Street lighting and post lighting for the Monument Area in Jelling

The town of Jelling is a fascinating and complex location, with a dynamic sense of the past represented by vastly differing historical landmarks. It is the site of two runestones and a Romanesque village church. It is a 19th-century railway town with a traditional inn and a local cooperative. The landscape is dominated by two huge grass-covered burial mounds from the Viking era. This group of landmarks are encircled by modern art in the form of hundreds of white concrete posts, marking the outline of a palisade fence from over a thousand years ago. 2024 saw selection of a streetlight design to enhance this site.

Post lights with road optics for the Monument Area

This area, which is included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List, is collectively known as the Monument Area in Jelling. Roads and streets run through it, used by locals for travelling to school and work, and there are also car parks in need of lighting. Therefore, the streetlight design needed optics that would satisfy requirements for standard street lighting.

The client, Vejle Municipality, was recommended ANTO post lights by the architect. The municipality felt that the ANTO design was a good fit for the Monument Area as a whole. Consequently, the architect’s proposal was implemented throughout the project.

Street and post lighting for museum area

A total of 55 ANTO L1014 post lights with a single light housing have been installed along Gormsgade and other streets and in the car parks. These provide street lighting along the roads and post lighting alongside footpaths criss-crossing the grassy areas. Corten steel was chosen for this project and blends well with surrounding materials, such as the cobblestones and rustic benches made from a single piece of timber.

Two ANTO L1016 post lights with spotlights have been installed by the Kongernes Jelling museum. These feature three spotlight-style light housings on posts that taper elegantly upwards.

The ANTO design, created by Aarhus-based studio VE2, is characterised by a small number of well-dimensioned and easily recognisable shapes. The simplicity of these particular lights makes them ideal for use in both historical and modern settings – as is the case in Jelling.