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2 unusual facts about Christiansborg Palace


Christiansborg Palace

According to the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, Bishop Absalon of Roskilde built a castle in 1167 on a small island outside Copenhagen Harbour.

Gammel Strand Station

Additionally, it will provide access to the central section of Strøget, Slotsholmen, Christiansborg Palace and Højbro Plads.


Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen

In the Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen on 20 January 1757, five months after the death of his first wife, Ernst Frederick was married for the second time to Christiane Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

Hans Peder Pedersen-Dan

He also designed a monument to Danish volunteers in World War I in Rueil-Malmaison in France and the four statues of queens of the Queens Gate at the new Christiansborg Palace.

Slotsholmen

The island is dominated by the vast Christiansborg Palace which houses the Danish Parliament, the Supreme Court of Denmark, the Prime Minister's Office and the State Rooms of the Queen.

Supreme Court of Denmark

It was based at first Copenhagen Castle later Christiansborg Palace, which was built in its place on the same site at Slotsholmen, and originally consisted of 30 justices.

Suste Bonnén

She is particularly known for her underwater sculpture group Agnete and the Merman, which is placed at the bottom of the Frederiksholm canal in Copenhagen adjourning parliament Christiansborg Palace.


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Supreme Court of Denmark

After the fire of the second Christianborg Palace in 1884 the Supreme Court had to move once again and was vased at Bernstorffs Palæ in Bredgade until 1919 when it could move back to the present Christiansborg Palace.