Palægaragerne ( lit.: The Mansion Garages) is an early Modernist parking facility and filling station located in a narrow courtyard at

Dronningens Tværgade Dronningens Tværgade ( lit. "The Queen's Cross Street") is a street in central Copenhagen, Denmark, which runs from Bredgade to Rosenborg Castle Garden. The street originally formed a link between the King's Garden (Rosenborg Castle Gardens) and t ...

4 in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built in the early 1930s and was the first multi-storey parking facility in Denmark. It takes its name after the neighboring

Moltke Mansion The Moltke's Mansion is a town mansion on the corner of Bredgade and Dronningens Tværgade in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is one of several town mansions in Frederiksstaden, although it actually predates the neighbourhood by half a century. It was bui ...

. The parking facility and the canopy over the filling station were listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the

Danish Heritage Agency The Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces ( da, Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen) is an agency under the aegis of the Danish Ministry of Culture. The agency carries out the cultural policies of the Danish government within the visual and performing arts, ...

on 13 July 1994. It is now owned by the property company Jeudan.

History

The building fronting the street (No. 4) and the adjacent building at No. 6 were both built by the master builder J. H. Lütthans. He was the owner of the

and the two buildings were constructed in its former gardens. The parking facility was built for the company A/S Løppenthin & Feilberg in response to the increasing number of cars in the city in the early 1930s. The complex was designed by Oscar Gundlach-Pedersen and built in 1932 vy the construction company Højgaard & Schultz. It was expand with two extra floors in 1934. It was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the

on 13 July 1994. The complex was refurbished for the owner Jeudan by Elgaard Architecture in 2012-2015.

Architecture

The five-level parking facility was designed with inspiration from American principles. It is built in reinforced concrete with iron windows. In front of the entrance to the parking facility is a filling station with a canopy remnicient of Arne Jacobsen's two years younger but more famous

Skovshoved Petrol Station The Skovshoved Petrol Station ( da, Skovshoved Tankstation) is a historic, still-operating filling station in Skovshoved at the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. First opened in 1936, it was designed by Arne Jacobsen and is an example of ...

. The service station also included a car wash.

Cultural references

The parking facility is used as a location in the 1977 film '' Alt på et bræt''.

History

Architecture

Cultural references

See also