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Bust of N.F.S. Grundtvig

A number of busts of Danish cultural personalities whom Queen Caroline Amalie admired are on display in The Gothic Library.

N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872) is Denmark’s best-loved writer of psalms and founded the folk high school movement, which took bourgeois culture out to the rural population. Grundtvig was, furthermore, an important figure in the national movement and was his whole life fervently preoccupied by the question of what it means to be Danish. The Queen was one of the country’s more prominent ‘Grundtvigians’ and therefore had a bust of the poet priest. Corresponding busts of Adam Oehlenschläger, B.S. Ingemann, J.P. Mynster, and A.S. Ørsted are found in the library.

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Dannebrog flag from 1864

At the so-called Reunification with Southern Jutland in 1920, Christian X received this banner in remembrance of the military defeat to Prussia and Austria in 1864.

Caroline Amalie, 1879

Queen Caroline Amalie, painted by H.C. Jensen, 1879.

Caroline Amalie

Caroline Amalie became Queen of Denmark in 1839. She was the daughter of Duke Friedrich Christian of Augustenborg and Princess Louise Augusta. In 1815 she married Prince Christian Frederik, later King Christian VIII.

Dolphin door handles

Handles found on the inner side of the doors in The Pompeian Chamber.

Coffered ceiling

The coffered ceiling in The Blue Cabinet was gilded following Hereditary Prince Frederik's assumption of the palace.

Poems by Hans Christian Andersen

Blandt materialet i Enkedronning Caroline Amalies bibliotek findes nogle kapsler indeholdende småtryk og originale digte m.m. af flere af tidens digtere, H.C. Andersen, Carsten Hauch, Adam Oehlenschläger, H.P. Holst og B.S. Ingemann.

Sten fra Dannevirke

Ogier the Dane, 1896

The original bronze statue of Ogier the Dane, produced by Hans Peder Pedersen-Dan in 1896.