Ørstedsparken

Ørstedsparken
TypePublic
LocationCopenhagen, Denmark
Coordinates55°40′51″N 12°33′59″E / 55.68083°N 12.56639°E / 55.68083; 12.56639
Area6.5 hectares
Created27 October 1879
DesignerHenrik August Flindt
Owned byCopenhagen Municipality

Ørstedsparken is a public park in central Copenhagen, Denmark. One in a series of parks which were laid out on the grounds of the old fortification ring after it was decommissioned in the 1870s, the park still retains elements from the old fortifications in its topographya section of the moat now serve as an elongated lake and former bastions appear in the landscape as small hills. The park is named for the brothers Ørsted, the politician and jurist Anders Sandøe Ørsted, and the physicist Hans Christian Ørsted, who both are commemorated with monuments in the park.