Lundbye’s View of Kalundborg from Asnæsværket
By the small beach between Asnæsværket and the West Harbour stands Lundbye Landmark 14. From here you look across the fjord to Kalundborg – the view J.Th. Lundbye drew and painted in 1846 and 1847.
Between block 5 of the Asnæsværket power station and the new West Harbour lies a small man-made bathing beach with a view across the fjord to Kalundborg. Here stands landmark 14 of Lundbye Landmarks, and from here you see the town from almost the same side as the Danish Golden Age painter J.Th. Lundbye did.
The town seen from the fjord
Lundbye grew up in Skibbrogade, and from there he walked with his sketchbook across the meadows in the south of the town to the edge of the fjord. On 2 September 1846 he drew Ved Kallundborg, which became the model for the small oil painting Ships in Harbour on Kalundborg Fjord with the church, the town and the windmills. From 1847 comes the watercolour Kallundborg, now in Kalundborg Museum. Another picture of the town seen from the south shows the five-towered church without its central tower and three of the mills on Møllebakken.
The fjord today
The inner fjord has changed radically since Lundbye’s time. It has been filled in and built up with port facilities, warehouses and industry, so there is no point in looking for the exact spots where he sat. From the beach, however, you can still see the town rising above the water with the Church of Our Lady as a landmark, and the view still has something of Lundbye’s pictures.
Hans Christian Andersen also admired the view when he visited Lerchenborg in July 1862 and wrote in his diary about the view from the ice house in Sneglehøj between Asnæsværket and Lerchenborg. From the beach it is a short distance to the other landmarks on Asnæs. Find more inspiration for experiences in the area at destinationsjaelland.dk.
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