Grønhøj Inn and Museums

Distance: 15.65 Km

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Grønhøj Kro is a Kgl. Privileged inn from 1848, located on Alheden in central Jutland. Here you can visit the Morten Korch Museum in Glegen, experience the history behind the Potato Germans, take a tour of a historic retro shop and much more.

The area is often called "Eine kleine Deutschland", as you will find a lot of German cultural heritage here.

The potato Germans

In stable buildings at Grønhøj Kro there are, among other things, rebuilt a barn, which dates from the time around 1760, when the German colonists (potato Germans) came to the country, and who made the potato a popular food in Denmark.

In the first years, the potato German store stood approx. 100 meters from the place where it has been rebuilt today. After a few years, the owner decided to move his farm to a place where he had more land. It thus became one of the so-called emigrant farms. Today, there are still areas named after several relocations. Names like Two houses, Wooden houses, Fir houses.

German memorial rooms and exhibitions

You can also delve into exhibitions about the nearby German church Frederiks kirken, Fliegerhost Grove (at Flyvestation Karup), the German refugee cemeteries in Kølvrå and Grove Kirke as well as the memorial room for 7 crew members of a downed Lancaster aircraft in 1942.

The Morten Korch Museum

It is also at Grønhøj Kro, in one of the inn's buildings, that you can visit the Morten Korch Museum, which is built around the folk writer Morten Korch.