Welcome to Lemvig, West Jutland’s dimple and the beautiful old market town founded in 1234. The oldest document available confirms that
the town of Lemvig is at least 780 years old in (2013). The old fishing village and market town has today approx. 8,000 inhabitants and is characterized as West Jutland’s only mountain town. The town has always been a thriving trading town. Here among the hills and waves, at the bottom of Lem-Vig and at the foot of the beautiful moraine landscape, you’ll find West Jutland’s dimple or simply, and with a twinkle in the eye, Lidenlund.

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Most people are probably familiar with Henning Gantriis’ drawings about “Life in Lidenlund”. Gantriis was born in 1918 in Lemvig, where his father was foreman at the threshing factory Vestjyden.

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He trained as a teacher at Nørre Nissum Seminarium and moved to Copenhagen in 1942, where he worked as a drawing teacher until he could make a living as a full-time draughtsman. For people who haven’t visited Lemvig yet, the town can first and foremost be described as incredibly beautiful, with fjord, lake and hills. In fact, the
beautiful entrance is reminiscent of a beautiful Norwegian village, albeit with less height. Sailboats can sail right into the center of town and dock in the harbor, which is a dream for most sailors. There is also a large marina about 2.3 km out of the beautiful beach road that follows the entrance.

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Lemvig has everything, a large long pedestrian street with many great shops, the harbor, lake, golf course and is close to the sea. Several museums, the Museum of Religious Art & Lemvig Museum.

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On the square is the old, newly renovated church from 1250-(1500). The church was originally a late Gothic nave, but in its expanded form it appears as a nave with two and three side chapels to the north and south and a west tower.