Liberty Column

The Liberty Column is a 20-meter-tall obelisk located in front of Central Station in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was erected in memory of the peasant reforms of 1788 which led to the abolition of stavnsbåndet, a form of serfdom in Denmark.

Type: Monument
Description: Obelisk in Copenhagen, Denmark
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: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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 Column.

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 Column.

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.

Postbyen

Neighborhood

Photo: Dannebrog Spy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Postbyen is a neighborhood.

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, making it a very attractive place to live. It includes the districts of Sydhavnen. Enghave, Valby and Vanløse.

Liberty Column

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″ north

Longitude

12.56329° or 12° 33′ 48″ east

Inception

1797

Open location code

9F7JMHF7+M8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 27226058

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

Wikidata ID

Q3441954

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“Liberty Column” 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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