Hellig Svends Kilde

Hellig Svends Kilde is a historic holy spring located on the grounds of Vemmetofte Convent, close to Vemmetofte Beach. According to legend, the spring rose up at the spot where the crusader Svend was washed ashore after a shipwreck off the coast — supposedly around the year 1104. The spring's ochre-tinted water was considered to have healing properties, and a chapel was built beside it as early as 1536. In recent years the Stevns-based artist Bo Karberg, together with a paving company, created a stone artwork above the spring, inaugurated in 2024, in which the ochre-coloured water flows out through four openings to form the crusaders' Maltese cross. A quiet spot beneath the forest's old trees, where it is once again possible to drink from the spring.