In 1892, railway wor­kers exca­va­ted a lar­ge rock sha­ped like a man. Read more about the stran­ge monu­ment that still stands in the forest near the old tra­cks

GPS Link: 55.3549231, 11.3915090  

Par­king: Oppo­si­te Slud­strup Shel­ter­plads (55.3558460, 11.3896650)

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Near­by Attra­ctions: The Sludstrup/Skørpinge Cros­ses

Towards the end of the 19th cen­tury, a lot of effort was being put into establis­hing a railway line betwe­en Næst­ved, Sla­gel­se and Skæls­kør. In the Sla­gel­se area the railway wor­kers were nick­na­med “banebørster­ne” (lite­ral­ly: “railway brus­hes”, indi­cat­ing that they must have been a rough and rug­ged bunch). The­se wor­kers built seve­ral small sta­tions in addi­tion to the railway itself, inclu­ding the one at Slud­strup. One day in 1892, the “brus­hes” exca­va­ted a stran­ge, lar­ge sto­ne that uncan­nil­ly resem­b­led a den­se­ly built man in a sit­ting posi­tion. Per­haps for fun, or as a monu­ment to their labour, they rai­sed the sto­ne in the near­by forest. Here it still stands to this day, its haun­ting figu­re inspi­ring gre­at joy and won­der in all pas­sers-by.