[1][2][3] It was opened in 1943 by a Workers' Cooperative Housing Association in Emdrupvej (or Emdrup), near Copenhagen, Denmark, during the German occupation of the 1940s.
It grew out of a broader Danish resistance to Nazi occupation[4] and parents' fears that "their children's play might be mistaken for acts of sabotage by soldiers.
Their proposal was ultimately rejected, but has provided scholars of play with insight into the historical context from which the Emdrup playground emerged.
Access to all building sites is forbidden to unauthorized persons, there are no trees where the children can climb and play Tarzan.
[10] Marjory Allen, an English landscape architect and child welfare advocate, visited the Emdrup Junk Playground in 1946 for a few hours and wrote a widely-read article about the Emdrup Adventure playground titled Why Not Use Our Bomb Sites Like This?, which was published in Picture Post that year.
[11] Periodic efforts to segregate children by age and to transform the skrammellegepladsen into a conventional playground have met with opposition from play advocates.