{"id":13885,"date":"2024-04-22T17:21:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T17:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/?p=13885"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T12:26:58","slug":"nordic-garden-allotment-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/nordic-garden-allotment-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic Garden Allotment Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

This photo showed up on Facebook of houses surrounded by oval hedges with no roads. The caption was nonsense, so I used Google Image Search to see what it really is, De Runde Haver or Oval Gardens, N\u00e6rum, Denmark.<\/p>\n

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The Oval Gardens, N\u00e6rum, Denmark
Photo by Hagai Agmon-Snir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The gardens are in N\u00e6rum, Denmark, north of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

A garden association leased the land in 1948 and garden architect Carl Theodor S\u00f8rensen designed oval h\u00e6komkransede “islands,” each surrounded by a hedge.\u00a0 S\u00f8rensen said. “Neighbors always argued about the common hedge. How should it be cut? How high should it be? Here they each get their own hedge with a no-man’s land between them. That way they don’t have to argue about it!”<\/p>\n

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The Oval Gardens, N\u00e6rum, Denmark
Photo by Hagai Agmon-Snir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

S\u00f8rensen prepared four proposals for how the gardens should be laid out, but each allotment gardener chooses how the land will be used.<\/p>\n

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The Oval Gardens, N\u00e6rum, Denmark
Photo by Hagai Agmon-Snir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The houses are quite small, most around 237 square feet. There is a public bathroom.<\/p>\n

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The Oval Gardens, N\u00e6rum, Denmark
Photo by Hagai Agmon-Snir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mostly they are just used during the day. Some people stay over a weekend or as a holiday getaway.<\/p>\n

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Skansen’s Colonial Garden, 1920s Cabin
Photo by Ellgaard Holger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Skansen Swedish Allotment Garden Huts<\/h2>\n

Skansen is an open-air museum in Sweden. It has examples of traditional Swedish houses and farms.<\/p>\n

The Allotment Huts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Skansen\u2019s two allotment huts come from Stockholm\u2019s southern island.<\/p>\n

During the First World War there was a serious shortage of food in the cities. Working-class families were allotted plots of ground for growing vegetables. Rain shelters were put up and were later replaced by more elaborate huts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The allotment with the red hut shows how common vegetables were grown in the 1920s.<\/p>\n

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Skansen’s Colonial Garden
Photo by Ellgaard Holger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The yellow hut belongs to an allotment from the 1940s with flowers and apple trees.<\/p>\n

Allotment huts<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the First World War there were shortages of potatoes and other staple foods in the cities. In Stockholm the Council let Tanto be cultivated by working-class families, many of whom worked in the neighbouring sugar refinery. The area was divided up into allotments. Initially people mostly grew potatoes and other vegetables but they later began to cultivate flowers and plants such as aconites, foxgloves, dog roses, rhu-barb, beetroot and broad beans.<\/p>\n

Skansen Allotment Huts<\/strong> <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Skansen’s Colonial Garden, 1920s Cabin Interior
Photo by Ellgaard Holger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can see inside the little garden allotment cabins. They are furnished as they would have been in the 1920s or ’40s.<\/p>\n

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Skansen’s Colonial Garden, 1920s Cabin Interior
Photo by Ellgaard Holger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This cabin reflects the interior during the First World War.<\/p>\n

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Skansen’s Colonial Garden, 1920s Cabin Interior
Photo by Ellgaard Holger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The other cabin has furnishings from between the wars.<\/p>\n

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Riksby Allotment Garden Area
Photo by Ellgaard Holger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other Swedish Allotment Garden Cottages<\/h2>\n

This Garden Allotment Cottage is in Riksby, a suburb in V\u00e4sterort, Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n

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Rothoffska Allotment Cottage
Photo by Christopher Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This garden allotment cottage dates from 1903. It is the Rothoffska Allotment Cottage, Landskrona, Sweden. Rothoffska was built on the redundant defensive ramparts (The Citadellet). It is now a small museum.<\/p>\n

The Citadel Allotments are Sweden\u2019s oldest preserved allotment areas, on the old fortifications of Landskrona Citadel. There are 122 allotments here, featuring colourful floral displays and spectacular ornamental woodwork.<\/p>\n

This small, green painted cottage and allotment was built by the Rothoff family in 1903.<\/p>\n

Rothoffska Allotment & the Citadel Guide<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Rothoffska Allotment
Photo by Christopher Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love so many of the details on this house. You can see more of the pictures on this Pinterest board, Garden Allotment Houses on Pinterest<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Winter House
Maihaugen Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
Photo by \u00d8yvind Holmstad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other Scandinavian Cottage Interiors<\/h2>\n

The rest of the photos in this post are not Allotment Houses. They are photos I have saved and never found a place to use and they kinda go with this post.<\/p>\n

The Winter House is a display house in Lillehammer, Norway. It is not an Allotment House.\u00a0 It was built at the end of the 17th century.<\/p>\n

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Winter House
Maihaugen Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
Photo by \u00d8yvind Holmstad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love the colors, the stencils and the wood details.<\/p>\n

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Winter House
Maihaugen Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
Photo by \u00d8yvind Holmstad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Maihaugen is an open-air museum in Norway with more than 200 historic houses from the 13th century until today. It includes; The Rural Area with displays of Country Life in the 1700-1800s, The Town, an inland town in the early 1900s and The Residential Area, homes from the 20th century.\u00a0 You can see wonderful Scandinavian interior and exterior photos on the museum website, Stiftelsen Lillehammer Maihaugen Museum<\/a><\/strong>. If the site isn’t in English, look for the link on the top right.<\/p>\n

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Child’s Bedroom
Tinsley Living Farm, Bozeman, Montana
Photo by Tim Evanson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Off Topic Interiors<\/h2>\n

These interiors aren’t garden allotment related or Nordic or Scandinavian. But I have been wanting to share them and they seem to go here.<\/p>\n

This bedroom is in the Tinsley Living Farm, part of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana. The Tinsley family lived in this house from around 1887 until around 1920. Don’t you love the child-sized wash stand? This is not an allotment cabin, but it looks like some, with the horizontal wood walls and angled ceiling.<\/p>\n

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Hubbard Cottage Front Hall Staircase Fireplace
Roosevelt Campobello International Park
Photo from Canada National Park Service Gallery<\/p>\n

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This photo also has absolutely nothing to do with Allotment Houses, but don’t you just love this little fireplace? It is in the Hubbard Cottage at Roosevelt Campobello, in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. You can drive there from Lubec, Maine in the United States. There are four restored cottages. Here is a link to the park brochure that tells something about the cottages; Roosevelt Campobello International Park and Natural Area<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Maine Cottage Stella Sofa
Maine Cottage Creative Commons licensed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both of these photos were added to Commons by Maine Cottage, a furniture company. They make beautiful painted and upholstered furniture in wonderful colors.<\/p>\n

Take a look at some of the rooms they put together;\u00a0Maine Cottage: Shop The Look<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Maine Cottage Monty Sleeper Sofa
Maine Cottage Creative Commons licensed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This photo showed up on Facebook of houses surrounded by oval hedges with no roads. The caption was nonsense, so I used Google Image Search to see what it really is, De Runde Haver or Oval Gardens, N\u00e6rum, Denmark. 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