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Præstø
Præstø () is a town with a population of 3,857 (1 January 2022) in Vordingborg Municipality in Region Sjælland on the east coast of the island of Zealand (''Sjælland''). The islands of '' Maderne'', ''Storeholm'', and ''Lilleholm'' are part of the Præstø Fjord Wildlife reserves (''Præstø Fjord Vildtreservat''). Præstø was the seat of the former Præstø municipality (Danish, '' kommune''). As of January 1, 2007, Præstø municipality ceased to exist as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Langebæk, Møn, and Vordingborg municipalities to form an enlarged Vordingborg municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 615 km2 and a total population of 46,307 (2005). The municipality belongs to the new Region Sjælland ("Zealand Region"). The former Prøstø municipality covered an area of 107 km2, and had a total population of 7,608 (2005). Its last mayor was Ole Møller Madsen, a member of the Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Præstø Fjord
Præstø () is a town with a population of 3,857 (1 January 2022) in Vordingborg Municipality in Region Sjælland on the east coast of the island of Zealand (''Sjælland''). The islands of '' Maderne'', ''Storeholm'', and ''Lilleholm'' are part of the Præstø Fjord Wildlife reserves (''Præstø Fjord Vildtreservat''). Præstø was the seat of the former Præstø municipality (Danish, '' kommune''). As of January 1, 2007, Præstø municipality ceased to exist as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipality Reform" of 2007). It was merged with Langebæk, Møn, and Vordingborg municipalities to form an enlarged Vordingborg municipality. This created a municipality with an area of 615 km2 and a total population of 46,307 (2005). The municipality belongs to the new Region Sjælland ("Zealand Region"). The former Prøstø municipality covered an area of 107 km2, and had a total population of 7,608 (2005). Its last mayor was Ole Møller Madsen, a member of the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokai University Boarding School In Denmark
Tokai University Boarding School in Denmark (TUBS; 東海大学付属デンマーク校中学部・高等部 ''Tōkai Daigaku Fuzoku Denmāku Kō Chūgakubu Kōtōbu'') was a Japanese international school in Præstø, Denmark. It was affiliated with Tokai University.Tokai University Boarding School in Denmark (Senior High Divisions) . . Retrieved on March 1, 2015. "Address: Evensoe lundvej5,4720 Praestoe, DANMARK" and had junior high school and senior high school students. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nysø Manor
Nysø Manor, located near Præstø in the southeast of the Danish island of Sealand, was built in 1673 for Jens Lauridsen, a local functionary. It now houses the Thorvaldsen Collection, a group of works by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, who lived and worked there in his later years. Architecture The first manor house in Denmark to be designed in the Baroque style, it is built in red brick and sandstone with a red-tiled roof and a granite plinth as a foundation. It is thought to be the work of master builder Ewert Janssen who probably also built Charlottenborg Palace in Copenhagen shortly afterwards. The house consists of a main wing with 11 bays and lateral wings to the north with an entrance in between. The central projects on the north and south sides are decorated with four Ionic pilasters which support triangular pediments. On the north side, there is a clock with two figures whose bells strike the hour. Situation A moat originally encircled the entire building but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Worm
Pauline Frederikke Worm (1825–1883) was a Danish writer, poet, schoolteacher and feminist. She is remembered as being the first Danish woman to speak in public (from 1864). She expressed her ideas on women's emancipation in her writings and speeches and fought for better opportunities for women's education. Biography Worm was born on 29 November 1825 in Hyllested near Randers, the daughter of Theodora Petrine Hjort (1800–81) and Peter Worm (1788–1865), the parish priest who was an ardent, politically minded patriot. He educated Pauline and her two younger sisters while his wife took care of the rectory. When she was only nine, she tried to persuade her uncle, the politician Lauritz la Cour, to have the law changed so that women could vote. In 1838, Worm was sent to the girls school in Randers where she stayed on to be a teacher. From 1847, she worked as a private tutor in Præstø. When Frederick VII came to the throne in 1848, she wrote a patriotic poem of praise for hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poul Thomsen
Poul Thomsen (15 February 1922 – 16 December 1988) was a Danish film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1944 and 1985. He was born in Præstø, Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark ... and died in Denmark. Selected filmography * ''Otte akkorder'' - 1944 * ''Lejlighed til leje'' - 1949 * ''Vores fjerde far'' - 1951 * ''Far til fire (film), Far til fire'' - 1953 * ''Spion 503'' - 1958 * ''Styrmand Karlsen'' - 1958 * ''Helle for Helene'' - 1959 * ''Forelsket i København'' - 1960 * ''Skibet er ladet med'' - 1960 * ''Komtessen'' - 1961 * ''Reptilicus'' - 1961 * ''Ullabella'' - 1961 * ''Venus fra Vestø'' - 1962 * ''Den kære familie'' - 1962 * ''Duellen'' - 1962 * ''Bussen (film), Bussen'' - 1963 * ''Majorens oppasser'' - 1964 * ''Slap af, Frede'' - 1966 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vordingborg Municipality
Vordingborg () is a municipality ('' kommune'') in the Sjælland Region, which is on the southeast coast of the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in south Denmark. It was established in 2007. The municipality covers an area of 621 km2. It has a total population of 46,600 (2006). Its fourth and current mayor is Mikael Smed of the Social Democrats, who was elected in 2017, replacing Michael Seiding Larsen of the agrarian-liberal Venstre party. The municipality takes its name from the town of the same name. Overview The Masnedsund Bridge connects the town of Vordingborg to the island of Masnedø. The Storstrøm Bridge connects Masnedø to the neighboring municipality of Guldborgsund on Falster near the town of Orehoved. The bridge is 3,199 meters long and supports two lanes of traffic and a single-track railway. It was inaugurated in 1937. The Farø Bridges (The Farø High Bridge and the Farø Low Bridge) opened in 1985 and connect the two municipalities from the town of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenvo Automotive
Zenvo Automotive is a Danish sports car manufacturer located in Præstø on the Danish island of Zealand. It was founded by Troels Vollertsen, and the name 'Zenvo' is derived from a combination of the last four and first two letters in his last name. Zenvo Automotive was founded in 2004. The first prototype of what became the Zenvo ST1 was completed in December 2008 and production began in 2009. Only 15 Zenvo ST1 cars were built and sold. In April 2018, ''Bil Magasinet'' reported that despite Zenvo's feelings that their cars were too expensive for the home market, for the first time a Zenvo was sold to a Danish customer. It was a red Zenvo TSR-S, sold for DKK 10.5 million (US$1.65 million). Models * Zenvo ST1 (2009-2016) 15 units * Zenvo TS1 (2016–present) 5 units planned per year * Zenvo TS1 GT (2016–present) Road-going grand tourer * Zenvo TSR (2016–present) Track-only sports car * Zenvo TSR-S (2018–present) Road-legal version of the TSR * Zenvo TSR-GT (2022-present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knud Olsen
Knud Olsen (1919 in Præstø – 31 August 2010 in Bandholm) was a Danish builder and designer of boats, who designed one of the most popular sailing dinghies in use over the past 50 years, the OK (dinghy), OK Dinghy, which became an International Sailing Federation, ISAF International Class in 1974. Olsen went on to design sailboats built in the town of Bandholm under that name. The Bandholm boats were built between 20 and 35 feet long starting in 1961 and until the builders went under in the late 80s. Biography Olsen was born in 1919 in Præstø, Denmark. In 1939, he and his brother, Bjørn, formed a boatbuilding business and designed and built several boats until a shortage of boatbuilding material caused by World War II ended the business. In the early 1950s, he joined the Danish company, A. P. Botved, who were producing speedboats, and worked there until he started his own business in Bandholm in 1961. He designed and built a number of boats including the Bandholm 26, the Bia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Møn
Møn () is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langebæk, Præstø, and Vordingborg. This has created a municipality with an area of and a total population of 46,307 (2005). It belongs to the Region Sjælland ("Zealand Region"). Møn is one of Denmark's most popular destinations for tourists with its white chalk cliffs, countryside, sandy beaches and the market town of Stege. In June 2017, UNESCO designated Møn as Denmark's first biosphere reserve, consisting of "a series of islands and islets in the southern Baltic Sea, over approximately 45,118 hectares (131,890 acres). Its landscapes include woodlands, grasslands, meadows, wetlands, coastal areas, ponds and steep hills." Location Møn is located just off the south-eastern tip of Zealand from which it is separated by the waters of the ''Hølen'' strait between K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Langebæk
Langebæk () is a town with a population of 248 (1 January 2022), The Mobile Statbank from which until 1 January 2007 was the main town of the former Langebæk municipality (, '' kommune'') in on the southeastern tip of the island of |
Karl Gjellerup
Karl Adolph Gjellerup (2 June 1857 – 11 October 1919) was a Danish poet and novelist who together with his compatriot Henrik Pontoppidan won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1917. He is associated with the Modern Breakthrough period of Scandinavian literature. He occasionally used the pseudonym Epigonos. Biography Youth and debut Gjellerup was the son of a vicar in Zealand who died when his son was three years. Karl Gjellerup was raised then by the uncle of Johannes Fibiger, he grew up in a national and romantic idealistic atmosphere. In the 1870s he broke with his background and at first he became an enthusiastic supporter of the naturalist movement and Georg Brandes, writing audacious novels about free love and atheism. Strongly influenced by his origin he gradually left the Brandes line and 1885 he broke totally with the naturalists, becoming a new romanticist. A central trace of his life was his Germanophile attitude, he felt himself strongly attracted to German culture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Johnson (Wisconsin Treasurer)
Henry Johnson (December 2, 1854March 5, 1941) was a Danish Americans, Danish American immigrant, farmer, logger, businessman, and Republican Party (United States), Republican politician. He was the 18th State Treasurer of Wisconsin, serving ten years from 1913 to 1923, and earlier served six years as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Oconto County, Wisconsin, Oconto County. Biography Johnson was born at Amendrup near Præstø, Denmark, on December 2, 1854. In 1873 he moved to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where he remained until 1879. He then bought land in the town of How, Wisconsin, to which he moved and engaged in farming and logging. He also operated a warehouse and real estate business in the nearby village of Suring, Wisconsin, Suring. He was the chairman of the city council, town board and City Treasurer, town treasurer for a number of years. He married Augusta Ernestina Dieck (1858–1924) on June 18, 1879. Johnson died on March 5, 1941, in Madison, Wisconsi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
