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You are invited to participate in ensuring Christiania's status as public heritage. The autonomous Freetown of Christiania has reached an agreement with the Danish state after many years of struggle and negotiations.
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Christiania Art Gallery is a family owned gallery in the...
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Christiania is considered to be the fourth largest tourist attractionin Copenhagen, with half a million visitors annually. The residents of Christiania are called Christianit, or Christianshavner and Amagerkaner because Christiania is located on the island of Amager. The 1976 protest song "I kan ikke slå os ihjel" ("You cannot kill us"), written by...
Christiania is an intentional community and commune of about 850 to 1,000 residents, covering 7.7 hectares (19 acres) in the borough of Christianshavn in the Danish capital city of Copenhagen on the island of Amager. The area of Christiania consists of the former military barracks of Bådsmandsstræde and parts of the city ramparts. The ramparts and ...
1970s
On 26 September 1971, Christiania was declared open by Jacob Ludvigsen, a well-known provo and journalist who published a magazine called Hovedbladet ('The main paper'), which was intended for and successfully distributed to mostly young people. In the paper, Ludvigsen wrote an article in which he and five others explored what he termed 'The Forbidden City of the Military'. The article widely announced the proclamation of the free town, and among other things he wrote the following under the...
1980s
During the 1980s, motorcycle gangs fought their way into Christiania, seeking to gain control over the drug market. One gang in particular, Bullshit Motorcycle Club, managed to fight off a chapter of the Hells Angels to establish sole control of the drugs market by 1984. In 1987, after police found the dismembered body of a man under the floorboards of a Bullshitter bike shop inside Christiania, the Bullshitters were broken up and cleared from the area following a combined response from the c...
2000s
In April 2005, a gang shot and killed a man in Christiania and injured three others in an incident related to Christiania's cannabis trade. On 14 May 2007, workers from the governmental Forest and Nature Agency, accompanied by police, entered Christiania to demolish leftovers of the small, abandoned building of Cigarkassen ('the cigar box'). They were met by angry and frightened Christianites, fearing that the police also intended to demolish other houses. The residents built roadblocks, but...
Christiania has a number of street food stands, as well as two breweries, Christiania Bryghus and Christiania Bryg.
Christiania has countered the government's plans for normalisation with its own community driven planning proposal, which after eight months of internal workshops and meetings gained consensus at the common meeting before being published in early 2006.Christiania's own development plan was awarded the Initiative Award of the Society for the Beautif...
Christiania native Lukas Forchhammer of the Danish pop band Lukas Graham wrote the 2016 song "Mama Said" about his experience growing up in the community. The mid-2010s documentary Christiania: 40 Years of Occupationcovers the community's history. Freetown Christiania featured prominently in the script for the third episode of the 2016 Trailer Park...
Christiania.org on FacebookChristiania.Freetown on Instagram- 34 ha (84 acres)
- Partially autonomous (until 2013)
Christiania er et alternativsamfunn i København, opprettet på et forlatt, tidligere militært område på Christianshavn som ble annektert av de såkalte slumstormerne høsten 1971.
Freetown Christiania at Christianshavn is one of Denmark’s most popular tourist attractions with its resident's controversial lifestyle.
10. aug. 2019 · Half a century after it was founded as a breakaway anarchist commune, Copenhagen’s Christiania faces an existential crisis variously blamed on intolerant local authorities, police ...
18. okt. 2023 · Christiania: Important Things to Know About Copenhagen’s Hippie “Free Town”. If you’ve heard of Freetown Christiania, the autonomous anarchist district in Denmark’s capital, it is probably due to the open cannabis trade that took place there for close to half a century. There’s a lot more to it than that, however.
5. des. 2023 · On an unseasonably sunny Saturday this fall, Freetown Christiania, a semiautonomous commune spread across 74 acres in the heart of Copenhagen, Denmark, crackled with life.
