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Houmeden
The development of the town of Randers is primarily due to commercial activities. In fact, Randers got the first pedestrian street in Denmark. More than 50 years ago visionary merchants realized that it gave new possibilities for the trade and the life in the town. The word Houmeden is derived from “homej”, which means entrenchment in front a gate of a fortress. The statue Konen med Æggene (The woman with the eggs) symbolizes the historical trade with agricultural products, which took place in Erik Menveds Plads. The approx. 2,5-metrehigh bronze statue is the Danish sculptor Ane Brügger’s first large sculpture.
Did you know?
... that you can see an exhibition of stove doors at Store Voldgade (in the yard with entrance through the gate)? In the house Store Voldgade no. 6 Knud Christensen ran a branch of Vejle Støbegods, and it is said that he hid illegal weapons on his property during World War II. He also collected cast iron plates from ovens from the farms and manors of the area. The plates were produced in Norway and in Germany in the 1700s and 1800s, and some of them are exhibited here, where they must remain by registered declaration.
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