5 Sights in Tønder Municipality, Denmark (with Map and Images)

Ballum Church is a Romanesque church in Vesterende Ballum, about 19 km west of Løgumkloster. The church's chancel and apse were built in Romanesque style around 1150 and the nave was built about 50 years later around 1200. There 31 meter high tower of red brick is late Gothic, from around the year 1500 and with high pyramidal spire and small gables towards the 4 corners of the world. In the north wall of the tower is a Romanesque tombstone. All the roofs of the church are covered with lead. There are many old houses around the church, and are therefore surrounded by a protected landscape area. The preserved church village Vesterende Ballum is concentrated with buildings located along the street that runs around the church cemetery.

Wikipedia: Ballum Kirke (DA)

St. Clement's Church is a Christian place of worship located in the island of Rømø in Tønder, Denmark. It belongs to the Tønder Priory of the Church of Denmark. The church was dedicated to Saint Clement, the sailors' patron saint. The oldest part of the church was built sometime after 1250 and expanded four centuries later. Possibly in the latter half of the 15th century, the church tower was built in the Gothic style. The church was expanded in the 17th and 18th centuries. Interior decoration includes several votive ships.

Wikipedia: Rømø Church (EN), Website

Hjerpsted Church is located a little west of the village of Hjerpsted – about eight kilometers north of Højer – on Hjerpsted Bakkeø, close to the Wadden Sea coast. It was supposedly originally located in the middle of the parish, which means that the western border of the parish must have been the island of Jordsand, a hallig about eight kilometers from the coast. It has also previously been inhabited, but the sea gradually devoured it, so that today it has completely disappeared.

Wikipedia: Hjerpsted Kirke (DA)

Grøngård is a castle ruin in Southern Jutland approx. 8 km east of Tønder. Grøngård was built around 1570 as a hunting lodge by Duke Hans the Elder. It was probably designed by the architect Hercules von Oberberg with models in contemporary Italian-French Renaissance architecture. After Duke Hans' death in 1580, the castle was rarely used, and it was therefore demolished from 1648 to 1653. The castle had the outer dimensions of 16 m x 18 m.

Wikipedia: Grøngård Slotsruin (DA)

Schackenborg Castle is a château located in Møgeltønder, Southern Jutland. From 1993 until 2014, it was the private residence of Prince Joachim of Denmark, the second son of Queen Margrethe II of Denmark.

Wikipedia: Schackenborg Castle (EN)