{"id":3676,"date":"2026-07-08T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T07:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/hovedstroeget\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T20:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:23:05","slug":"mainstreet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/mainstreet\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Street"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Browse the town\u2019s shops<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Start at the Helligdomsvej car park. If you walk straight down Br\u00f8ddegade, you will immediately get a sense of the mountain town.<\/p>

Br\u00f8ddan, as the steep street is commonly known in Gudhjem, is a Bornholm dialect word simply meaning \u201ca road down a steep slope\u201d.<\/p>

Br\u00f8ddan is Gudhjem\u2019s main street and has over the years been home to many different shops and businesses. Gudhjem Museum has published an entire book about the development of Br\u00f8ddan over the past 100 years.
At the top you can see Gudhjem Mill, dating from 1893. Take your time walking down the hill and look at the shops and galleries.<\/p>

Gudhjem\u2019s town troll, \u201cGr\u00e5bakkabobbajn\u201d, lived hidden away on \u201cGr\u00e5bakkajn\u201d in Br\u00f8ddegade, opposite Hotel Gudhjem and Restaurant 3760.<\/p>

He was a headless giant who, after dark, enjoyed blocking the narrow street and preventing people from passing. Many brave men tried in vain to fight their way through him with weapons.<\/p>

The power of \u201cGr\u00e5bakkabobbajn\u201d was finally broken by a young couple whom he tried one evening to prevent from meeting. Their faith in God and faithful love were more than he could withstand. He had to give way, and since then the street could be safely passed day and night.<\/p>

Another story says that he was banished to the cliffs at Gr\u00e5bakke after frightening a newlywed couple over the cliffs at Hestestenene.<\/p>

The rock formation Gr\u00e5bakken was originally much larger than it is today. At the beginning of the 19th century, part of the rock was blasted away to create a better and wider road into town. Before that, the narrow Bryggerstr\u00e6de, which runs parallel to Br\u00f8ddegade, was the town\u2019s \u201cmain street\u201d.<\/p>

Where the road divides, you have two options. Either follow Br\u00f8ddegade and pass all the shops. It continues as L\u00f8kkegade and ends at N\u00f8rresand Harbour.<\/p>

There you continue to the right along N\u00f8rresand, which becomes Ejnar Mikkelsensvej at the bend. You will pass several shops before reaching Gudhjem Harbour itself. A real shopping route!<\/p>

Gudhjem\u2019s shops offer, among other things, arts and crafts, clothing and items for the home.<\/p>

If you want to get to the harbour quickly, keep right onto \u00c5bogade where Br\u00f8ddegade divides.<\/p>

\u00c5bo is the Bornholm dialect word for \u201ceider duck\u201d. Notice the beautiful \u201c\u00e5boer\u201d at the entrance gate to \u00c5bogade No. 3.<\/p>

When you pass \u00c5bogade No. 9, you will see the former Gudhjem school, which today houses, among other things, Gudhjem Library.<\/p>

You can now see Gudhjem Harbour, built among the skerries and extended and dredged several times, but also damaged by two storm surges. In 1936, there were 49 commercial fishermen in Gudhjem. Today there are none.
This route is particularly good when returning from the harbour to the car park, as there are plenty of opportunities to stop along the way on the steep climb.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Main Street Browse the town\u2019s shops Start at the Helligdomsvej car park. If you walk straight down Br\u00f8ddegade, you will immediately get a sense of the mountain town. Br\u00f8ddan, as the steep street is commonly known in Gudhjem, is a Bornholm dialect word simply meaning \u201ca road down a steep slope\u201d. Br\u00f8ddan is Gudhjem\u2019s main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3676","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5091,"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3676\/revisions\/5091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}