Royal Danish Armory Museum
The Royal Danish Armory Museum ( Danish : Tøjhusmuseet ) is a museum for historical weapons in Copenhagen .
history
The Armory Museum was named after the building in which it is located, the Royal Armory in Copenhagen. It was built in the years 1598–1604 by King Christian IV . Originally it served exclusively as the arsenal of the Danish army, but since the reign of Frederick III. in the arsenal also were trophies stored and collected weapons that were unusual, remarkably interesting or otherwise.
A real weapons museum was only created in 1838 when it was merged with the Royal Particle Armory , the result of which was the Historical Weapons Collection ( Historiske Vaabensamling ).
Since then the collection has been continuously expanded. In 1845, for example, it received historical cannons and in 1852 the holdings of the Gottorf armory. Numerous other pieces were added through purchases, exchanges, finds, gifts or transfers by the Danish armed forces.
In 1928 the Historical Weapons Collection became an independent institution under the current name of Tøjhusmuseet . The Zeughausmuseum has had unlimited right of disposal over the entire arsenal complex since 1938.
collection
The stocks of the armory museum comprise about 350 historical guns, mortars and howitzers and artillery -Ausrüstungsgegenstände and approximately 7000 handguns , slashing , puncture , impact , and thrust weapons from the year 1300 to the most recent time. The collection also includes the Vedelspang rifle , the oldest known Danish firearm.
Albert Bellingk's cannon from 1687 in Tøjhusmuseet
Detail with portrait of Christian V. Pietate et Justitia Ao 1687
Detail Albert Benningk me fecit
building
The outer length of the armory is 163 meters, the width 24 meters and the height to the roof ridge 27 meters. The ground floor is formed by the cannon hall , which is Europe's longest vaulted hall and whose cross vaults are supported by 16 mighty central pillars. The collection also includes pieces by well-known North German foundries such as Matthias Benningk or the Lübeck council founder Albert Benningk , who cast several twelve-pounders for King Christian V in Copenhagen in 1687 , which can be seen today as part of the royal weapons collection in the artillery exhibition in the Tøjhusmuseet arsenal.
The first floor also consists of a single room, the weapons room . The towering roof structure houses three extensive attic floors.
In front of the building stood the ( Idstedt lion ), which Herman Wilhelm Bissen had created as a memorial for the Danish victory in the battle of Idstedt . In 2011 the lion returned to its place of origin in Flensburg.
Web links
Printed source
- Tøjhusmuseet - Billed catalog for permanent udstilling. Copenhagen 1979
Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 27.5 " N , 12 ° 34 ′ 48.7" E