Hyskenstræde is a street in the Old Town of
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
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. It runs from the pedestrian street
Strøget (Vimmelskaftet) in the northwest to
Kompagnistræde in the southeast from where it continues as
Naboløs
Naboløs (literally "Without Neighbours") is a short street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. All six properties in the street date from the rebuilding of the city in the years after the Copenhagen Fire of 1795 and have been added to the Da ...
for another block to
Gammel Strand
Gammel Strand (modern Danish for "old beach"; originally meant "the old shoreline", i.e. prior to land reclamations) is a street and public square in central Copenhagen, Denmark. On the south side it borders on the narrow Slotsholmens Canal whil ...
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History
The name is derived from the German word ''Häuschen'', meaning "Small Houses", a reference to the public toilets that were located on piles in the water at the far end of the street. One of the two public toilets, Østre Mag (Eastern "Mag", mag being another word for public toilet, cf.
Magstræde).), was located in front of the street.
In c. 1600, the street became known as Lasse Winders Stræde after city councilor Lars "Vinner" Nielsen. In the beginning of the 16th century, after the public toilet had been removed, the street once again became known as Hyskenstræde.
Notable buildings and residents
No. 3-5, No. 7, No. 9, No. 14 and No. 16 are all listed on the
Danish registry of protected buildings and places.
Commemorative plaque
On the facade of No. 10 is a plaque that commemorates that the composer
Hans Christian Lumbye
Hans Christian Lumbye (; 2 May 1810 – 20 March 1874) was a Danish composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, among other things.
Beginnings
As a child, he studied music in Randers and Odense, and by age 14 he was playing the trumpet in a ...
was born at the site on 2 May 1810.
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Cultural references
The street and the background for its name is mentioned in the beginning of Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales.
Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...
's 1858 short story ''Pebersvendens Natur''.
References
External links
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Hyskenstræde
Streets in Copenhagen
Odonyms referring to a building