Degnejorden 67, Allerslev

Welcome to Degnejorden, a village community designed by LINK Arkitektur, right in the middle of the village of Lejre.

For the first time since the first residents moved in, an owner-occupied home here is now looking for new residents.

At Degnejorden 67 you get a semi-detached house with terraces facing both east and west, so you can enjoy your morning coffee in the sun as well as a glass of wine in the last rays of the sun as it sets over the village church. The garden around the house is modest in size, but it has small fruit trees, berry bushes and a pond, as well as room for pets.

Inside, you are met by a spacious hallway that leads into the home’s large living room and open-plan kitchen-diner with an impressive ceiling height. From this, the largest room in the house, you can reach both rooms and the bathroom. The home currently has two rooms, but part of the living room could easily be partitioned off if you would like an extra room.

Beyond the home itself, you become part of a community with a kitchen-garden group, a dining club, a knitting and crochet club, a children’s house, a workshop and shared celebrations of festive occasions throughout the year. You are free to opt in as you wish, so nothing ever becomes an obligation.

Often, the community is simply a chat or a glass of wine with your neighbour or with the residents of the small handful of houses in the cluster, as well as a place where children can play on the shared meadows.

And a few practical details: the home has its own heating system, a Comfortzone air-to-water heat pump that heats the house via underfloor heating in every room. Ventilation is automatic through air ducts in the windows, which both ensures good air quality and keeps the home’s energy consumption down.

The focus on sustainability shows not only in how the home is run but also in the community, where, for example, the kitchen-garden group concentrates on organic growing without the use of peat, and the dining club, with its weekly communal meals, goes for organic ingredients.

All this in the middle of Lejre, in a meadow landscape that runs down to the stream, and within walking distance of shops and the station, from where Copenhagen can be reached directly in 37 minutes and Roskilde in just 7 minutes.