Kerteminde

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Kerteminde
Coat of arms of Kerteminde
Kerteminde (Denmark)
Kerteminde
Kerteminde
Basic data
State : DenmarkDenmark Denmark
Region : Syddanmark
Municipality
(since 2007) : 		Kerteminde
Coordinates : 55 ° 27 '  N , 10 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 27 '  N , 10 ° 39'  E
Population :
(2020) 		5,987
Postal code : 5300
Sister cities : Czech RepublicCzech Republic Rožnov pod Radhoštěm

EstoniaEstonia Loksa Lempäälä Forsand Øvre Eiker North Berwick Ulricehamn
FinlandFinland 
NorwayNorway 
NorwayNorway 
ScotlandScotland 
SwedenSweden 

Website: www.kerteminde.dk
Street with Danish half-timbered houses.
Street with Danish half-timbered houses.
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Johannes Larsen Museum in Kerteminde

Kerteminde [ kɛʀdəˈmenə ] is a Danish town in the municipality of Kerteminde and is located on the Great Belt on the Baltic Sea island of Funen , in the Syddanmark region . The population of the city was 5987 on January 1, 2020. The port city has Funen's largest fishing port with a fish auction market and fish factories.

Attractions

The landmark of Kerteminde is the granite sculpture "Amanda" by the sculptor Robert Lund-Jensen. The statue of a fisher girl was placed on the bridge over the Kerteminde Fjord in 1954. It refers to the popular Ulklied " Min Amanda var fra Kerteminde " ( Eng . My Amanda was from Kerteminde).

The Viking ship from Ladby was excavated in Kerteminde in the 1930s ; it can be viewed in a specially built museum in the Ladby district.

The marine research and experience center Fjord- og Bælt Centeret provides knowledge about the marine ecosystem . There are porpoises , seals and a sensing pool with crabs , flounder and other creatures.

The painter Johannes Larsen (1867–1961) came from Kerteminde and worked here. Thanks to the many guest rooms, his beautiful house from 1901 developed into a gathering point for painters, especially Fyn painters ( Fynbomalere ). The house now houses the Johannes Larsen Museet and was expanded in 2001.

Others

The writer Frederik Paludan-Müller was born in Kerteminde in 1809. The businessman and inspector of Greenland Arent Christopher Heilmann was born there as early as 1781 .

The sports boat yard “Folkebådcentralen” has been producing Nordic folk boats since 1977 . Instead of wood, fiberglass was used for the first time , enabling a renaissance of the classic boat type from 1942.

The village of Møllebakken next to Kerteminde is the artistic center of the Funen painters .

Town twinning

A partnership with the German city of Uslar, which had existed since 1985 , was dissolved in 2010 as a result of the Danish municipal reform.

sons and daughters of the town

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistics Banks -> Befolkning og valg -> BY1: Folketal January 1st efter byområde, alder og køn (Danish)
  2. ↑ Facta om Nordisk Folkebåd Dansk Folkebådsklub (Danish), accessed on July 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ Frank Schneider: Kerteminde terminates the partnership . In: Hessische / Niedersächsische Allgemeine, May 12, 2010. Accessed March 21, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Kerteminde  - collection of images, videos and audio files