{"id":4030,"date":"2026-07-08T07:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T05:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/holkastien\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T20:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T18:17:21","slug":"holkapath","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/holkapath\/","title":{"rendered":"Holka Path"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Start at the Helligdomsvej car park, first following Helligdomsvej towards Allinge and Holkabroen.<\/p>

The first road on the left is Malkestien, which you should take. In the past, Gudhjem had active farms with dairy cattle. The fields were located above Gudhjem, and Malkestien was the path used when the cows were taken out to pasture.<\/p>

The road passes idyllic gardens where the rocks form part of the garden environment. Ahead you can also see \u201cKaffeslottet\u201d, built in 1912 by coffee merchant Sahl. The building materials came from the former main railway station in Copenhagen.<\/p>

Where the road bends, you will see the former fire station on your left. A little further ahead on the right is the path leading through the enchanting Holkarenden.<\/p>

Holkarenden is a small rift valley. At the bottom lies a large rock which, because of its resemblance to a horse, was given the name \u201cHolkahesten\u201d \u2013 the Holka Horse.<\/p>

\u201cFor i Tier saa Holkar\u00e6\u2019nan ijkje seddan ud som nu, \u00e5 B\u00e6lla tore daa slet ijkje gaa derhen, for di va bonge for Holkah\u00e6ste\u2019n, som a\u2019le trode bode d\u00e8r\u2026.\u201d
(In the old days, Holkarenden did not look as it does today, and children certainly did not dare go there because they were afraid of the Holka Horse, which everyone believed lived there.)<\/p>

The Holka Horse also gave its name to an artists\u2019 association that exhibits at Gudhjem Museum every summer. Read the fable<\/a> about the Holka Horse here.<\/p>

Holkadalen now lies ahead of you, with Holkabroen rising above it. Holkadalen has been, and still is, used for summer parties and open-air theatre, among other things.<\/p>

When Holkabroen (the bridge) and the road over Bokul were to be built in 1957, the town was deeply divided over the issue. The disagreement ran so deep that some people stopped greeting one another when they met.
The route continues under the bridge and straight ahead along Holkavej, where you get a view of Gudhjem spread across the sloping rock. At the end of Holkavej, by Karamelkompagniet, you reach Br\u00f8ddegade, where you turn left.<\/p>

At No. 38, the artists who came to Gudhjem in the 1930s used to meet at the home of the sisters and ceramicists Gertrud and Lisbeth Hjorth.
Just before No. 38 is Skytteg\u00e6nget, the road leading down to the long-closed gun battery.<\/p>

You can reach the harbour either by following Skytteg\u00e6nget or by taking one of the next small side streets.<\/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":"

Holka Path Fables, art and conflict Start at the Helligdomsvej car park, first following Helligdomsvej towards Allinge and Holkabroen. The first road on the left is Malkestien, which you should take. In the past, Gudhjem had active farms with dairy cattle. The fields were located above Gudhjem, and Malkestien was the path used when the […]<\/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-4030","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4030","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=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5699,"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4030\/revisions\/5699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gudhjemmuseum.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}