Introduction
For hundreds of years cattle dealers drove their cattle along the long route from Limfjorden in the north to the marshland of southern Jutland for fattening before being sold on to Germany and Holland. The road they took is called Drivvejen.
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In this area today it is possible to walk approximately 120 km in the footsteps of the cattle dealers from Hviding to the south of Ribe, where the national border with Germany appeared in 1920, to the county border north of Ølgod. The landscape is flat, the sky high above, and you can see many kilometres ahead. |
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When you walk to Ribe from the north or the south, you can see the Cathedral towering above the marshland and you get a sense of history because this sight has met the walker for nearly one thousand years. The distances between towns are great on the sandy soil of west Jutland. Some town are smaller station towns which grew up alongside the railway, others are villages with farms, churches and pubs. |
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