Liberty Memorial, Copenhagen
The Liberty Memorial, located in front of Central Station in Copenhagen, Denmark, is a 20-meter-tall obelisque erected in memory of the peasant reforms in 1788 which led to the abolition of serfdom.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monument
- Description: Obelisk in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Also known as: “Liberty Column”
- Inscription: “På støtten står på østsiden: Citat Kongen kiendte at Borgerfriehed bestemt ved retfærdig Lov giver Kierlighed til Fædreland mod til dets Værn lyst til Kundskab Attraae til Flid Haab om Held Citat På vestsiden: Citat Kongen bød Stavnsbaandet skal ophøre La”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Copenhagen Central Station and Tivoli Gardens.
Copenhagen Central Station
Railway station
Photo: Klockarnils, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Copenhagen Central Station is the main railway station in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the largest railway station in Denmark. With more than 100,000 travellers every day, it is the second busiest station in Denmark after Nørreport station. Copenhagen Central Station is situated 200 metres southeast of Liberty Memorial, Copenhagen.
Tivoli Gardens
Theme park
Photo: Elgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tivoli Gardens, also known simply as Tivoli, is an amusement park and pleasure garden in Copenhagen, Denmark. The park opened on 15 August 1843 and is the second-oldest operating amusement park in the world, after Dyrehavsbakken in nearby Klampenborg, also in Denmark. Tivoli Gardens is situated 340 metres east of Liberty Memorial, Copenhagen.
Radisson Collection Royal Hotel
Hotel
Photo: seier seier, CC BY 2.0.
The Radisson Collection Royal Hotel, Copenhagen is a historic hotel in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Postbyen and Meatpacking District.
Meatpacking District
Suburb
Photo: Riemann, Public domain.
Kødbyen is a district of Vesterbro in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is situated between the railway lines going into Copenhagen Central Station and Sønder Boulevard.
Vesterbro
Photo: Dannebrog Spy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vesterbro is just outside Copenhagen’s city centre )the Inner City or Indre By), making it a very attractive place to live. It includes the districts of Sydhavnen.
Liberty Memorial, Copenhagen
- Categories: obelisk, building, and historic site
- Location: Vesterbro-Kongens Enghave, Copenhagen municipality, Capital Region, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
55.6742° or 55° 40′ 27″ northLongitude
12.56329° or 12° 33′ 48″ eastInception
1797Open location code
9F7JMHF7+M8OpenStreetMap ID
way 27226058OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q3441954
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Liberty Memorial, Copenhagen” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Frihedsstøtten”
- French: “colonne de la liberté”
- French: “Colonne de la liberté”
- German: “Freiheitsdenkmal”
- Icelandic: “Frelsisstyttan í Kaupmannahöfn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Frihetsstøtten”
- Norwegian: “Frihetsstøtten”
- Swedish: “Frihedsstøtten”
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Highlights include Panoptikonbygningen and Buen.
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