Husby

Husby – the village by the forest

Husby is a small village situated close to the North Sea. In the village you will find a grocery store, a café, a lower-secondary-level boarding school for teenagers between the ages of 14 and 17 and a church.

The church tower – a former seamark.
Husby Church dates from the 12th and 13th centuries. It is built of shaped granite boulders, and it has been restored recently. The tower is endowed with a tall erect spire. This spire was marked on the charts of that time, and seamen took bearings on the spire.

If you cross the main road at Husby, you will reach the dune plantation Husby Klitplantage, where exceptional scenic splendours await you along the marked walking paths.

The plantation put an end to sand drift.
The plantation was laid out by the Government in 1859 in order to stop sand drift.

In the years 1889-1899 the plantation was enlarged. The first time round mountain pines were planted. Today particularly the eastern part of the plantation has a very varied flora with many kinds of wood: oak, beech and tall pines and spruces, which will reproduce by self-sown seeds.

Deposits from the Iron Age have been detected several places under the layers of sand. At the foot of the dunes at the beach Græm Strand glacial deposits from the early Ice Age now and then reveal themselves after a storm.

The road Raketvejen will lead you to the beach Spidsbjerg Strand along the plantation. The lifeboat used to be carried that way when the lifeboat crew were heading for the beach to help people in danger in the sea along the coast.