Whitsun Walk

It is good that we still have two days to celebrate Whitsun. Yesterday the weather was rather poor, but today it was so nice that it would have been a pity to stay at home. So I decided to explore more of Copenhagen.
The urban train was today astonishingly dirty. Sticky remains of soft drinks and newspapers from last Friday. What a disgrace that DSB cannot maintain its property better.
Østerport Station is a good starting point for different walks. The station has taken its inspiration from Viking farms. Old meets new:

Train leaving Østerport Station

Nyboder (New Houses) is neat to the station. The quarter was established by king Christian IV., the king who heavily influenced how Copenhagen looks today. Nyboder is a very early example for row houses. Thefirst houses were built in 1631. Later tmes was critical about the standard in these houses and several barbarians tried to knock down these houses. Fortunately these houses are now covered by monument protection.

Nyboder, an acute-angled corner

I won't put pictures of the status around Churchill Park and Langelinie. I think I will make an album with those somewhere else. Not all islike great art, but still - it's a part of the whole, like this one:

Theobald Stein's statue of a fisherboy from Naples. Must have been a very warn summer that year.

For reasaons which I don't understand I have never been to the Citadel before. The place is special, as it is the oldest still working barracks. Or as the armed forces call it: a modern working place in historical surroundings. Kastellet (the citadel) used to be self-supplying with bread, but most of the windmills are gone.

The last windmill of the citadel has more symbolical than practical value.

I also wanted to see the place Brumleby at Østerbro. Here after the cholera the Danish general physicians did something unusual for that time: they built houses with sufficient light and place and green areas. This public housing often was about to disappear, as greedy speculative iniutiative tried to demolish these houses. However, the people living in these houses fought a gritty fight with the municipality. Now these houses should be protected and safe for posterity. Now it's organized as condominium and the houses have been cautiously and carefully been restored.

Brumleby - housing for the "poor classes", now a popular place to live