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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 ...
Building on Strøget’s success, the network expanded piecemeal – another street and a few more squares were emptied of cars in 1968, and further closures took place in 1973, and 1992. [6] From the initial 15,800 square metres of the Strøget, Copenhagen’s central pedestrian network has expanded to about 100,000 square metres. [11]
Østbanegade is a street in Copenhagen, Denmark.It begins at Østerport Station on Oslo Plads and continues north along the west side of the railway tracks for about 2 kilometres to Aarhusgade where an underpass connects the street to the other side of the railway line.
The street name refers to Pilegården, a farm which was located at the site in the Middle Ages. [1] Pilegårde is first mentioned in 1419 and was divided into several smaller properties in 1579. [2] In the 16th century, Copenhagen's stud farm (Københavns Avlsgård), where the city's
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 ...
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.
"Silk Street") is a minor street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark, linking busy shopping street Købmagergade in the west with Pilestræde in the east. Sparekassen Bikuben's former headquarters at No. 6–8 is listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places. The entrance to department store Illum's multi-storey parking ...
The street was founded as the main street of a new community, known variously as Ny Holænnerby ("New Dutch Town") or Nt Amager ("New Amager"), which was founded when King Christian III transferred 20 Dutch families from Amager in 1651. [1] They built their tenant farms on both sides of the street. Allégade in circa 1890