About Christiansfeld

Christiansfeld situated south of Kolding is the town of the Moravian Brethren and the honey cakes! The town was founded in 1773 by the Moravian Brethren, who moved there from the Netherlands. In a very short time Christiansfeld bloomed and became known as a town with unique trades.

The unique trades are stilling alive and ensure that Christiansfeld is known by the whole country – need we say more but:Honey cakes, tiled stoves and Danish salami.

Christiansfeld is special by being planned and built according to the same design as the first town of the Moravian Brethen of Herrnhut in Germany. So it has not been built gradually like so many other small towns in Denmark. The major part of the original town was built from 1773 to 1812, and today the old part of town is a living national monument in the middle of the heart of the town – and a part of the everyday life of the town and its citizens. Christiansfeld is on the Danish tentiave list for acceptance into the UNESCO World Heritage List – which says a lot about how special and wonderful this town is.

The most beautiful Moravian town of Europe
The Moravian Brethren of Christiansfeld is a evangelical independent congregation and is part of a worldwide brotherhood with towns and congregations in many countries. The stable ideology is uninfluenced by the geographical destination, and many of the towns are built exactly like Christiansfelt. Christiansfeld is considered to be the most beautifully preserved of the old Moravian towns in Europe, because the original Christiansfeld is still preserved. The buildings stand today, as when the town was founded at the command of King Christian VII in 1773.

Christiansfeld is best experienced by taking a walk around the town on your own or by joining a tour and be told the history.


Visit a different churchyard
The God's Acre ("Gudsageren") is the own churchyard of the Moravians, where the dead rest in the same way as the congregation is seated in the church, the sisters on the right and the brethren on the left.
All tombstones are alike symbolizing that all are equal after death. The inscripions of the stones are facing east, and the numbers indicate the order of deaths in the congregation from the first death in 1773 until today.

See the pharmacist’s garden
In the symmetrically laid out medieval garden you will find a lot of traditional European
medicinal plants. The garden was originally established together with the pharmacy in 1783. The beautiful building still houses the pharmacy of Christiansfeld and is situated at 21, Lindegade.