Hammershus
Hammershus is a medieval era fortification at Hammeren on the northern tip of the Danish island of Bornholm. The fortress was partially demolished around 1750 and is now a ruin. It was partially restored around 1900.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ruins of fortress on the Danish island Bornholm
- Also known as: “Hammershus Ruin”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Løvehovederne and Ankermyr.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Allinge-Sandvig and Vang.
Allinge-Sandvig
Photo: Aconcagua, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Allinge-Sandvig is a city on Bornholm. These two amalgamated towns on the northern coast of the island are romantic and pretty and have hundreds of old fashioned half-timbered houses.
Vang
Hamlet
Photo: Hubertus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vang is a little fishing village on the northwest coast of the Danish island of Bornholm, 7 kilometres north of Hasle. From the late 19th century, it prospered as a result of its granite-quarrying activities. Vang is situated 2½ km south of Hammershus.
Olsker
Hamlet
Photo: GunnarBach, Public domain.
Olsker is a small community in the north of Bornholm island, Denmark. It is situated in Olsker parish, some 3.5 km south of Allinge and 2.5 km from Tejn. Olsker is situated 4½ km southeast of Hammershus.
Hammershus
- Categories: castle ruin, castle, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Bornholm, Capital Region, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.27092° or 55° 16′ 15″ northLongitude
14.75531° or 14° 45′ 19″ eastElevation
67 metres (220 feet)Open location code
9F7P7QC4+94OpenStreetMap ID
way 378890205OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
2620817Wikidata ID
Q700384
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Hammershus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hammershus”
- Basque: “Hammershus gaztelua”
- Catalan: “Hammershus”
- Chinese: “哈默斯胡斯”
- Czech: “Hammershus”
- Danish: “Hammershus”
- Dutch: “Hammershus (kasteel)”
- Dutch: “Hammershus”
- French: “Hammershus”
- Galician: “Hammershus”
- German: “Burg Hammershus”
- German: “Hammershus”
- Indonesian: “Hammershus”
- Japanese: “ハマスフース”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hammershus”
- Norwegian: “Hammershus”
- Polish: “Hammershus”
- Russian: “Хаммерсхус”
- Spanish: “Hammershus”
- Swedish: “Hammershus”
- Ukrainian: “Хаммерсхус”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hammershus”. Photo: Unukorno, CC BY 4.0.