Lurblæserne - Copenhagan, Denmark
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N 55° 40.562 E 012° 34.211
33U E 347208 N 6172699
A large freestanding column in City Hall Square in downtown Copenhagen.
Waymark Code: WMX2JC
Location: Denmark
Date Posted: 11/17/2017
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Taken from Wikipedia, translated via google, "The trumpeters are a monument at Rådhuspladsen in Copenhagen , which represents two trumpeters (made in bronze ) placed on a column (of bricks ). The two blowers are made in bronze , while the column is made of bricks . The total height is approx. 20 meters.
It was carried out 1911-1914 by Siegfried Wagner and the Anton Rosen (Pillar), funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and the New Carlsberg Foundation as a gift to the City of Copenhagen in the course of the 100th anniversary of breeding JC Jacobsen's birth. On the socket there is the inscription " JC JACOBSEN • CARLSBERG 1811 • 2 • SEPTEMBER • 1911 ".
The idea of ??a trumpet blower on Rådhuspladsen came from Lorenz Frølich around 1890 and a test show with such a figure was made in 1901 in front of the Central Hotel . It was a wooden pillar with a statue of a single trumpet blower made by Anders Bundgaard . The column was designed by Martin Nyrop , who imagined two columns flanking the driveway to Rådhuspladsen from Vesterbrogade. The change from one fool to two came quite late in the course of the work on the final monument, which led to the two figures being somewhat tight on the column. It gave them the name of "stacked mackerel" in popular terms.
The blowers should say blowing in their horns when a virgin passes them."
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