Sæby

History

Attractions

• Sæby Glassblowing Workshop
• Sæby Harbour
• Sæby Church
• Fruen fra Havet: 6,25 m. high statue standing on the pier at the entrance to Sæby harbour. The statue was made by artist Marit Benthe Norheim and it was inaugurated in 2001.
• Sæby Museum
• Sæby Old Town
• Sæby Teddies
• Sæby Watermill
• Sæbygaard Manor: A manor house from the renaissance. Inside there is a small museum with exhibitions of historical furniture.
• Sæby Beach
• Sæby Townsquare

  Notable people

Science & Business

• Jacob Severin a Danish merchant who held a trade monopoly on Greenland from 1733 to 1749
• Sophus Frederik Kühnel a Danish architect, designed Mejlborg and a number of other buildings in Aarhus
• Adam Giede Böving a Danish-American entomologist and zoologist, studied the larvae of the order Coleoptera

  The Arts

• Henry Holst a Danish violinist, variously at the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Royal Manchester College of Music, the Royal College of Music and the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
• Carl Ottosen a Danish actor, screenwriter and film director, appearing in 70 films
• Walter Kuhlman an American painter and printmaker, linked to Abstract Expressionism and American Figurative Expressionism, brought up in Sæby
• Jørgen Rømer a Danish art historian, graphic artist and painter
• Lene Siel a Danish singer

  Sport

• Merete Pedersen a Danish former footballer, member of the Danish national team for 16 years
• Rasmus Thellufsen a Danish footballer, playing for AaB