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Port of Esbjerg Sailing ships in Esbjerg Harbour. The Port of Esbjerg on the southwest coast of Jutland is a competitor to Aarhus and Hamburg for freight. Built by the State in 1868, it was once Denmark's principal fishing harbour but today has become Europe's leading port for shipping offshore wind turbines.
Esbjerg Harbour is the second largest harbour in Denmark (after Aarhus). It serves Maersk Drilling headquarters, and the regional commuter Esbjerg–Fanø–Esbjerg. For those arriving by pleasure craft, there is a marina along Pier No. 1 with 198 mooring places. [68]
Located at Esbjerg's new area "Havneøen" at the northernmost end of the harbour, the museum ship is open to visitors from May to August, Monday to Friday, 11 am to 4 pm. [6] It features an exhibition illustrating in detail the role and importance of Denmark's lightships. [7]
The museum has three major permanent exhibitions: the antiquity section presenting local finds and reconstructions covering the Iron Age and the Viking Period; the amber exhibition with hundreds of objects tracing the long history of amber on the west coast of Jutland; and the town department documents developments from the beginning of the 20th century with a shop, a square and a harbour ...
24 April – The Port of Esbjerg construction act provides for the construction of a new export port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, as a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour. [2] 7 August – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen is established.
One of Denmark's oldest Christian crosses crafted in bronze was found at the site. [1] [2] In 1688, when the first data were collected under Christian V, there were ten farms and four houses in the village. In 1801, there were 113 inhabitants, in 1890, 171. Sædding Lighthouse came in 1872 with the development of Esbjerg Harbour. [2]
Esbjerg Water Tower is an iconic water tower in Esbjerg in southwest Jutland, Denmark. Completed in 1897, it was designed by Christian Hjerrild Clausen who had been inspired by Nuremberg's Nassauer Haus. It stands on a Bronze Age burial mound at the top of a cliff overlooking the harbour. As a result, it has become the landmark of Esbjerg. [1]
Claus Sørensen in Esbjerg harbour, 2019. The 1931-built Claus Sørensen E.1 is a preserved fishing cutter that is also used for educational tours around the port of Esbjerg and the Wadden Sea. She was built at the Søren Kjeldsen shipyard at Esbjerg as Godthaab (E.39), later becoming Zoar (E.39).