Nyvang’s butcher shop is set up in the old cow barn of Nyvangsgården, which now represents a small town's main street. The shop is modeled after a butcher's store from around 1940. Inside, you can smell the wonderful aromas of smoked goods and homemade frikadeller (meatballs), and you can purchase various classic specialties to take home.
Originally, slaughtering was part of household tasks, but by the late Middle Ages, it became a specialized trade. In rural areas, people would call on the home butcher when a pig, cow, horse, or lamb needed to be slaughtered. November was slaughtering season, as it provided meat for Christmas and saved the need for feeding animals over the winter. For this reason, November was also known as "slaughter month." In the latter half of the 19th century, the first cooperative slaughterhouses were established and had great success exporting bacon to England.
The cooperative slaughterhouses spread across Denmark up until the 1950s. Afterward, a slow and lengthy process began to consolidate the many companies into a single corporation. This process was finally completed in 1990, with the formation of Danish Crown.
Nyvang’s butcher shop is set up in the old cow barn of Nyvangsgården, which now represents a small town's main street. The shop is modeled after a butcher's store from around 1940. Inside, you can smell the wonderful aromas of smoked goods and homemade frikadeller (meatballs), and you can purchase various classic specialties to take home.
Originally, slaughtering was part of household tasks, but by the late Middle Ages, it became a specialized trade. In rural areas, people would call on the home butcher when a pig, cow, horse, or lamb needed to be slaughtered. November was slaughtering season, as it provided meat for Christmas and saved the need for feeding animals over the winter. For this reason, November was also known as "slaughter month." In the latter half of the 19th century, the first cooperative slaughterhouses were established and had great success exporting bacon to England.
The cooperative slaughterhouses spread across Denmark up until the 1950s. Afterward, a slow and lengthy process began to consolidate the many companies into a single corporation. This process was finally completed in 1990, with the formation of Danish Crown.
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