Royal Library Garden, Copenhagen
The Royal Library Garden (
The garden has a shallow water basin with a water feature in the middle, blooming flower beds and large shady trees. It is accessible from the courtyard at Christiansborg's show grounds.
History
The Library Garden is located on top of the former site of
Features
Basin and water sculpture
The garden has a shallow pool at its centre. In the middle of it stands an eight-metre-high copper sculpture which spouts out cascades of water on the hour. Designed by scultpror Mogens Møller, it was a gift from the Ny Carlsberg Foundation to the Royal Library on the occasion of the opening of its extension, the Black Diamond, located on the waterfront on the other side of the old library building.[3]
Kierkegaard sculpture
A 1918 bronze statue of Søren Kierkegaard by sculptor Louis Hasselriis is located in the middle of the gardens. Kierkegaard appears absorbed in his own thoughts with his gaze directed towards a point on the other side of the wall where his fiancée, Regine Olsen, is said to have lived.
Vegetation
The wide variety of flowers in the gardens change with the seasons. Visitors can enjoy the view from rows of benches in the shade of the trees or from others out in the sun along the wall between the gardens and the yard to the Danish National Archives. Column plinths from the old Christiansborg serve as epergnes in the four grassy corner pieces and the principal axis through the gardens creates a link between the yard to the Danish National Archives and the main entrance to the Royal Library.
Gallery
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View towards Christiansborg
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The arched entrance
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One of two identical and symmetrically placed pavilions
See also
References
- ^ "Det Kongelige Biblioteks Have". AOK. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
- ^ "Det Kongelige Biblioteks gamle bygning 100 år". Royal Danish Library. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
- ^ "The Royal Library Gardens". Danish Palaces and Properties Agency. Archived from the original on 2010-09-11. Retrieved 2010-01-04.