Bathing cabins destroyed in the storm: “Immense devastation”

The bathing cabins in Ljunghusen on Falsterbonäset were thrown around, overturned or completely destroyed when the storm Babet passed by during the night.

– We have never experienced this devastation. It’s sad, very sad, says Agneta Neumann, chairman of Badhytternas vänner.

During the night, the storm Babet swept across southern Sweden with full force. One of the hard-hit areas is Ljunghusen on Falsterbonäset in Skåne, where many beach huts were thrown around, overturned or destroyed in the storm.

Great devastation

Agneta Neumann, a resident of the area and president of the Badhytternas vänner association, was on site on Saturday morning to inspect the damage. She describes how bathhouses were “bubbling over noise” on the beach and in the forest, while many people were walking around and taking photographs.

– We have never experienced this devastation, that the sea has eaten up the bathhouses like that, and also the jetty, she says and adds:

– You get sad when you see it. We have a wonderful beach down here and the string of pearls with these white cabanas. It’s a piece of history.

Dangerously close to the beach

Within the association there are 313 white bathhouses with arched roofs located in three areas, so-called parcels. The worst affected is the shift that goes towards Ljunghusen’s golf course, says Agneta Neumann.

– The devastation there is enormous. There aren’t many cabins left in their current condition, maybe 15, but they are so dangerously close to the shore that in the event of another storm they will also go into the water, she says.

At the same time, she highlights that fortunately no one was injured, but that it is a matter of material damage.

– But it is a piece of culture that is disappearing because the cabins have been here since the beginning of the 30s. That’s what feels so sad.