Nordhavnen, or Nordhavn, is a harbour area at the coast of the Øresund, founded at the end of the 19th century in Copenhagen, Denmark. It covers an area of more than 2km.
Today, most of Copenhagen Harbour's traditional activities are situated in Nordhavn, including ferry berths, a container terminal, marina, and industrial companies.
The train station Nordhavn station is located at Nordhavnen close to the city district Østerbro.
Nordhavn city district
Nordhavn translates into North Harbour and is a district of Copenhagen. Nordhavn is located in the old industrial harbour area and has been redeveloped. Nordhavn consists of urban islands connected by pedestrian friendly roads that incorporate cyclist expressways. This district is planned to become the larges metropolitan development in northern Europe.[1] The agency By og Havn has proposed plans to develop Nordhavn as a new city district that would have 40,000 residents and 40,000 jobs.[2][3] In December 2024 Nordhavn had about 6000 residents. The urban planners of Nordhavn city district have courted controversy when proposing a 15-minute city where cars are not welcome.[4]
The agency By og Havn has started the 668 million DKK expansion of Nordhavn into Øresund. The project is the largest construction job in Denmark in 2013 and the largest consumer of steel in Northern Europe; 28,000 tonnes of steel is used for pile driving the sheet piles of the perimeter, and the area is being filled with 7 million tonnes of clean earth and 11 million tonnes of polluted earth from the City Circle Line metro and other projects until around year 2022–2025.[5] The City Circle Line is extending into Nordhavn with at least one station.[6]
Cruise ship quay
The cruise ship quay is 1,100m long with 3 passenger terminals.[5]
UN City campus
In 2013, the United Nations campus UN City opened at the eastern part of Marmormolen in the Nordhavn area.[7] The project will include most of the present UN activities in Copenhagen.[8][9]
Cultural references
Skudehavnsvej in Nordhavn is used as a location at (0:37:24 and 0:47:14 in the 1977 Olsen-banden film The Olsen Gang Outta Sight.[10]
See also
External links
References
- ^ Mina Hasman (2023). RIBA Climate Guide. RIBA Publishing. ISBN 9781914124471.
- ^ Nordhavnen
- ^ By & Havn Accessed: 21 October 2016
- ^ Steve Rose (10 December 2024). "The five-minute city: inside Denmark's revolutionary neighbourhood". The Guardian.
- ^ a b Birgitte Marfelt. "Nordhavnen er på vej ud i sejlrenden" Ingeniøren, 31 August 2013. Accessed: 16 October 2013.
- ^ Birgitte Marfelt. "Uden udbud og anlægslov: Fuld gang i metro til Nordhavn" Ingeniøren 4 June 2013 Accessed: 16 October 2013
- ^ Marmormolen
- ^ Mie Stage. "Nu åbner Københavns stjerneformede FN-by" Ingeniøren, 3 June 2013. Accessed: 16 October 2013.
- ^ "Vedr. Århusgadekvarteret i Nordhavn" (PDF) (in Danish). Museum of Copenhagen. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
- ^ "Film 9 Olsen Banden deruda / Die Olsenbande schlägt wieder zu". olsenbande-homepage.de (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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