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Bathing public! Private Beach!

Many homeowners who live down to a kyststrand, put up signs that warn that you are on a private beach, and that you now need to follow their rules. It means, according to these homeowners, that you are neither allowed to bathe, put you or pass the beach at all.

But according to Naturbeskyttelsesloven do homeowners generally do not reserve the beach to themselves. According to the agency, other like to move on the so-called private beaches, just as it is permitted to make a short stay.

A short stay is defined as a stay that does not last longer than a day. Although it is a short-term stay good may take place in the night hours, you may not camp, as it may be the case in the other nordic countries.

You may also like to bathe in the water on the 'private' beaches, but it is at your own risk. On privately owned strandbredder and coastline must stay and bathing, however, does not take place within 50 metres from residential buildings.

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In Regulation § 22 says on the beaches:

'Strandbredder and the other shore is open for walking, short stay and bathing in the areas between the daily lavvandslinje and the coherent landvegetation, which is not dominated by salttålende plants or other strandbredsvegetation.

Access is done at your own risk. It is allowed briefly to have a boat without an engine lying on the shore. In the period 1. april - 30. september should dogs be kept on a leash. Dogs must always be kept on a leash where there are grazing livestock. In the period 1. september-31. may is horse riding allowed on the ubevoksede shore and directly down there, if there is legal access to the beach.

the first Paragraph. 2. The rule in the first paragraph. 1 does not include land within the 1. January 1916 is classified as having or involved during the course of business operated on the property. The same applies to the fortifications and port facilities.

the first Paragraph. 3. Public access must not be prevented or impeded.

the first Paragraph. 4. On privately owned strandbredder and coastline must stay and bathing does not take place within 50 metres from residential buildings.'

Source: Naturbeskyttelsesloven

in General, you are allowed unhindered to pass the beaches to walk around along the entire Danish coast. And the owners, who live down to the beach, do not hegne beach check unless they meet one of the following criteria:

Garden go all the way out to the water, ie. to food, not that is the garden to the house and has been since 1. January 1916, to the area continuously has served as have just ago. The garden has since 1916 has been involved during the course of business, or served as fortifications and port facilities.

Meet the beach, not one of the items, must strandejeren not impede access to the beach, or make access difficult with fences, signs, threats, or otherwise.

There are up to 10,000 so-called skræmmeskilte along the Danish coasts. It estimates the investigation of Barriers for public access to nature – rules, field studies and decisions 2019 from the University of Copenhagen, denmark.

Skræmmeskilte are the signs that may raise doubts about the færdselsmulighederne or accessibility – for example, there may be 'Private beach' or 'Access forbidden for unauthorized persons'.

researchers have studied the 36 fields of 1x2 miles in 23 of the total of 75 Danish kystkommuner. Here was bl.a. found 131 'expected illegal skræmmeskifte' – that is, that there are up to the 10,000 illegal skræmmeskilte nationwide.

klagenævnspraksis to skræmmeskilte is illegal, even if the text on the signs is not factually wrong. A municipality may always require skræmmeskilte and other illegal prohibition signs shall be removed when the signage does not meet the conditions in Naturbeskyttelsesloven.

Sources: Friluftsrådet and Barriers for public access to nature – rules, field studies, and decisions, 2019, University of Copenhagen, denmark

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Further it is said in the Naturbeskyttelsesloven, to:

You may like to have a boat without an engine lying on a shore, if it otherwise lives up to the before described criteria. Your dog must be leashed from 1. april to 30. september. On all the beaches. Is there grazing livestock (e.g. cows), should dogs always be kept on a leash. Horse riding on the beach or stretch of coast is allowed from 1. september to 31. may, if the shore is ubevokset, and there is legal access to the beach.

Dogs must bathe at the majority of the Danish coastline, but from 2014, the four-legged pets in no longer bathe on the beaches, that have obtained the international eco-label Blue Flag, which is equal to clear water and safety in the water.

Source: the Dog.dk

In theory, yes. Naturbeskyttelsesloven does not prohibit bonfires on the ubevoksede strandbredder general, however, fires may be prohibited by your local brandlovgivning m.v. Compare the current brandvedtægter in the municipality.

On the vegetated, protected klitarealer is it not allowed to light fires, use cooking or other open fires, use of fireworks or in any other way create a risk of fire.

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Yes. Landscaped roads and paved paths in open country are open for traffic by foot and bike for all.

the Owner of the road can, however, by signage in accordance with the provisions in the Mark - and vejfredslovens § 17 completely or partly prohibit the traffic, if it is a nuisance to the commercial exploitation of the property, if the specific degree generate privacy issues, or if there is a need for the protection of plant and wildlife.

in General, you should enquire about the rules and the legal remedies available in your municipality, where the decisions after Naturbeskyttelsesloven administered.

When there has been a violation of the rules for signage in the open country, when access to an area becomes obstructed, or you suspect a vejnedlæggelse to be illegal, it is therefore the municipality, you must contact the.

A municipality may always require skræmmeskilte and illegal prohibition signs must be removed.

Many local authorities have on their websites several rules to stay on the local beaches, going beyond the applicable legislation. The following things going again on several local government websites:

You may only move on the shore - not the underlying land up to private housing. Show respect to others, clean up after yourself and limit your and your children's noise. Noisy behaviour, ghettoblastere, musical instruments, and the like are not allowed. You do not put the tent up and stay the night on the beach. The landowner may like to put up signs with specific instructions and rules of conduct, and it must follow, as long as they do not conflict with Naturbeskyttelsesloven.

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