Roskilde is the 10th largest city in Denmark with a population around 48,000 and is located 30 km west of Copenhagen. Roskilde is a historic city and during the late Viking Age and Middle Ages it was the capital of Denmark. This layout shows the city center of Roskilde.
I got the idea for the layout back in November 2012 when I was exhibiting some of my MOCs at LEGO Fan Welt in Cologne. At the exhibition I bought “The Big Unofficial LEGO Builder's Book” written by Joachim Klang and Oliver Albrecht. The book inspired me to build something in scale 1:100. At the same exhibition a large model of the Cologne Cathedral was exhibited. It inspired me to build the cathedral in my hometown Roskilde.
When I came home to Denmark I started building Roskilde Cathedral and its surroundings in scale 1:100. It took 16 month to build the layout.
In May 2014 the layout was exhibited for the first time at a LEGO exhibition (Klodsfest) in Roskilde.
The most famous building Roskilde is the Cathedral (Roskilde Domkirke). The cathedral is the burial site for the Danish monarchs and is known as the church in the world where most kings and queens are buried. Since 1995, it has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Roskilde Cathedral contains architecture from the last 800 years. There has been a church on the site since year 980. The current cathedral was built between 1170 and 1280 in the Gothic style. But since then many extensions have been added:
The two large west tower was completed around year 1400
The Margrethe Spire is built around 1420
Christian I’s Chapel is built around 1460
Christian IV’s Chapel is built in the Renaissance style around 1620
The two characteristic spires on the towers is built around 1635
Frederik V’s Chapel is built in neo-Classical style around t 1775
Christian IX’s Chapel is built in neo-Byzantine style in 1925
Frederik IX’s Burial Site is built in 1985.
More information:
http://en.wikipedia....kilde_Cathedral
The Former Town Hall of Roskilde was built in neo-Gothic style in 1884. But the tower is much older. It was built in Gothic style around year 1500. Originally it was part of St Lawrence Church. But after the Danish reformation in 1536 the church was demolished. The tower were allowed to stand and in 1884 the tower became part of the new neo-Gothic Town Hall:
The real town hall can be seen here:
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The Yellow Mansion (Roskilde Palæ) was built in the 1730s in Baroque style:
The real mansion can be seen here:
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The “Absalon Arch” was built in the Gothic style around year 1200 and connected the cathedral to the Bishop's Palace, which at the time was where the yellow mansion is today:
The real arch can be seen here:
http://en.wikipedia...._(Roskilde).jpg
Roskilde Gymnasium is a Danish high school lactated next to the cathedral. There has been a school on the site since year 1020. But no buildings are left from that time. The high school's oldest building is the “Rector Residence”. It has a north wing which dates from around 1770. The rest of the residence is built around 1820:
The main building of the school is from 1842:
During the last 100 years many additional buildings have been added to the school. The newest building is the blue “Science Building” from 2012:
This is how Roskilde looks like in real life:
More photos of my layout can be seen here:
https://www.flickr.c...57646580719978/
