Ulvshale is a peninula and small summer house

Summer house

A summer house or summerhouse has traditionally referred to a building or shelter used for relaxation in warm weather. This would often take the form of a small, roofed building on the grounds of a larger one, but could also be built in a garden or park, often designed to provide cool shady places...

 locality in the north-eastern corner of the Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 island of Møn

Møn

-Location:Møn is located just off the south-eastern tip of Zealand from which it is separated by the waters of the Hølen strait between Kalvehave and the island of Nyord, at the northern end of Møn. Further south is Stege Bugt...

. Its long sandy beach and natural forest attract tourists particularly in the summer months.

The locailty

The locality of Ulvshale (which literally means Wolf's Tail) stretches fro Hegnede Bakke in the south east to Ulvshalegård in the north west. It consists mainly of summer houses along the sandy beach lined with small sand dunes. The earliest summer houses date from 1918 but many more were built in the 1930s and especially towards the end of the 20th century. Østersøbadet was built in 1930 as a seaside hotel but has since been used as a training centre for adults. There is a large camping ground at the northern end of the community between the summer house area and the forest.
File:Ulvshale5.JPG|thumb|left|Ulvshale Forest in the spring

The forest

In the 17th century, the Ulvshave Forest consisted mainly of oak. Statistics from 1696 refer to 2,500 large oak trees. These were felled after a change in ownership in 1769 when the area began to be used as pasture for cattle and pigs. Despite complaints from local farmers, the forest was protected in 1839 under Danish regulations calling for the maintenance of all forests. New trees were planted in the middle of the 19th century reviving the old forest.

Now covering half the peninsula, the forest has since been allowed to grow freely for a considerable time. Narrow paths take visitors through all the most common Danish trees including beech

Beech

Beech is a genus of ten species of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America.-Habit:...

, birch

Birch

Birch is a tree or shrub of the genus Betula , in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. The Betula genus contains 30–60 known taxa...

, elm

Elm

Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae. The dozens of species are found in temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward into Indonesia. Elms are components of many kinds of natural forests...

, aspen

Aspen

Populus section Populus, of the Populus genus, includes the aspen trees and the white poplar Populus alba. The five typical aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains. The White Poplar, by...

, ash, alder

Alder

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants belonging to the birch family . The genus comprises about 30 species of monoecious trees and shrubs, few reaching large size, distributed throughout the North Temperate Zone and in the Americas along the Andes southwards to...

, rowan

Rowan

The rowans or mountain-ashes are shrubs or small trees in genus Sorbus of family Rosaceae. They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomictic microspecies...

 and above all oak

Oak

An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus , of which about 600 species exist. "Oak" may also appear in the names of species in related genera, notably Lithocarpus...

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Pastures

The western side of the forested area is covered with extensive pastures offering excellent breeding grounds for a wide variety of birds including ducks, geese and herons as well as many migratory birds. The cattle and sheep grazing here improve conditions for the birds who feel safer when they can see all around thanks to the short grass.

Flint

Driven by sea currents, the flintstone pebbles in the Ulvshave area stem from Møns Klint

Møns Klint

Møns Klint, , is a striking landmark and tourist attraction along the eastern coast of the Danish island of Møn in the Baltic Sea. The bright chalk cliffs stretch some 6 km from the park of in the north to the in the south. Some of the cliffs fall a sheer 120 m to the sea below...

. A number of firms have exploited the resource, especially Ulvshave Stenværk. Møn is one of the few places in the world where flint is available for industrial use. Interest in exporting the resource began at the beginning of the 20th century and expanded especially in the 1920s and 1930s. The flint industry provided jobs for the local population for over 50 years until Ulvshale's Stenværk finally ceased operations in 1974.

External link

• Ulvshale from Insula-moenia.dk