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unusual facts about Church of Our Saviour, Esbjerg



1868 in Denmark

24 April – A law is adopted providing for the construction of a new port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour.

Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen

The French painter and illustrator Édouard Riou has depicted the church in the original French illustrated version of A Journey to the Center of the Earth, but has the spire turned the wrong way around, that is, clockwise instead of anticlockwise.

The Church of Our Saviour in Christianshavn appears in a chapter of Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Church of Our Saviour, Esbjerg

In 1929, the church was decorated with frescos by Ole Søndergaard: the Paschal Lamb on the apse vault, Jesus blessing the children on the north wall, the Return of the Prodigal Son on the south wall and the Crucifixion on the chancel arch with groups of people on either side.

Church of Our Saviour, Singapore

To project a scientific basis for its beliefs on homosexuality, Church of Our Saviour, in November 2007, includes in its website a self-prepared document, which is a summation of various documents that speak against homosexuality as being a genetic trait.

Dove Bradshaw

She has curated four group exhibitions in memory of Sol LeWitt, ONE at Bjorn Ressle Gallery, New York, 2007, ONE More at the Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark, 2008 which was rebuilt for Thomas Rehbein Gallery, Cologne in January, 2009 and ONE, Six Americans/Six Danes Stalke Up North, Copenhagen, 2009.

EBJ

Esbjerg Airport (IATA code: EBJ), a small airport located 5 nautical miles northeast of Esbjerg, Denmark

EFB

EfB Ishockey, a Danish professional Ice hockey team located in Esbjerg

EfB Ishockey

Until 2004 the team played under the name of E.I.K. (Esbjerg Ishockey Klub), but due to financial instability at the club, the professional license was transferred to Esbjerg fB which is a Danish football team currently playing in the Danish Superliga which is the top football league in Denmark.

Kasper Køhlert

Køhlert began his career with local side Esbjerg, he spent his youth years there before joining Varde IF.

Martin Jensen

Martin S. Jensen (born 1973), Danish footballer (Esbjerg, Odense, Aalborg)

Mick van Buren

During his time with SBV Excelsior, he managed to score 13 goals in 27 caps in the Dutch Eerste Divisie, which then caught the attention of Esbjerg fB, where he on 4 July 2013 became new manager Niels Frederiksen's first signing.

Nørreport Station

Located in fare zone 1, it serves lines M1 and M2 of the Metro, most S-train lines, regional trains to Helsingør, intercity trains to Esbjerg and international trains to Malmö and Gothenburg, Sweden, and trains to other places, but not express trains.

Patti Lank

In 2011, Lank and her new team went through the 2011 US Nationals round robin with an 8-1 record, and defeated Allison Pottinger in the final to win the nationals and represent the US at the 2011 Worlds in Esbjerg, Denmark.

Svend Wiig Hansen

The gigantic group sculpture of Mennesket ved havet (Men at Sea, (1994) near Esbjerg is inspired by Cycladic art and the figures on Easter Island.

Swedish Social Democratic Youth League

In 2006, Anna Sjödin was re-elected Vice-President of the International Union of Socialist Youth Congress in Esbjerg.

Tjæreborg

Tjæreborg, Denmark, a village on the west coast of Denmark, about 9 km east of Esbjerg


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