Red gatehouse and protected chestnut avenue

Red-limewashed walls, an old coat of arms and chestnut trees leading up to the house. Adlerhus lies on the western edge of Middelfart and was the entrance gate to Hindsgavl Castle. Back then, town and estate lay apart, and the gate marked the boundary.

The castle steward lived here until 1921. The coat of arms on the gatehouse belongs to the Basse Føns family, and Hindsgavl Castle was built in 1788 by Christian Holger Adeler and his wife Karen Basse Føns. The architect behind Adlerhus is unknown, and the name is thought to come either from the castle's founders or from the streets Adelgade and Algade.

Adlerhus Allé runs from Vesterløkke Allé through the gate, and the chestnut avenue between the two has been protected since 1946. The whole stretch to Hindsgavl was once a 2-kilometre avenue, but today Brovejen and the railway to the Lillebælt Bridge cut through it.

ou can only see the building from the outside. Park at Søndre Kirkegård at the end of Vesterløkke Allé and walk the rest along the avenue.