1846 print ROSKILDE CATHEDRAL, DENMARK, #7
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1846 print ROSKILDE CATHEDRAL, DENMARK, #7. City, seat of Roskilde amtskommune (county), eastern Sjalland (Zealand), Denmark, at the head of Roskilde Fjord. The Treaty of Roskilde with Sweden was drafted there in 1658. Roskilde . The cathedral is the royal mausoleum where 38 Danish kings and queens are buried, including 16 in an unbroken line from the Reformation to 1972. Danemark07 1846 print ROSKILDE CATHEDRAL, DENMARK, #7 Print from steel engraving titled Eglise de Roskilde, published in a volume of L'Univers, Paris, approx. page size 20 x 12.5 cm, approx. image size 10 x 13.5 cm. Roskilde, city, seat of Roskilde amtskommune (county), eastern Sjalland (Zealand), Denmark, at the head of Roskilde Fjord. It is named for its legendary founder, Hroar (Ro), and the sacred springs (kilde), several of which remain nearby. The former seat of Danish kings (c. 1020-1416) and capital of Denmark (until 1443), it has been a bishopric since about 1060 and was Denmark's most important ecclesiastical centre until the Reformation. The Treaty of Roskilde with Sweden was drafted there in 1658. The largest rail junction and traffic centre on Sjalland, its development has been stimulated by proximity to Copenhagen (with which it was connected by the first Danish railway in 1847). The city has tanneries, distilleries, bacon factories, a meat-research institute, and a high school for industrial workers. The Danish Atomic Power Plant and Research Station (1959) is on nearby Riso Peninsula. The city's partly Romanesque, partly Gothic cathedral was begun by Bishop (later archbishop) Absalon about 1170 (consecrated 1464) on the site of two earlier churches. The cathedral is the royal mausoleum where 38 Danish kings and queens are buried, including 16 in an unbroken line from the Reformation to 1972. A museum of Viking relics, including 1,000-year-old longboats, opened in 1969.
