9 Sights in Silkeborg, Denmark (with Map and Images)

Virklund Church is a church in Virklund Parish built in 1994. It was designed by architects Inger and Johannes Exner and is located in the town of Virklund, five kilometres south of Silkeborg city centre. The church is located on a large, sloping plot and is partly surrounded by a cemetery, and below the church is a parish hall with an assembly hall, meeting room, confirmation room and offices for the church staff.

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Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, is an art museum located by Gudenåen in Silkeborg, Denmark. The museum holds the collections that were developed by Asger Jorn (1914–1973) from the early 1950s until his death in 1973, since when they have doubled in extent.

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Silkeborg Castle has been located on a castle islet northeast of Silkeborg's current centre, where the Gudenå flows into Silkeborg Langsø. It is not known when the oldest Silkeborg Castle was built. It was demolished in 1726 after being in disrepair for a number of years.

Wikipedia: Silkeborg Slot (DA)

Silkeborg Museum is a museum of Danish cultural history with official state recognition based in Silkeborg Municipality, Denmark. Museum Silkeborg is located at three different sites: Manor House (Hovedgården) and the Paper Mill Museum (Papirmuseet) in Silkeborg and Blicheregnen farm in the village of Thorning.

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Kragelund Church is a church in Kragelund Parish in the former Hids Herred, Viborg County, now Silkeborg Municipality. The nave and choir of the church are from around the year 1150, while the porch and tower were added later. The chancel has a flat east wall and two original windows, which are now bricked up. Both doors with portals have been preserved, the north door in a bricked-up state. The south portal has four half-columns with cube capitals and strong crowstones as well as round arches. In the tympanum field two lions can be seen, on the frame stones two dragons are seen to the east around a cross and to the west animals and figures in medallions. On the underside of the tympanum is carved "Æse bode, Vagn toasted." Here, both the builder and the stonemason are named, which is rare in early Danish church art, but who Æse and Vagn were, must remain unknown. The north portal also has four half-columns and a tympanum field with the blessing Christ.

Wikipedia: Kragelund Kirke (DA)

Voel Church in Voel is from 1876. In the 1930s, it was decorated by the artist Jais Nielsen, who provided the church's windows with stained glass and a distinctive ceramic baptismal font and a large fresco behind the church's altar. Voel Church was designed by architect C. Kiilsgaard with a cruciform church as the ground plan. The walls are built of red brick and are in the Romanesque style with round-arched windows and wall glares.

Wikipedia: Voel Kirke (DA)

Silkeborg Water Tower is a water tower located on Amaliegade in Silkeborg. The tower was designed by Anton Rosen, who was behind a number of buildings in Silkeborg at the beginning of the 20th century, for C. Commichaus Fabriker and is in the style of historicism. It was built in 1902 and was listed in 1986.

Wikipedia: Silkeborg Vandtårn (DA)

Gødvad Church is a church located in Gødvad Parish on the northern outskirts of Silkeborg. It is located in the former Hids Herred, Viborg County, now Silkeborg Municipality. The chancel and nave were built in Romanesque times of granite squares over a sloping plinth, presumably around 1150. Both rectangular doors have been preserved, the south door in use, the north door bricked up, in the glare of the north door a tympanum with a braided cross in the middle flanked by two small crosses inscribed in circles, this tympanum possibly from an earlier priest's door. In the east wall and north wall are original Romanesque windows. The tower and porch were built in late Gothic times. In the masonry of the tower is inserted a chancel arch crowstone with a vine and lion.

Wikipedia: Gødvad Kirke (DA)

Indelukket is a facility with a motorboat harbour, open-air theatre and campsite etc. in the forest by Remstrup Å in Silkeborg, which was bought by Silkeborg Municipality in 1899. It had previously been a fenced forest, but in 1901 it was possible to celebrate Constitution Day at a newly established festival site in the forest, and since then it has been a much sought after facility by both tourists and locals.

Wikipedia: Indelukket (DA)