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CPOY 74 Domestic Picture Story Silver: The Place Where Nothing Can Change

Denmark is changing and evolving all the time, but in the small hut town on Vaernengene nothing must change. In the nature area Vaernengene at the bottom of Ringkoebing Fjord in Denmark, lies 327 small huts. Originally the huts were built by hunters for sleeping between hunting days. However, the huts were built on protected land. Therefore, for many years, they were meant to be torn down, but eventually the huts were protected. They were allowed to stay on one condition. The huts must never change, either in appearance, size or anything else. Since then, the small hunting huts have been in hibernation and must always remain as a primitive hut town". It has made the place a unique area where nothing is changing except the people who visit the place of hunting, enjoying the nature and primitive life, the way it has been done for almost a hundred years. This is the story of people who have an important part of their lives in and around the primitive huts at vaernengene.

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November 24, 2018
The first hunting huts at Vaernengene were built in the 1930s by young men, who was hunting in the area and therefore needed a place to rest between the morning and evening hunts. Some came more than 100 km away. Several of the first huts were built far from Vaernengene and then transported on a truck and set off in the middle of the dunes. Some huts were built by old fishing boxes, and several other creative structures, such as a bus or parts of an old ship, can still be seen in the hut town today. In other words, there are 327 'architect-designed' huts on Vaernengene - for they are home-built, and the word 'standard house' is not heard of around here. The size of the huts shows that many of them back in the days were used for hunting and nothing else. The interior of the huts are very primitive, and often there are only one room with space for a bed and a small kitchen.
Kenneth Koustrup / Danish School Journalism
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