North Atlantic Brygge

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Nordatlantens Brygge on Strandgade in Christianshavn , Copenhagen
In front of the house the flags of Greenland , the Faroe Islands , North Atlantic Brygge , Denmark and Iceland (from left to right)

Nordatlantens Brygge is a former warehouse in the port area of Christianshavn in Copenhagen . Since 2003, the building has housed a cultural center called Nordatlantens Brygge , which focuses on contemporary art and culture from the Faroe Islands , Greenland and Iceland . Exhibitions, concerts, discussions, seminars and other events are organized there over the course of a year. Furthermore, the diplomatic missions of the three countries of the West Nordic Council , i.e. the Icelandic embassy as well as the missions of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, are housed in the memory . A number of companies and organizations related to the North Atlantic and the Arctic are also located in the building.

history

The place where the house is located, Den Grønlandske Handels Plads , is with neighboring Krøyers Plads on Bjørnholm Island , which was laid out in the 18th century. For more than 200 years, the place was the center of Danish trade with the Faroe Islands, Finnmark , Iceland and Greenland, where large quantities of whale and seals were drunk, but also stockfish , eiderdown , reindeer horn, salted lamb and cod , wool and knitting wool was traded. In 1747 the place was taken over by the trading company Det almindelige Handelskompagni , which traded with the countries mentioned. The company built the 6,700 m² warehouse in 1766–67 based on a design by Johan Christian Conradi , which was initially called Islandske Pakhus (Icelandic Warehouse ) and later Det Grønlandske Pakhus (The Greenlandic Warehouse ). In 1774 the site was taken over by Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel and in the early 1980s by the Danish customs and tax authorities Told & Skat .

On the initiative of the former director of the Danish Polar Center ( Dansk Polar Center ) , Morten Melgaard, and the former director of the Customs and Excise Department, Kaj Elkrog, 1997 was Committee for the Development of the North Atlantic Quays (Komiteen til Udviklingen af the Nordatlantiske Brygge) founded - together with the former Icelandic President Vigdís Finnbogadóttir . In the committee, representatives from Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Denmark coordinated the design of the building - in coordination with the individual countries, their governments, the København municipality and a large number of associations, museums, universities and other institutions. In 2000, the committee was replaced by the Nordatlantiske Brygge Foundation , whose management and board of directors now operate the cultural center. As chairman of the foundation, Finnbogadóttir organized the costs of 125 million Danish kroner , of which 45 million came from the Danish state, 20 million from the AP Møller Fund and 60 million from Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands. After the renovation of the storage facility, Nordatlantens Brygge was finally opened in November 2003.

In 2003, the Michelin-starred restaurant Noma opened on the ground floor and was named “Best Restaurant in the World” four times in a row by British Restaurant Magazine from 2010 to 2014. It closed there at the end of 2016. Reopening is planned for 2017 in the free city of Christiania .

Web links

Commons : Nordatlantens Brygge  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ KulturKlik: Nordatlantens Brygge ( Memento of the original from September 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 September 5, 2011 (Danish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturklik.dk
  2. ↑ a b c Peter Olesen: Peter Olesen viser rundtil 25 af Københavns GENBRUGTE HUSE . 1st edition. Thaning & Appel, Copenhagen 2009, ISBN 978-87-413-0088-7 , Nordatlantens Brygge, p. 18th ff . (Danish).
  3. ↑ Nordatlantens Brygge: Duften af ​​Nordatlanten , accessed on September 5, 2011 (Danish)
  4. ↑ a b Nordatlantens Brygge: Drømmen om et nordatlantisk kulturhus  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on September 5, 2011 (Danish)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.bryggen.dk  
  5. ↑ Danish "Noma" best restaurant in the world for the third time ( Memento from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In yesterday from May 1, 2012
  6. ↑ René Redzepi will temporarily close the Noma at the end of 2016. In: www.restaurant-ranglisten.de. September 15, 2015, accessed June 20, 2017 .

Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 39.7 "  N , 12 ° 35 ′ 47.7"  E