Fanø Vadehavet

Fanoe

Fano is a small island with an area: 56 km2 located in the Wadden Sea outside Esbjerg, slightly hidden from the rest of Denmark

Fano beach on double bike

Fano has great cultural and natural values, and since the late 1800s, Fanø has been a popular tourist and holiday resort and is probably even more popular today.

Two car ferries connects Fano from Esbjerg, the crossing takes about 12 minutes. We sail every 20 minutes in summer and every 40 minutes in winter.

Fano can take your breath away by nature lovers.. 

The beach at Fano is 15 km long. It is unique for a walk out over the dunes and stand farther off the land where sea and sky meet. Here is the fresh air and scent of the sea. In the summer unfolds a glorious Life of Danish and foreign families enjoying the sun and sea.

Fano has two permanent settlements Nordby and Soenderho, and two new holiday villages, Fano Vesterhavsbad and Rindby Strand.

Pigen fra Fanø

Nordby (Odden) is located in the northeastern part of tides during the extension of the ferry landing. That it is a historic fishing and seafaring felt in the city's houses and farms. Several streets are cobblestone and radiates hollyhock idyll. Many of the houses still have thatched roof, reminiscent of a bygone era.

Soenderho Hotel - Inn

Soenderho is by sea tides during Galgedyb on the southernmost part of the island. 

Fano Municipality was created in 1970 by merging parishes Nordby and Sønderho. Fano chose to remain an independent municipality in municipal merger 2007.
Shipping is an important industry, and the island's nautical and maritime training school, both in Nordby, keeping the old skipper traditions.

Tourism. Fanoe has been a popular tourist destination since the late 1800s. It was time to seaside hotels and painters who sought light and motives. Tourism stagnated during the interwar period, but started again after 1960 when many new homes, and hotels were renovated.

Today is Fanoe main revenue tourism, which contributes over half of the municipality's economy. Therefore there is a high employment in tourism. Fano has a wide range of accommodations. There are two resorts and 2,500 homes. about one million. people staying each year on Fanoe.

Fanoe Soenderho church

The church dates from 1786. The building, which was built by Peder Fristad, is equipped with a hipped roof of black glazed bricks. The altar is from 1864, the pulpit from 1620, the ore cast baptize front from 1450. In the ceiling hang eight ship models.

The story
Fano has since the Middle Ages has been a regular occupant of a fisherman people engaged in fishing and seal hunting and that has probably infested fishermen from the mainland.

Klik for stor kort

Fano belonged to the king, and were thus called "crown land". All proceeds from the fishery would be credited to the king.

First in 1741 surpassed Fano from crown land to the population. In sailing time in the 1700s and 1800s had Fanoe about 150 sailing ships on the high seas.

Fano is first mentioned in King Valdemar's Court Roll from about 1231. It belonged to the Crown and was from the 1500s legally a free royal birch. In the late Middle Ages brought Ribe Citizens fishing villages Soenderho and Nordby, and by the 1500s there were churches in both places. The existing churches in Soenderho and Nordby are listed respectively. 1782 and the 1786th

Fanoe population supported themself originally from agriculture and fishing. Agriculture was in the 1500s and 1600s heavily plagued by sand drifts and fishing from Fano was until 1685 subject Ribes and Vardes privilege negotiation and export of the area's fish catches. The repeal of this privilege was the very beginning to the development which, Fanoe buying out the crown in 1741 led to its heyday as maritime island in the late 1700s and throughout the 1800s. During the period developed island sailing ship sailing from local Wadden Sea Speed over domestic voyages in the North and Baltic Sea for ocean-going long voyages.

 A significant shipbuilding was established on Fanoe. Competition from steamships and numerous shipwrecks made in the early 1900s to the sailing ship fleet so, and in the late 1800s Fanoe known as a seaside resort and tourism became a profession.

Soenderho Inn is from the 1600 and is one of the oldest houses on Fanoe.