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A Stroll through Ringsted
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Start by the Town Hall.
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1. The town Hall (designed by the famous Danish architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen) from 1937, commands an unimpeded view of St. Bendt’s church from the Square.
In front of the Town Hall you have “tingstenene” - stones used as seats for the “ting” men. In 1805 the institution moved to Copenhagen as Eastern High Court.
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2. The Roskilde Bishop Svend Norman erected around 1082 a travertine church dedicated to Our Lady for Benedictine monks at the Ringsted Monastery. It burnt down in 1806. King Valdemar the Great rebuild the church to a modern brick building, the well known Sct. Bendt’s Church. In 1170 the church was the scene of the Great Church Feast at which Valdemar had his father Knud Lavard buried by the high alter and his son Knud crowned. This is how Valdemar introduced the principles of a succession reign.
3. Build into the church wall you find the Mahler-houses, which are the oldest remaining town houses. The lowest one used to be the town’s western toll house. To the east of the houses by the gate in the church wall you can see a old cattle grate, which was supposed to prevent the loose pigs from entering the cemetery.
4. To the south of the church you have Klosterlunden - the monastery grove, which was the orchard of the monastery. Summer plays are now performed here each year in the month of August.
5. Ringsted Børs - The Ringsted Stock Exchange, a distinctive building inspired by German Renaissance build in 1897-98. The building was the first in Ringsted with central heating.
6. Lilletorv - The Small Square, which used to be the town center. The fountain Time wave II made by Ulrich Rössing.
7. Mindelunden is a memorial site of the regained freedom after the occupation and is composed by the architect, professor Steen Ejler Rasmussen and the landscape gardener C.Th. Sørensen. The memorial site is flanked by the Police station and the curved street called the “Banana”.
8. Where Ringsted’s old St. Hans Church stood until 1766 you now find the Water tower fra 1915. In front of the tower you find St. Hans Chapel erected in 1901 on the cemetery of the ancient St. Hans Church. The Chapel was utilized for religious ceremonies in connection with the restorations of St. Bendt’s church around1900. Since 1938 the building has been used by several institutions: Library, local archives and the school of music.
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9. Ringsted Museum & Vindmølle (windmill) - contain a town and district museum, activity workshop for children, and the working windmill grinds organic flour. Ringsted Radio Museum has a unique collection of radio and TV from the oldest “steam radio” to our time.
10. Ringsted Lystanlæg and Anlægspavillionen (recreation ground and garden pavilion). The garden were landscaped in 1898 modeled on an English garden. The garden pavilion was built in 1907.
11. Ringsted Bibliotek (library). Build in 1985, designed by architect Knud Munk. The sculpture (1984-85) at the library was sculptured by the well known Danish artist, Torben Ebbesen.
12. Sct. Knudsgade. The street was established in the middle of the 19th century. The houses are small undetached workmen’s dwellings. A typical street of a Danish provincial town.
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13. Sct. Knud Lavards kirke - The church is Roman Catholic and build in 1907. It is connected to the Sct. Joseph school.
14. Ringsted Torv - Ringsted Main Square. The church, the Thingstones and the street structure are the only elements back from the Middle Ages. In 1934 the church was laid open and Johannes Bjerg’s Valdemar den Store (Valdemar the Great) was erected. In 2000 the square has again been changed into its present appearance.
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