LIVE  WITH AN ACTIVE LEISURE TIME IN HVIDE SANDE

LIVE BETWEEN SEA AND FJORD

With its unique location, right in the middle between the North Sea and the Ringkøbing Fjord, Hvide Sande is the optimal place if you want to live close by the sea. Here you may be fortunate enough to find a home overlooking both sides. At any rate - if you move to Hvide Sande - you will be living within walking distance of both the roaring sea and the calmer waters of the Fjord.

 

 

 Foto: hvidesande.dk

 

WORLD-CLASS WATER SPORTS

A lingering look or a walk along the sea is always balm to the soul. If you are into more than the view you can gambol in the playground of thousands of other water enthusiasts. In Hvide Sande you will find world-class water sports, whether it is surfing, SUP, kitesurfing, windsurfing, wakeboarding or something totally different.

THE CABLEPARK in Hvide Sande hat Dänemarks erste und größte Kabelbahn für Wakeboad und Wasserski.

The annual water sports festival, WATERZ, which is the biggest in Scandinavia, is the hot spot for all - from beginners to professionals, including a World Cup in Windsurfing.

 

Kabelpark

 Foto: hvidesande.dk

Consequently, you may have even more new neighbours who are into windsurfing, kitesurfing, or Stand Up Paddling. Year round you can meet people from all over the world who share this interest, and there is plenty of room for both professionals, semi-experienced and eager beginners.

 

ACTIVE BUSINESS COMMUNITY

If you settle in Hvide Sande your new neighbor might also be a boat builder or an engineer from the Hvide Sande Shipyard, a fisherman who supplies the local restaurants and FISH SHOPS 

with freshly caught fish, or a skilled worker in the fishing industry. Long before the town became a favourite water sports venue Hvide Sande was known as a fishing town with its many fishing boats and as the hub of the big work places in the fishing industry. Fishing - together with tourism - is still the hallmark of the town.

Among other well-known Hvide Sande companies, the marine manufacturer AS SCAN and HVIDE SANDE HAVN can be mentioned.

 

Fiskeri

 Foto: Kurt Adsersen

The town is located amidst the Holmsland Klit isthmus. It came into existence around the huge sluice facility between the North Sea and the Ringkøbing Fjord, which was built in 1931. The town now houses one of the biggest fishing harbours with approximately 200 registered fishing vessels.

The citizens of Hvide Sande are renowned for their entrepreneurial spirit. This is necessary when you are so close to the forces of nature. Here limitations are a no-go. Instead, you join together and make things happen, whether it is a big extension of the harbour, wind turbine projects, or big events.

 

TOWN LIFE AND HOUSING WITH A VIEW

Hvide Sande is the 5th largest town in Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune - with approximately 3,000 permanent residents, but the wide variety of shops and RESTAURANTS

matches that of considerably major towns. This is due to the demand for exciting shopping facilities from a great number of annual visitors to the area.

You may find multiple housing opportunities in Hvide Sande. Everything from small, snug houses to big exquisite single-family houses. Some houses offer a view to the North Sea, others a view to the Ringkøbing Fjord. You might also be lucky to find both.

Do you feel tempted to move to Hvide Sande? For more information, click BUY A HOUSE, RENT A HOUSE/FLAT, or to find a PLOT if you want to design your dream house.

 

Hvide Sande

 Foto: Mette Trads 

 

TRAFFIC

On the commuter map on the Frontpage you can see how far you will get around by car with the most general commuter distances, if settling in Hvide Sande while having a job at another location. There is a BUS SERVICE, also an X-BUS, between Hvide Sande and Ringkøbing. From Ringkøbing connections by train or bus to Skjern, Holstebro, and Herning are available. From Hvide Sande it is 1½ hours’ drive to BILLUND AIRPORT und MIDTJYLLAND´S AIRPORT. Here is also a Share-a-car-arrangement.

 

MORE ABOUT HVIDE SANDE

Here you can read more about Hvide Sande and Klittens Borgerforening.

 

DAY CARE FACILITY AND SCHOOL IN HVIDE SANDE

For further information about Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune offer of day care and day care centre, click hier. Below you will find contact information about Hvide Sande day care/day nursery and the school:

Klittens Børnehus
Parallelvej 301, 6960 Hvide Sande
Phone (0045) 99 74 12 00
klittens-boernehus@rksk.dk


Hvide Sande Skole
Skolevej 2, 6960 Hvide Sande
Phone (0045) 99 74 26 60
hvidesandeskole@rksk.dk

Afdeling Fjordskolen (0-3rd grade + after-school care facilities)
Gytjevej 70, 6960 Hvide Sande

 

SPORTS CENTRE AND SWIMMING FACILITIES

HVIDE SANDE HALLEN both holds a sports centre, swimming facilities as well as a fitness centre. For information about one of the active associations in Hvide Sande, click BOLDKLUBBEN KLITTEN.

Search for local associations in Hvide Sande by clicking Here, and go to FRITID-NATUR-KULTUR to learn more about leisure activities in Ringkøbing-Skjern Kommune. Use the Google Translate function.

Charlotte and Ian

 
Danish/English couple:

Wish of living the good life

”Above all, we just wanted to be together and live the good life. We love being together” says the Danish/English couple Charlotte and Ian Coles who have settled down in an idyllic old farm house at Kloster, halfway between the Ringkøbing Fjord and the Stadil Fjord and close to the town of Ringkøbing.

It is not surprising that the couple had a wish of the good life in peaceful surroundings with lots of nature. Ian was a Major in the British Army, which meant the couple had moved around military bases in England and Germany for years. Ian had also been deployed close to the world’s war zones, leaving Charlotte alone and suffering months of deprivation during their first year in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality.

They bought the old farmhouse overlooking the Stadil Fjord in 2013, and Charlotte moved in full-time, while Ian could only come home as work allowed. But now the good life has really started as Ian retired this summer.

Ian is 48 years old and he has just landed a job with Vestas - the wind turbine manufacturer – as a Project Training Leader. 

Charlotte and Ian - Read the full story here

 

Ioana and Sorin

 
Romanian Family:

We have been made very welcome

”We love our country, Romania, but we have also grown very fond of Denmark which has become our home,” says 37-year-old Sorin Ungureanu who - together with his wife Ioana and their two children - find themselves so much at home that in the autumn of 2017 they bought the house of their dreams in Borris. Borris is a town with approximately 800 inhabitants in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality – geographically the biggest municipality in Denmark.

“We have been living here since 2011 and our children are fully integrated in the local community and gradually, so are we. We have been made to feel really welcome in this town. People gladly help us and we are very happy about living here,” Sorin says whilst simultaneously smiling at Erling Søndergaard - one of the passionate locals who likes to give a lending hand. Erling has helped the family with the purchase of their house, and as a friend of the family he joins our conversation as to why Sorin and Ioana came to Denmark and what it is like for a foreign family to move to Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality.

”We are also happy having you here. We can tell that you like being here, and you have also done a great deal to become a part of the community,” Erling points out referring to the fact that Sorin among others has been active in leading a father-child gymnastics team and a table tennis team in town.

Ioana und Sorin - Read the full story here