The Ivar Huitfeldt Column is a

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, built to commemorate the death of Admiral

Ivar Huitfeldt Iver Huitfeldt (5 December 1665 – 4 October 1710) was a Dano-Norwegian naval officer who was killed in action, when he commanded the ship '' Dannebroge'' during Great Northern War 1700–1721. Biography Iver Huitfeldt was born in the Norwegian ...

and his men from

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, which exploded and sank in the Battle of Køge Bat during the

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. The monument was constructed in 1886 to a design by Vilhelm Dahlerup. Ferdinand Edvard Ring was responsible for the statue of the Roman goddess of victory,

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, and for the reliefs, while

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undertook the monument's architectural design.

Background

On 4 October 1710, the ship of the line ''

'', which Huitfeldt commanded, was set on fire during an encounter with the Swedes. He gave orders to continue the battle, which only came to an end when the ship blew up. Huitfeldt and 497 crew members were killed. Between 1872 and 1875 various artifacts were brought up from the wreck, including cannons and the ship's anchor.

Design

The monument consists of a marble column placed on a tall granite base and topped by a statue of

. It stands approximately 19 metres tall and measures 3.377 x 3.77 metres at the base. Four bronze reliefs on the base of the monument, one on each side, feature Huitfeldt's portrait, his coat of arms, his ship and a short text. The design incorporates the cannonballs barrels and the ship's anchor is attached to the plinth.

History

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The initial plans for a Huitfeldt memorial called for a much smaller monument, a sort of cairn, but after the intervention of Carlsberg brewer Carl Jacobsen who had already sponsored several monuments in Copenhagen, including a statue of Admiral

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next to the

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, it was decided to launch a design competition. It was won by Vilhelm Dahlerup. The original plan was to erect the monument at the small churchyard attached to the naval

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, close to the main entrance in Havnegade, but Dahlerup's monument was ultimately deemed too big for the site. The bronze components were cast in C.F. Holm's bronze foundry at

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Design

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