Light box with Signal mast in the background
Starling Boxes—An Old Tradition Revived
Today in Agger you can see a very special version of a starling box. It's not the one you normally see with four walls and a roof. Like so much else in Agger, you do things your own way.
In the early days of fishing, buoys with flags were used at sea in the fjord so that you could see where you had set your nets. The buoys consisted of a wooden barrel, made in the old-fashioned cooper's way. The barrel had a conical shape so it could sway in the wind and waves, and at some point, they would wear out, become brittle or just leak.
Agger has a large number of starlings every year and clever minds came up with the idea of using the old barrels from the buoys as starling boxes. They simply turned them upside down and drilled holes in them, put them on a pole and planted them in the ground. This is how a starling box of unusual architecture was born.
Around 2014, an "urban renewal group" in Agger decided that this tradition should be continued and began to produce, paint and sell new starling boxes, which were subject to the rule that they could only be installed in Agger. In other words, they could not be sold to anyone who wanted to take them to other towns.
Now you can see the special starling boxes around the city to both commemorate and honor fishing.
In the photos and video you can see the Urban Renewal team painting the many star boxes.
