The Citadel
Also known as Kastellet
1664
landscape
After the Swedish siege of Copenhagen in 1658-1660, the Dutch engineer Henrik Rüse was brought in to rebuild and extend Christian IV's earlier St. Anne's Redoubt of 1626 into a full pentagonal star fortress. The work ran 1662-1664 under…
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- 1664
Henrik Ruse
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