3-016-981 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War in Denmark: view of Aalborg, in Jutland, now occupied by the Prussian army, 1864. Engraving of a sketch '...by Mr. C. Murray from the pleasure-gardens to the south of the town, looking across the Lümfjorden to the opposite town of Sundby...The town of Aalborg, which is the principal place in Jutland, [is] now occupied by the Prussian and Austrian troops. Aalborg is situated on the south side of the narrow entrance of the Lümfjord (pronounced Lymfiord), a vast inland lake, which is connected by straits and firths both with the German Ocean and the Baltic, thus separating the most northerly part of Jutland from the mainland of that peninsula, and enabling vessels which draw 12 ft. of water to pass from the North Sea into the Cattegat. The town itself contains about ten thousand inhabitants. It is the seat of a bishopric, and has a gymnasium or college, a good library, a school of navigation, an hospital, and several other public institutions. A considerable trade is carried on, and a productive herring fishery; the town derives its name from the immense quantities of eels which are taken in the neighbouring waters'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.