Herakles og Hydraen

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In the port of Helsingor stands a bronze statue "Gerkules and Hydra "by sculptor Rudolph Tegner (Rudolph Tegner). The artist and his assistants started working on the statue and worked in 1919, took two years to implement the plan in a cast. In 1930, Rudolf Tegner offered Mayor Peder Christensen ( peder Christensen) to install the finished bronze statue at the breakwater in the harbor. The statue was inaugurated November 20, 1932. She was standing on a high granite pedestal in a granite bowl with brass railings and stood up to November 1990, when, in connection with the creation of new prich als, was dismantled after the restoration and storage for a few years, the statue was reopened 25 May 1994 on the northern pirse.V Elsinore not immediately all the people took the statue and gave it a different name, which is alive still -. "Chelovek struggling with tax inspectors "