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Amanda Statue of Kerteminde

Amanda Statue of Kerteminde

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Amanda Statue of Kerteminde

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Location: Kerteminde, Southern Denmark, Denmark

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1. South beach – Kerteminde Church loop from Feddet

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2. South beach – Kerteminde Church loop from Glambæk

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3. Kerteminde Church – South beach loop from Kerteminde

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01:43

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JR56

July 7, 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 tragic fate and died of an illness at the age of just 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, quickly became 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,
law student Wilhelm Nielsen, with whom she began a flirtation despite their engagement.
The end of the story was a tragic breakup 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 treacherous 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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Rheinschiffer ⚓

August 15, 2019

A tribute to all the beautiful women of Kerteminde.

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Amanda Statue of Kerteminde

1. South beach – Kerteminde Church loop from Feddet

2. South beach – Kerteminde Church loop from Glambæk

3. Kerteminde Church – South beach loop from Kerteminde

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