Øresund

Geographical location

The Oresund ( Danish spelling: Øresund; historical German name: Sund ) is the strait between Zealand (Denmark) and Skåne (Sweden), which connects the Baltic Sea with the Kattegat.

History

9,000 years ago the Scandinavian Shield began - freed from the burden of glacial ice - to tilt. He raised and lowered in the north to the south. The North Sea water entered from the north in the Baltic Sea Region a, flooded the former mainland and created in the following millennia, the Danish islands and sounds, its continued existence, however, considering dramatically increasing levels of the oceans is not currently guaranteed with certainty.

From 1429 to 1857 Denmark got a Sundzoll for the passage of vessels. By the Peace of Roskilde in 1658 included the Scanian shore of the Sound to Denmark.

Plans for a fixed link across the Sound, there were already in the 19th century. Plans for a railway tunnel ( the so-called HH tunnel between Helsingborg and Helsingør ) will be discussed again and again. In the 1960s, the founder of the Packing Group Tetra Pak, Ruben Rausing was, even to the idea of ​​having to drain the water street and building in the area of Ørestad. The oil crisis prevented this bold plan final.

The Oresund connection was on 1 July 2000 by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI. Gustaf of Sweden inaugurated.

Islands

In the Öresund Islands Ven lie ( to Sweden) and Amager, Saltholm and the artificial island Peberholm (all to Denmark).

Compounds

The two largest cities at Øresund Copenhagen and Malmö, which are connected by the Øresund link together to Oresund Region. The shortest ferry across the Sound is between the Danish Helsingør and Helsingborg, Sweden. There, north of Copenhagen and Malmö, located about four kilometers with the narrowest part of the strait.

Meanwhile, the new Oresund connection is completed and open to traffic. It connects Denmark and Sweden for the first time directly.

Navigation

In a four -year trial period showed the Danish-Swedish vessel traffic monitoring that 200 events required active counseling for the prevention of unsafe navigation and emergence. Since September 1, 2011, therefore all vessels over 300 GRT must log in to SOUNDREP if they want to go through the Sound, at Kullen in the north and at Trelleborg in the south.

Images and Maps

Öresund 1888

The northern part of the Sound