Directly on the beach is a bank and invites you to linger. From this delightful patch of earth you have a great view of the peninsula Holnis and the Holnis cliff. Here is the narrowest point of the fjord and the Fördeufer on the German side is close enough to touch. Fairway barrels show the way for shipping - in front of Holnis are sands that are fairly flat. On the beach countless round washed bricks in yellow and red bear witness to the once flourishing brick production. Monks brought brickmaking and masonry to Denmark, and in the previous centuries a number of brickworks were built on Broagerland and around Nybøl Nor, and the area became the hub of the brick industry in Northern Europe. The bricks were made by the workers by hand in the so-called hand-drawing process. On a working day, a worker managed about 6,000 bricks. Often the whole family was busy in the brickworks. The work was not safe. You could burn yourself at the stove, fall into the clay pit or fall into the water while loading or unloading the ships and drown. The main work of the women and children was to turn over the stones that were left to dry in the open air. Often the brickworks were only in operation from April to October, since in the winter no clay could be dug in the frost. By 1890 brick production was at its peak and there were 39 brickworks. At Stranderød and Brændstoft are the ruins of two brickworks. Here is also a part of Gendarmstien occupied with red and yellow bricks. As the ice of the last ice age began to melt, it left huge ice lumps where the ice edge was. Eisseen were formed around these lumps of ice, in whose still water very fine and stone-free clay sediments were deposited. This clay has been the foundation of the flourishing brick industry on the Flensburg Fjord for centuries. Also on the peninsula Holnis there was a brickyard. There is only the factory villa, the brickyard has disappeared. Not so in Egernsund and Nybøl Nor. Egernsunder bricks are known all over the world today.