Helgoland Island
Helgoland (German: Heligoland, Heligolandic Frisian deät Lun “the Land”) is a small German archipelago in the North Sea. Formerly Danish and British possessions, the islands (population 1,127) are located in the Heligoland Bight (part of the German Bight) in the southeastern corner of the North Sea. These islands are the only German islands not in the […]
City of Drammen
Scandinavia tour year 1891 (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). Year 1891. Drammen is a city in Buskerud County, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen is the capital of Buskerud County. City of Drammen. Location There are more than 63 000 inhabitants […]
City of Halmstad
Scandinavia tour year 1891 (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). Year 1891. Halmstad is a port, university, industrial and recreational city at the mouth of Nissan in the province of Halland on the Swedish west coast. Halmstad is the seat of Halmstad Municipality and the capital of Halland County. The city had a population of 62,797 in […]
Kronborg castle
Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark. Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Kronborg is one of the most important Renaissance castles in Northern Europe and has been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites list (2000). Year 1891. Kronborg castle, Helsingor. The castle is situated on the extreme northeastern […]
Thorvaldsen museum
The Thorvaldsen Museum is a single-artist museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, dedicated to the art of Danish neoclassicistic sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), who lived and worked in Rome for most of his life (1796-1838). The museum is located on the small island of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen next to Christiansborg Palace. Designed by Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, […]
City of Korsor
Year 1891. Scandinavia tour year 1891 (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). Korsør is a Danish town and port. It is out on the Great Belt, on the Zealand side, just south of where the Great Belt Bridge lands. It was the site of the municipal council of Korsør municipality – today it is part of Slagelse […]
City of Kiel
Year 1891. 04-08-1891 and 05-08-1891. Scandinavia tour year 1891 (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 240,832 (June 2014). Kiel lies approximately 90 kilometres (56 mi) north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the […]
City of Helsingborg
Scandinavia tour year 1891 (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). Year 1891. City of Helsingborg. Helsingborg is one of the oldest cities of what is now Sweden. It has been the site of permanent settlement officially since 21 May 1085. Helsingborg’s geographical position at the narrowest part of Øresund made it very important for Denmark, at that […]
City of Helsingor
Year 1891. Scandinavia tour year 1891 (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Denmark). Helsingør, also known in English as Elsinore, is a city and the municipal seat of Helsingør Municipality on the northeast coast of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. Helsingør has a population of 46,492 (1 January 2015) including the southern suburbs of Snekkersten and […]