Knabrostræde is a street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Strøget (Vimmelskaftet/Nygade) in the northwest to Nybrogade at

Slotsholmen Canal Slotsholmen ( English: The Castle Islet) is an island in the harbour of Copenhagen, Denmark, and part of Copenhagen Inner City. The name is taken from the successive castles and palaces located on the island since Bishop Absalon constructed the ...

in the southeast, crossing

Strædet 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 off ...

(Kompagnistræde) on the way.

History

The street was originally called Knagerøgstræde (lit. Alley of the Creaking Back). It is believed that the name refers to the sound it made when people used a public outhouse located on a small jetty by the beach at the end of the street. The name is later seen in the form Knækrygstræde and in its current form from 1689: The street was almost completely destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795.

Notable buildings

The building at Knabrostræde 20/Kompagnistræde 21 is located where the Fire of 1795 stopped and the buildings at No. 20–30 (even numbers) all predate the fire and are all listed. Np. 26 was acquired by the organisation "Young Christians" (Danish: Unge Kristne) in the late 1960s and converted into a church under the name Soli Deo Gloria. It has since 2003 been known as Copenhagen Community Church and is now especially frequented by Copenhagen's Filipino community .

No. 30 is the former building of Det Ferske Fiskehandler-Kompagni, a company associated with the fishmongers at Gammel Strand. The building is from 1730. The Rococo-style Ziegler House on the other side of the street, whose front faces Nybrogade and the canal, is also from the 1830s. Most of the other buildings in the street date from the years immediately after the fire and are also listed. Knabrostræde 11-13 (1796–99) is part of

J.C. Jacobsen Jacob Christian Jacobsen (2 September 1811 – 30 April 1887), mostly known as J. C. Jacobsen, was a Denmark, Danish industrialist and philanthropist best known for founding the brewery Carlsberg Group, Carlsberg. Biography He had no formal acad ...

's first brewery. He later moved his business to Valby, renaming it

Carlsberg Carlsberg may refer to: Places * Carlsberg (district), a district in Copenhagen, Denmark ** Carlsberg station, its train station * Carlsberg, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Carlsberg Fjord, Greenland Other uses * Carlsbe ...

after his son Carl. Jacobsen was born around the corner at

Brolæggerstræde Brolæggerstræde (literally "Cobble-Layer Alley) is a street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark, linking Nytorv in the west with Badstuestræde in the east. Most of the buildings in the street date from the years after the Copenhagen Fire of ...

5 in 1811. Knabrostræde 19/Kompagnistræde 19 and 21 were built by

Johan Martin Quist Johan Martin Quist or Qvist (3 September 1755 – 25 April 1818) was a Danish architect who made a significant contribution to the city of Copenhagen. Together with those of Andreas Hallander, his classically styled buildings form part of the ...

. The night club Chateau Motel opened at Knabrostræde 3 in 2016, the former address of now closed Pan Club Copenhagen.

References

External links

Knabrostræde
at indenforvoldene.dk
1860 census
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