Knippelsbro
Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 29 ″ N , 12 ° 35 ′ 13 ″ E
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| use | four-lane road bridge , bike path, footpath | |
| Crossing of | Inderhavnen , Copenhagen harbor | |
| construction | Bascule bridge / seesaw bridge | |
| overall length | 115 m | |
| width | 27.4 m | |
| Clear width | 35 m | |
| Headroom | 5.4 m, bascule bridge | |
| vehicles per day | 30,300 (as of 1998) | |
| start of building | 1935 | |
| completion | 1937 | |
| opening | December 17, 1937 | |
| planner | Kaj Gottlob (architect) | |
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Knippelsbro [ ˈknebəlsbʀoːʔ ] is a four-lane road bridge in Copenhagen , which leads over the Inderhavnen (inner harbor) and connects the Christianshavn district with the city center of Copenhagen ( Indre By ). It is a 115-meter-long and around 27-meter-wide bascule bridge that can be opened for shipping from the bridge tower if necessary, but this rarely happens because the port activities have shifted to other areas.
The bridge is the motif on the new 200 kroner banknotes that have been in circulation since October 2010. The banknote, drawn by the artist Karin Birgitte Lund, is part of a series published from 2009 to 2011 that, among other things, has Danish bridges as a theme.
history
The first bridge at this point was built between 1618 and 1620 under Christian IV . It is named after the bridge keeper Hans Knip, who took up his duties in 1648, and was called Knippensbro until the 19th century . Successor buildings were an 86-meter-long iron bridge from 1869 and the Møllers bro from 1908. Because the latter could not keep up with the increasing volume of traffic at the beginning of the 1920s, it was decided to build a new bridge - the current one December 1937 was inaugurated.
In Bille August 's film Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee (1997) , the bridge is the starting point for the plot in an opening scene . She also has a brief appearance in the 1974 film The (Probably) Last Prank of the Olsen Gang .
On December 12th, 2009 the bridge was the platform for a protest against the Copenhagen climate summit .
See also
Web links
- Portræt af Knippelsbro . In Highwys.dk (Danish)
- List of literature by Knippelsbro at the Danish Road and Bridge Museum (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Knippelsbro. In: Structurae
- ↑ a b c Vejdirektoratet : Den første bro over Københavns inderhavn ( Memento of the original of July 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on December 16, 2011 (Danish)
- ↑ a b c Lars Bugge: Kort and godt om danske broer . 2nd Edition. Aschehoug Dansk Forlag A / S, Copenhagen 2000, ISBN 87-11-16234-1 , Knippelsbro, p. 24 ff . (Danish).
- ↑ Erik Johannesen: Danmarks broer . 1st edition. Borgens Forlag, Copenhagen-Valby 1994, ISBN 87-418-0153-9 , Knippelsbro, p. 97 ff . (Danish).
- ↑ The Store Danske : Kaj Gottlob , accessed on December 16, 2011 (Danish)
- ↑ Henrik Lange: Portræt af Knippelsbro ( Memento of the original dated August 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In Highways.dk , accessed December 16, 2011 (Danish)
- ↑ national banks : Danske pengesedler series 2009-2011 ( Memento of 5 November 2006 at the Internet Archive ) retrieved (Danish) on September 22, 2012
- ^ Climate summit: Folk festival atmosphere in "Hopenhagen". Spiegel online, accessed December 13, 2009 .
