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Strædet (literally 'The Alley') is the colloquial name of a popular shopping and café street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark, linking Højbro Plads on Strøget at its eastern end with Regnbuepladsen next to City Hall to the west. The official street names are Læderstræde (until Hyskenstræde), Kompagnistræde (until Gåsestræde) and ...
Name Image Coordinates Length Landmarks Refs Åbenrå: 223 m: Danish Association of Architects: Ref: Adelgade: 345 m: Danish Association of Architects: Ref
Kronprinsensgade is one of the younger streets in the Old Town of Copenhagen. The city's first mail house, Postgården, was built at the site from where the street now extends from Købmagergade in 1727 but it was destroyed just one year later in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728 .
The main street is bound on the west by City Hall Square (Danish: Rådhuspladsen), the central town square by Copenhagen City Hall, and on the east by Kongens Nytorv ("The King's New Square"), another large square at the other end. But the Strøget area is actually a collection of streets that spread out from this central thoroughfare.
The street was extended when Copenhagen's Western Rampart was removed in the second half of the 19th century. Copenhagen Waterworks was built at the far end of the street in 1859. Am small park, Aborreparken, was established between the waterworks, Studiestræde, H. C. Andersens Boulevard and Vester Farimagsgade in 1886.
The fire began at around 8.30 a.m. local time (2.30 a.m. ET), a Copenhagen fire department chief told CNN, and by 11 a.m. nearly half of the building had been destroyed. The fire was still burning ...
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The new street was named Kronprinsessegade in honour of Crown Princess Marie Sophie, who had first conceived the idea. [1] At the same time, the name complied with the practice in the area of naming streets after Danish territorial possessions, royalty and the upper classes, including nobility, which originated in the 1649 plan for the New ...