Ring 1, or ''Ringgaden'', is a
ring road
A ring road (also known as circular road, beltline, beltway, circumferential (high)way, loop or orbital) is a road or a series of connected roads encircling a town, city or country. The most common purpose of a ring road is to assist in reducin ...
that surrounds the most central part of
Aarhus
Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...
,
Denmark
Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
, roughly bounding the neighborhood of
Midtbyen. It is part of the
Danish national road network and is numbered O1, denoting a ring road. The total length of the road is about 8.8 km.
Geography
Ring 1 connects the major road Marselis Boulevard in the south with Grenåvej in the north at
Marienlund. Ringgaden is subdivided according to the geographical location and is named like this (south to north):
History
Ideas for a ring road around Aarhus materialised politically in 1919, and it was subsequently constructed in several stages, beginning in 1923 and finishing in 1938.
[See ''"Nordre Ringgade"''.]
See also
*
Ring 2 (Aarhus)
Ring 2, or ''Ringvejen'', is the outermost ring road surrounding the city of Aarhus in Denmark.
Geography
Ring 2 bounds the outer neighborhoods of the central urban area. It is part of the Danish national road network and is numbered O2, th ...
References
Sources
* Aarhus Municipality
Nordre Ringgade Kommuneatlas
External links
Ring roads in Denmark
Transport in Aarhus
Infrastructure in Aarhus
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