St. Paul’s Church, Aarhus

St Paul's Church is a parish church in Aarhus, Denmark. It was completed in 1887 to a design by Vilhelm Theodor Walther in the Neo-Romanesque style.

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Type: Church
Denomination: Lutheran
Description: church building in Aarhus Municipality, Denmark
Also known as: “Skt. Pauls Kirke” and “St Paul’s Church”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Aarhus Central Station and Skanseparken.

Aarhus Central Station

Railway station

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Aarhus Central Station is the main railway station serving the city of Aarhus, Denmark. Serving as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between Aarhus and the rest of Denmark, the station is used by an average of 6.3 million people per year, making it the busiest station in Denmark outside the Copenhagen area. Aarhus Central Station is situated 410 metres north of St. Paul’s Church, Aarhus.

Skanseparken

Park

Skanseparken is one of the oldest parks in the city of Aarhus. It is situated in the neighborhood of Frederiksbjerg in Midtbyen. Skanseparken was constructed in the years 1901 to 1902 between the streets Strandvejen, Marselisborg Allé and Heibergsgade.

Town Hall

Town hall

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Aarhus City Hall is the city hall of Aarhus, Denmark. The decision to build a new city hall was taken during a city hall meeting in 1937. The new building was inaugurated 2 June 1941, designed by architects Arne Jacobsen and Erik Møller. Town Hall is situated 680 metres north of St. Paul’s Church, Aarhus.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Aarhus and Midtbyen.

Aarhus

Photo: Dmitri Popov, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Aarhus is the main city on the Jutland peninsula in Denmark. "City of Cafés" is a moniker the city wears with pride: its roster of coffeeshops exemplifies Aarhus' elegant mix of cosmopolitan city life and quaint small-town charm.

Midtbyen

Neighborhood

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Midtbyen, also known as Aarhus Center or City, is the inner part of Aarhus. Midtbyen is part of district Aarhus C, mainly with postal code 8000, together with Vesterbro, Nørre Stenbro Trøjborg and Frederiksbjerg and has a population of around 90000.

Langenæs

Quarter

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Langenæs is a small neighborhood in the city of Aarhus, Denmark with about 6,500 residents, as of 2014. The neighborhood is part of the district Midtbyen and borders the neighborhoods of Frederiksbjerg and Marselisborg to the East and the district of Viby to the South.

St. Paul’s Church, Aarhus

Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
Location: Aarhus Municipality, Central Jutland, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude

56.14602° or 56° 8′ 46″ north

Longitude

10.20392° or 10° 12′ 14″ east

Elevation

24 metres (79 feet)

Levels

Wheelchair access

limited

Named after

Paul the Apostle

Open location code

9F8G46W3+CH

OpenStreetMap ID

way 51264500

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=place_of_worship

OpenStreetMap feature

building=church

OpenStreetMap attribute

denomination=lutheran

GeoNames ID

6940276

Wikidata ID

Q2648325

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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“St. Paul’s Church, Aarhus” goes by many names.

Danish: “Sankt Pauls Kirke”
German: “Sankt Pauls Kirche”
German: “Sankt Pauls Kirke (Aarhus)”
Swedish: “Sankt Pauls kyrka”

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