Bække

Streams have arisen around the old Ancient Road and both the Ancient Road Hiking Route and the Ancient Road Bicycle Route today run through the town. 

Bække is an authentic place in the history of the Ancient Road - we know for sure that THIS is where the route went - also back then in the Ancient Road's first heyday. 

For 5 decades from 1917, the town was a station town on Kolding – the Troldhede Railway. The old station on Stationsvej still bears witness to this time.

Today, Bække is a well-functioning village, which is also a hub for hikers, as the Hærvej hiking route and the coast-to-coast path along Holme Å meet here. In the town there is a good exhibition about the Ancient Road and there is a grocery store that can service hikers and other guests in the town. The town's old inn is a Royal Privileged Inn from 1668. 

North of the town is the impressive stone ship at Klebæk Høje, which is Denmark's best preserved. In the same area you can see the impressive, 50-tonne stone, the Hamburg Courtyard Stone. Both testify to a history that goes far back in time.

The same goes for Bække Church, a beautiful, Romanesque village church from the 1100s. The church is usually open during the daytime on weekdays. In front of the church stands something as unusual as a rune stone that mentions Thyra. This runestone was erected by the same man who erected the runestone in the bow of the stone ship at Klebæk Høje, which is located a little north of Bække.

From more recent times, the town can display art by Niels Hansen Jacobsen from Vejen and also the Hærvej sculpture, which tells about the cattle herding on the Ancient Road.