Holmen

Holmen (Danish: The Islet) is a water-bound neighbourhood in Copenhagen, Denmark, occupying the former grounds of the Royal Naval Base and Dockyards. In spite of its name, deceptively in singular, Holmen is a congregation of small islands, forming a north-eastern extension of Christianshavn between Zealand and the northern tip of Amager.

Holmen was created by a series of land reclamations to house the Holmen naval base after it was moved from Gammelholm and used to occupy the entire area, but activities have gradually been moved elsewhere. Since the early 1990s, the area has instead been redeveloped for other use as a new district of the city, while the remaining naval facilities are confined to the northernmost islet of Nyholm. The area is today characterized by a mixture of residential developments, creative businesses and educational institutions and remaining military activities. Holmen is also home to the Copenhagen Opera House which was completed in 2005.

Though technically a part of the central Indre By district of Copenhagen, being a cul-de-sac as districts go, the area has a somewhat quiet and “remote” reputation and feel to it.

In 1680, a plan was conceived to move the fleet out of the city. Responsibility for the plan was given to Admiral Niels Juel.

 

Holmen ca. 1950

Orlogsværftet (model of the navy station in 1968)

The Motor Torpedo Boat Yard – Motortorpedobåd Værftet

Her Danish Majesty’s Yacht Dannebrog (A540) (Danish: KDM Dannebrog) – Kongeskibet Dannebrog on the left with B&W in the background, Peder Skram and Mastekranen (English: The Masting Crane) on the right.

Københavns Toldbod and Mærsk headquarters in the background.

Peder Skram the summerhouse sinker.

HDMS Sælen (S323) (or KDM Sælen ) is one of the three Tumleren-class small coastal submarines of the Royal Danish Navy.

She was built as a Type 207 submarine by Rheinstahl-Nordseewerke of Emden, Germany in 1965 for the Royal Norwegian Navy and served for 25 years as HNoMS Uthaug before being purchased by Denmark in 1990, and renamed after the seal. Her international call sign is OUCJ.

On 4 December 1990, Sælen sank while being towed from Copenhagen to Aarhus. On 17 December, she was raised by the German floating crane Roland and taken to Aarhus for repair. On 10 August 1993, diving approval was issued and the boat was recommissioned.

Sælen served in the 2003 invasion of Iraq from May 2002 until June 2003. To speed her return to her homeport of Frederikshavn after 385 days of deployment in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, she was transported on board the heavy-lift ship Grietje.

Nyholms Hovedvagt “Under Kronen” Nyholms Guardhouse “Under the Crown” build by Philip de Lange 1744-45.

Søværnets Kaserne (Marinekasernen) from 1910.

The Navy Officer School build in 1939

Orlogsværftets Drydock

Orlogsværftets machine shop from 1915-18 at Frederiksholm.

The Motor Torpedo Boat Yard – Motortorpedobåd Værftet from 1954 was made into luxury apartments about 10-15 years ago (I guess).

The Naval Centre for diving with the diving vessel Y 311 Søløven (The Sealion) and the Naval Centre for Engineering.

The former headquarters of the Command (Joint Defence command) at Arsenaløen.

Mastekranen with B&W in the background

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Only in Denmark!

Operation Bøllebank

Københavns Frihavn – Copenhagen Freeport

Københavns Toldbod – Copenhagen Custom

Kastellet and the Fortification Ring, Copenhagen, Denmark

Fortifications of Copenhagen, Denmark

Christiansborg Slot – Christiansborg Castle

The Lur Blowers Monument

Copenhagen 1960s

Copenhagen, Denmark

Winter in Denmark

Tuborgflasken

King of the hill: Elephants, elegance and 170 years of Carlsberg

Retired crane becomes luxury-retreat

Nakskov Shipyard

B&W

The Lindø Story

Ship Build In 4,31 Minutes

Inrotech Shipyard Welding robots (Made in Denmark)

Århus Shipyard

Frederikshavns Shipyard

Esbjerg Shipyard

Fåborg Shipyard

Karstensens Shipyard, Skagen

Korsør Shipyard

Orlogsværftet

Helsingør Værft 1975

Shipyards: We are being held down by the state

Business Minister will explore possible protectionism against Danish shipyards

Operation Safari (German: Unternehmen Safari) was a German military operation during World War II involving 9,000 German soldiers. Launched with the intention of disarming the Danish military, it led to the scuttling of the Royal Danish Navy, and internment of all Danish soldiers. On the Danish side it resulted in 23–26 dead, and around 40–50 injured.

A total of 4,600 Danish personnel were captured. German losses were reported as one killed and eight wounded, although they may have been as high as 11 killed and 59 wounded.

Free Corps Denmark

Free Corps Denmark – Witness To Soviet War Crimes

Denmark’s collaboration with Germany, during World War II

Denmark–Germany

Political drama in occupied Denmark

Die Sahnefront

THE RIFLE SYNDICATE

Højgaard & Schultz

B&W

Aarhus was strategically important for Germany doing WWII

Kolding

A Legacy of Dead German Children

Denmark–Germany relations

The Motor Torpedo Boat Yard/The Torpedo/U Boat Pen.

HDMS Sehested (P 547) was a Willemoes-class fast attack craft of the Royal Danish Navy which was in commission from 1978 until 2000. It is now docked at Holmen in Copenhagen where it serves as a museum ship, part of the Royal Danish Naval Museum. The ship is named after Hannibal Sehested, a 17th-century Danish statesman.

Black September (1979)

The error of calculation caused the submarine to turn over immediately and capsize in the dock when un-docking [?] started, but the worst was far from over!

It turned out that the submarine hatches and watertight doors had not been closed and in a short time the submarine was partly filled with water.

Only in Denmark!

Subsequently, they sought to bring the submarine up-right, but this too went all wrong. The submarine slipped down by the blocks that it had been on in the dock, capsizeding all around and now taking even more water.

In total, it took more than 300 tons of water, before the naval yard managed to stabilize the submarine in the dock.

After the submarine had stabilised, it could begin to empty it for water and form an overview of the extent of the damage.

The Naval Shipyard subsequently estimated that a repair of the submarine would cost about 9.5 million. Since the main survey was the last major overhaul before the submarine five years later was scheduled to be discontinued by the fleet’s figures, there was initial doubt as to whether it could even pay to repair the submarine.

Instead, the Navy chose to renovating the submarine, a repair that amounted to 15.2 mill kr. More than 50% above the price originally estimated by the naval yard.

Nine months of repair and the SPÆKHUGGEREN (The Killer Whale) was again ready to enter as one of the fleet’s operative units, which it made up to 1989, i.e. five years longer than originally planned.

SPÆKHUGGEREN had only just come on the right keel before another accidentally hit the Danish submarine force and the naval yard this fall in September 1979.

The submarine SPRINGEREN (The Knight, as in chess) had been to a planned less periodical overhaul at the naval yard and lay moored off the battery magazine in Takkeladsgraven, as this submarine also chose to make an uncontrolled diving.

On the 29. September had someone on board forgotten to close a fire hydrant, and in a short time the submarine was partly filled with water.

However, it managed to rescue the submarine and after a water drain, and a necessary repair was again ready as an operating unit.

Source:

http://www.navalhistory.dk/indexUS.htm