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July 19, 2025

The Amanda statue is the symbol of Kerteminde.

It was created in 1954 by the artist Robert Lund Jensen and symbolizes the beautiful, graceful daughters of the town.

The story of Amanda comes from a girl whose real name was Sophie Krag. Sophie was a young girl from Kerteminde who suffered a sad fate and died of an illness at the age of only 40.

She was one of eight children of the watchmaker Edvard Krag and his wife Marie Catrine Ovesen Wittrock. At the age of 20, she traveled to Copenhagen to emulate her sister Augusta Møller and become an actress.

She received a job as a revue actress at the Nørrebro Theater, was quickly accepted into the acting world, and became engaged to the writer Anton Melbye,

who was ten years older.

According to the story, she met an old acquaintance from Kerteminde, the law student Wilhelm Nielsen, with whom she began a flirtation despite their engagement. The end of the story was a tragic annulment of the engagement.

The upper middle class was outraged, and a good friend of Anton's, the composer Axel Schwanenflügel, wrote the song "Harper i luften" (Harps in the Air) for the Winter Revue in 1893 – the famous song that begins with the line "Min Amanda var fra Kerteminde" (My Amanda was from Kerteminde).

The town of Kerteminde has, of course, long since forgiven its "Amanda" for her unfaithful debauchery and erected a monument to her as a symbol of the beautiful and graceful daughters of Kerteminde, whom one simply cannot help but love.

The word Amanda comes from Latin and means "the lovable one."

visitkerteminde.de/kerteminde/sehenswuerdigkeiten/amanda

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Location: Kerteminde, Southern Denmark, Denmark

Amanda of Kerteminde

1. Rest Area by the Lake – Kerteminde Old Town and Harbor loop from Week-endbyen

2. Hverringe Manor – Kerteminde Old Town and Harbor loop from Dalby

3. Langebro Bridge, Kerteminde – Kerteminde Old Town and Harbor loop from Marslev

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