Monumenter i Ribe

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Overalt i Ribe findes monumenter der vidner om historiske og lærde ripensere. En stor del af byens smukke bygninger kan kædes sammen med berømte personer og perioder i byens tusindårige historier, hvilket de mange mindetavler vidner om.

Bronzebuster

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Buste af journalist and photographer Jacob A. Riis i Ribe
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Buste af journalist and photographer Jacob A. Riis i Ribe

Journalist, social reformist and documentary photographer Jacob A. Riis, who was called "New York's Most Useful Citizen" by President Roosevelt.

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Bronze bust of politician H. A. Krüger in Ribe
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Bronze bust of politician H. A. Krüger in Ribe

The story of politician Hans Andersen Krüger is the story of being Slesviger, Sønderjyde and Danes.

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Memorial to historian Anders Sørensen Vedel in Ribe
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Memorial to historian Anders Sørensen Vedel in Ribe

Commemorating the historian Anders Sørensen Vedel 1542-1616.

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Gravmæle

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Cenotaph for Poet Ambrosius Stub in Ribe
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Cenotaph for Poet Ambrosius Stub in Ribe

Ambrosius Stub was a Danish poet and lived in Ribe from 1752 to 1758.

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Mindesmærke

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Memorial to poet Anders Christensen Bording in Ribe
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Memorial to poet Anders Christensen Bording in Ribe

Anders Christensen Bording He was a Danish poet and journalist. He was born in Ribe on the 21st of January 1619.

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Memorial to dramatist and author Kjeld Abell in Ribe
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Memorial to dramatist and author Kjeld Abell in Ribe

Kjeld Abell was a known dramatist and writer. He was born in Ribe the 25th of August 1901.

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Memorial to Jens Olsen - watchmaker and astromechanic in Ribe
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Memorial to Jens Olsen - watchmaker and astromechanic in Ribe

Plaque commemorating Jens Olsen who built the famous world clock in Copenhagen City Hall.

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Memorial to composer Oluf Ring in Ribe
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Memorial to composer Oluf Ring in Ribe

Oluf Ring - known composer. Born in Jelling the 24th of December 1884. In 1901 he decided to study to become a teacher and in 1905 he graduated.

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Memorial to composer Rued Langgaard in Ribe
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Memorial to composer Rued Langgaard in Ribe

A memorial in Ribe of the composer Rued Langgaard, born in Copenhagen on July 28, 1893.

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Memorial to Maren Spliid in Ribe
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Memorial to Maren Spliid in Ribe

In Sønderportsgade 3, where Tailor Laurids Spliid and his wife Maren lived, one can see today the memorial plaque for Maren Spliid.

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Memorial to the scientist Emil Christian Hansen in Ribe
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Memorial to the scientist Emil Christian Hansen in Ribe

Emil Christian Hansen was one of Denmark's greatest scientists, Emil Christian Hansen, was born in 1842 in a house on Nederdammen 35 in Ribe.

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Memorial to Professor Niels Ryberg Finsen in Ribe
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Memorial to Professor Niels Ryberg Finsen in Ribe

In 1903, Niels Ryberg Finsen received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his treatment of lupus vulgaris (skin tuberculosis) with light.

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Mindesten

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Memorial to the fallen from Schleswig Wars in Ribe
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Memorial to the fallen from Schleswig Wars in Ribe

Ribe and the Schleswig Wars in southern Jutland 1848-50 and 1864.

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Memorial to the fallen from World War II in Ribe
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Memorial to the fallen from World War II in Ribe

Memorial to the fallen from World War II in Ribe

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Memorial to the prefekt Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke in Ribe
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Memorial to the prefekt Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke in Ribe

Memorial stone for the lord and prefekt of Ribe, Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke

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Skulptur

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Sculpture The Yeast Girl in Ribe
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Sculpture The Yeast Girl in Ribe

Monument donated by The Wahl-Henius Institute, Chicago commemorating the yeast physiologist Emil Christian Hansen

 

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Bronze sculpture The Tooth of Time in Ribe
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Bronze sculpture The Tooth of Time in Ribe

In front of the Viking Museum an enormous sculpture made in bronze has been created by a well-known Danish artist John Olsen, born 1938.

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Ansgar - sculpture at Ribe Cathedral
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Ansgar - sculpture at Ribe Cathedral

Ansgar was the missionary bishop who built the first Danish church, precisely in Ribe around the year 860, on the highest point in the area where he was allowed by King Horik to build a church and let...

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Fountain Sct. Catharinæ Brønd in Ribe
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Fountain Sct. Catharinæ Brønd in Ribe

The monument, designed by Anders Bundgaard (1864-1937) in granite and bronze, was raised in 1929 after the laying out of St Catherine Place.

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Statue

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Statue of Bishop Hans Adolf Brorson in Ribe
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Statue of Bishop Hans Adolf Brorson in Ribe

August Saabyes bronze statue of Hans Adolf Brorson, 1895.

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Statue of Queen Dagmar in Ribe
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Statue of Queen Dagmar in Ribe

Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen's statue of Queen Dagmar, 1913, the statue stands on Slotsbanken in Ribe.

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Statue of Bishop Hans Tausen in Ribe
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Statue of Bishop Hans Tausen in Ribe

Johannes Bjerg's Statue of the Theologian Hans Tausen, 1942.

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Stormflodssøjle

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Flood Column in Ribe
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Flood Column in Ribe

The flood column was erected 14th November 1922 and is an impressive oak pole with bronze rings and with its gilded "hat" it could look like a mooring pole for gondolas in Venice.

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Flood column on Mandø
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Flood column on Mandø

The storm surge column stands on the road through the dunes past the rescue station down to the sea. It tells of Mandø's close contact with the not always peaceful Wadden Sea.

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