

Time / Periode 1906

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Fanefjords pavilion has been the setting for plenty of fun and festivities in the forest. The inn still welcomes plenty of visitors during the summer season and hosts events such as shooting parties, lectures with banquets and private functions. The Danish saying being completely in the forest", like the English "being all at sea", is used by locals to mean they are visiting the hunting inn, another name for the pavilion. One of the biggest parties was held on 3 June 1919 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the date the farmers bought Fanefjord Estate and with it bought their freedom. Altogether, 600 participants gathered around the official speakers and sang songs together in the blazing sunshine. Later, a women's orchestra played and the locals danced far into the night against a backdrop of fireworks lighting up the darkness in splashes of colour. "