Memorial Mound, Copenhagen

[1] The nine reliefs represent (beginning with the one to the right of the entrance as seen from the centre and moving around clockwise): In the early 1920s, Danish-Americans in the United States conceived the idea to erect a memorial in Copenhagen as a counterpoint to the traditions surrounding Rebild Hills celebrations in Jutland.

A committee of Danish-Americans was set up which charged the sculptor Anders Bundgaard with creating an initial design proposal.

The question was also subject to prolonged discussions in the media, both by Inspector of the Rotal Fardens Clemmen Jørgensen, Forskønnelseskommissionen and Fredningsnævnet.

A location in Søndermarken was also criticized, both in national newspapers and the magazine Havekunst, for instance by the landscape architects such as Erik Erstad-Jørgensen and Gudmund Nyeland Brandt.

Around $12,000 was collected and the monument was inaugurated in 1925 with a ceremony attended by 40,000 people, including the entire Danish royal family.