War Memorials in the Kastellet

Hah!  Jael is looking up at things again!

There were statutes and memorials all over the place around the Kastellet.  Most of them, understandably, seemed to be related to wars and things like that.














According to Google Translate, this memorial says "Memorial to volunteers and those who fell for Denmark in 1848-1850 and 1864".  If I am correct, this is a memorial to those who fought in the First and Second Schleswig Wars.  There are other memorials to fighters in these wars in the Citadel as well.

This monument is called "Our Fallen" (or possibly, "Our Slain")
"in Danish and in Allied military service, 1940-1945"
"erected by the Danish people"

This is a statue that was just right in the middle of the park between the church and the quay.
Churchill looks plenty intimidating.  There were a couple of other busts a little bit away from
this one.  After church, Jael and I were going to go to walk over and see if they were FDR and
Stalin, because that is what they looked like from a distance.  When we walked back that way,
though, there was an ambulance and some emergency workers right beside them and there
was either a dead body or a really drunk body wrapped in sheets that they were working over.
So we decided to skip that part of the park.

In the middle of the Kastellet, there is a big new (very new) monument.  They started building it in April of 2011 and it was only completed in September.  It was big and empty and I am still not sure what everything represented.  It is the Monument to the Danish International Effort.  You can see it's (Danish) website, here. According to that website, "In respect for the many who have been deployed to conflict and disaster, for those who are posted now and for those who have died, the government has decided that there should be a monument to Danish International Effort since 1948."

Through the hexagon shaped window you can see a little hexagon shaped fireplace with a
flame in it and beyond that, a hexagon shaped pool.  I don't know why everything is
hexagon shaped.  The wall says (something like) "A time, and state, and people".
I also don't know the significance of that.

This, I believe, lists all of the places that Danish troops have been stationed since 1948.  When you figure that this is just the places where little Denmark has been, it kind of makes you wonder how long the U.S.'s list would be.

These walls, I think, the names of Danish military personnel who have died in service.  The wall on the left had the earliest dates, from 1956.  The wall on the right has the most recent dates, with dates as recent as 2011.

I found this picture of St. Alban's Anglican Church that I had in the wrong file folder.
This is from the land side of the church, opposite the Kastellet.
It is an awfully pretty church.