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21-445: The Royal Danish Nautical Charts Archive was initiated by royal resolution of 25 October 1784, at the initiative of a naval captain, Poul Løvenørn , who would also become the first director of the department. It was originally located on Holmens Kanal , next to Holmen Church . On 1 April 1973 the department, together with Lodsvæsenet (the pilot service), Fyrvæsenet (the lighthouse service) and Redningsvæsenet (the rescue service),

42-529: A menace to the adjacent Royal Theatre and other prominent buildings in the area. The severe cholera outbreak which hit Copenhagen in the summer of 1853 made it clear that the canal posed a hazard to the health of the population. When the Navy decommissioned their last operations in the area in 1859, it was decided to fill the canal in connection with the redevelopment of the Gammelholm neighbourhood, converting it into

63-630: A naval officer, and in 1657, he was appointed admiral. He served with distinction during the Dano-Swedish War (1658–60) and took a prominent part in the defence of Copenhagen against the forces of King Charles X of Sweden . During fifteen years of peace, Juel, as admiral of the fleet, labored assiduously to develop and improve the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy , though he bitterly resented the setting over his head in 1663 of Vice-Admiral Cort Adeler (1622–1675), on his return from service to

84-577: A street. The new street was inaugurated in 1864. It was the first street in Copenhagen to be installed with pavements and individually numbered houses. A new building for the National Bank of Denmark designed by Johan Daniel Herholdt was built in the street between 1865 and 1870. The large statue of Niels Juel was installed in 1881 to commemorate his achievements in the Battle of Køge Bay in 1677. It

105-470: A suitcase with money from a bank in Holmens Kanal by replacing it with another suitcase at0:56:18 in the 1972 Olsen-banden film The Olsen Gang's Big Score . 55°40′40″N 12°35′09″E  /  55.6778°N 12.5858°E  / 55.6778; 12.5858 Niels Juel Niels Juel (8 May 1629 – 8 April 1697) was a Danish admiral and naval hero. He served as supreme command of

126-451: The Battle of Møn . On 30 June 1677 he won his greatest victory, in the Battle of Køge Bay southwest of Copenhagen. With 25 ships of the line and 1267 guns, he routed the Swedish admiral Henrik Horn (1618–1693) with 36 ships of the line and 1800 guns. For this great triumph, the reward of superior seamanship and strategy at an early stage of the engagement, Juel's experienced eye told him that

147-703: The Dano-Norwegian Navy during the late 17th century and oversaw development of the Danish-Norwegian Navy. Niels Juel was born the son of Erik Juel and Sophie Sehested, both of whom were descended from Danish nobility , who lived in Jutland where the father had a career as a local functionary and judge. He was the brother of the diplomat Jens Juel (1631–1700). Niels Juel was born in Christiania (now Oslo ), Norway , where his family sought refuge during

168-629: The Republic of Venice during the Turkish wars. In 1675, at the outbreak of the Scanian War , he served at first under Adeler, but on the death of the latter in November 1675, he was appointed to the supreme command. Juel then won a European reputation, and raised Danish sea-power to unprecedented eminence, by the system of naval tactics , which consisted of cutting off a part of the enemy's force and concentrating

189-789: The 1627 invasion of Jutland during the Thirty Years' War , while his father took part in the defense of the country at home. The following year after the occupation had ended, the family was reunited in Jutland. From 1635 to 1642, Juel was brought up by his aunt Karen Sehested (1606–1672) at the Stenalt estate near Randers . In 1647 Juel was enrolled at the Sorø Academy . In 1652, Juel entered Dutch naval service. He served his naval apprenticeship under Dutch Admiral Maarten Tromp (1598–1653) and Dutch Admiral Michiel de Ruyter (1607–1676), taking part in all

210-605: The Danish admiral of cowardice. A few days after the battle of Jasmund, Dutch Admiral Cornelis Tromp (1629–1691) with 17 fresh Danish and Dutch ships of the line, superseded Juel in the supreme command. Juel took a leading part in Cornelis Tromp's great victory off Battle of Öland (1 June 1676), which enabled the Danes to invade Scania unopposed. On 1 June 1677, Juel defeated the Swedish admiral Erik Carlsson Sjöblad (1647–1725) during

231-451: The Danish government. This order is still valid, according to the Danish copyright law § 92. Holmens Kanal Holmens Kanal is a short street in central Copenhagen . Part of the main thoroughfare of the city centre , it extends from Kongens Nytorv for one block to a junction with a statue of Niels Juel where it turns right towards Holmens Bro while the through traffic continues straight along Niels Juels Gade . The street

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252-482: The Danish navy ultimately reached imposing dimensions, especially after Juel became chief of the admiralty in 1683. Juel was married to Margrethe Ulfeldt (1641–1703) in 1661. She was the daughter of nobleman Knud Ulfeldt (1609–1657) and Vibeke Podebusk (1608–1645). She was betrothed to him after her father died when she was 20, he was 30 years old. She gave birth to their four children between 1664 and 1672. In 1674, Juel

273-594: The major engagements of the First Anglo-Dutch War , a conflict between England and the Dutch Republic . From 1654 to 1656, he attended Admiral Michiel de Ruyter on two trips to the Mediterranean during engagements against North African pirates. During an indisposition at Amsterdam in 1655–1656, he acquired a thorough knowledge of shipbuilding. In 1656, he returned to Copenhagen and entered Danish service as

294-545: The supreme command to Juel. In the spring of 1678 Juel put to sea with 84 ships carrying 2,400 cannon, but as the Swedes were no longer had the naval strength to engage such a formidable fleet on the open sea, his operations were limited to blockading the Swedish ports and transporting troops to Rügen . After the Treaty of Lund in 1679, Juel showed himself an administrator and reformer of the first order, and under his energetic supervision

315-413: The whole attack on it. He first employed this maneuver at the Battle of Jasmund off Rügen (25 May 1676) when he broke through the enemy's line in close column and cut off five of their ships, despite nightfall prevented him from pursuing them. Juel's operations were considerably hampered at this period by the conduct of his auxiliary, Dutch Lieutenant Admiral Philips van Almonde (1644–1711), who accused

336-403: The wind in the course of the day would shift from S.W. to W. and he took extraordinary risks accordingly; he was made lieutenant admiral general and a privy councillor. This victory, besides permanently crippling the Swedish navy, gave the Danes the self-confidence to become less dependent on their Dutch allies. In the following year Cornelis Tromp was discharged by King Christian V , who gave

357-547: Was designed by the sculptor Theobald Stein and cast in bronze. In 2002 the city council decided to move the statue to a new site on the waterfront to make way for a more efficient distribution of the traffic at its busy junction. This decision was met with severe criticism, including protests from the Royal Naval Museum , and in 2003 the Danish Heritage Agency decided to stop the move. Egon Ove Sprogøe steals

378-558: Was expanded to serve as a new harbour for the Royal Fleet after its ships had become too large to enter the Arsenal Harbour further south. A street named Størrestrædet ran along the street from circa 1650. It was part of a small new neighborhood in which most of the streets—;with names such as Laksegade , Ulkegade, Hummergade and Delfingade—;were named after fish species and other sea creatures. Several public buildings

399-542: Was merged into Farvandsdirektoratet , in that process changing its name to Nautisk Afdeling and gaining a few more responsibilities. By royal resolution of 9 October 1987, the nautical chart production part was detached and combined with Geodætisk Institut and Matrikeldirektoratet to form Kort & Matrikelstyrelsen , where it today is a department called Søkortområdet . According to resolution of 1816, nautical charts produced by Søkortarkivet have no copyright expiration date. They are permanently copyright protected by

420-453: Was originally a canal, hence the name, but was filled in the 1860s. Today it is dominated by bank and government buildings. Holmens Kanal was created when Christian IV extended Copenhagen's East Rampart straight through Bremerholm as part of his upgrade of the city's fortifications . The moat in front of the rampart was dug in 1606 and became known as the Canal of Holmen (Holmens Kanal) when it

441-474: Was situated along the canal, including the General Commissioner's Office ( Generalkommissionariatet ). The canal lost its practical use after the naval fleet relocated to Nyholm , a newly reclaimed area north of Christianshavn on the other side of the harbour. Holmens Kanal deteriorated into an open sewer fed by the city's extensive system of gutters and a notorious nesting ground for rats which were

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