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Øresund

Orallsundt; Oresunde; Oresundt; Sound; Sund; Sundt; Sunte; Øresund

Region/Country: Region/Land: , Denmark

Sea strait between the island of Zealand and Skåne, the southern tip of the Scandinavian peninsula. Foreign ships passing through the Øresund had to pay the Sound toll, the main source of income for the Danish king for centuries. The toll was enforced by the cannons of castle Kronborg in Helsingør, at the narrowest part of the strait.

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16020830HAM00

1602, August 30

Hamburg

Hamburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: witness accounts of eight persons who sailed with Johan Holtgreve from Helsingør to Spakenefeldshovede in Iceland, who was accused by Copenhagen merchants that he interfered with their business by visiting the harbour Botsand. They tell how they could not reach Spakenefeldtshovede because of the sea ice, and were welcomed by the locals in Botsand because the Danish merchants in Kibbelwick would not trade with them.

16450000OLD00

After 1645

Oldenburg

Citizens of Oldenburg to king Christian IV of Denmark: request for permission to trade with Iceland again, after the Danish king has given them toll exemptions in the Sound and in Norway, like the merchants of Holland, in 1645.

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