Rahbeks Allé is a street located on the border between

Frederiksberg Frederiksberg () is a part of the Capital Region of Denmark. It is formally an independent municipality, Frederiksberg Municipality, separate from Copenhagen Municipality, but both are a part of the City of Copenhagen. It occupies an area of ...

and Vesterbro in

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

Vesterbrogade Vesterbrogade () is the main shopping street of the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. The 1.5 km long street runs from the City Hall Square in the east to Pile Allé in Frederiksberg in the west where it turns into Roskildevej. O ...

in the northeast to the corner of

Søndermarken Søndermarken ( lit. "The Southern Field") is a park in Frederiksberg on the border to Valby and the Carlsberg area in Copenhagen, Denmark. It shares much of its history with Frederiksberg Gardens from which it is separated only by Roskildevej. ...

in the southwest where it joins Pile Alle just before it turns into Valby Langgade on the border to

Valby Valby () is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is in the southwestern corner of Copenhagen Municipality, and has a mixture of different types of housing. This includes apartment blocks, terraced housing, areas with single ...

.The former Carlsberg brewery site which is under transformation into a new, dense neighbourhood is located on the south side of the street. Its north side is lined with low, mostly three-storey late-19th century apartment buildings with small front gardens.

History

The street is part of the old main road between Copenhagen's West Gate and

Roskilde Roskilde ( , ) is a city west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand. With a population of 51,916 (), the city is a business and educational centre for the region and the 10th largest city in Denmark. It is governed by the administrative ...

. The road made a detour by way of the village of

to avoid the steepest part of Valby Hill (later also referred to as Frederiksberg Hill) where

Frederiksberg Palace Frederiksberg Palace ( da, Frederiksberg Slot) is a Baroque residence, located in Frederiksberg, Denmark, adjacent to the Copenhagen Zoo. It commands an impressive view over Frederiksberg Gardens, originally designed as a palace garden in the ...

was built in 1700. The new and shorther Roskilde Road which went through the royal gardens of Frederiksberg Palace was inaugurated in 1776. Several industroaæ enterprises established along the street in the second half of the 19th century. The

Bing & Grøndahl Bing & Grøndahl was a Danish porcelain manufacturer founded in 1853 by the sculptor Frederik Vilhelm Grøndahl and merchant brothers Meyer Hermann Bing and Jacob Herman Bing. The trademark backstamp for Bing & Grøndahl (B&G) porcelains is the t ...

opened on the corner with Vesterbrogade in 1853. A brewery known simply as Bryggeriet i Rahbeks Allé opened on a neighbouring site (Rahbeks Allé 3) in 1860. In 1892 it merged with several other local breweries under the name De Forenede Bryggerier (United Breweries). The site was taken over by Kongens Bryghus in 1923 and became part of

Carlsberg Group Carlsberg A/S (; ) is a Danish multinational brewer. Founded in 1847 by J. C. Jacobsen, the company's headquarters is in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since Jacobsen's death in 1887, the majority owner of the company has been the Carlsberg Foundation. T ...

in 1970.

Notable buildings and residents

's former premises (Vesterbrogade 149), now called Bing's, has been converted into an office complex. It consists of 12 buildings and has a total floor area of approximately 35,000 square metres. It is owned by Aberdeen Asset Management and was most recently renovated in 2015. Most of the Kongens Bryghus buildings have been converted into offices. A silo now known as the Carlsberg Silo has been converted into apartments. No. 21 is the former Frederiksberg Åndsvageanstalt, a mental health treating institution for children built in 1860 to design by

Ferdinand Meldahl Ferdinand Meldahl (16 March 1827 – 3 February 1908) was a Danish architect best known for the reconstruction of Frederiksborg Castle after the fire in 1859. Meldahl was one of the leading proponents of historicism in Denmark. Biography He was ...

. It has later been used by Carlsberg and now houses the cloathing company By Malene Birger. Bakkehuset (No. 23) now serves as a historic house museum. On the other side of the street, at No. 34, is the entrance to another historic property, Ny Bakkegård, which is now hidden in the central courtyard of a perimeter block. It was owned by prime minister

Carl Christian Hall Carl Christian Hall (25 February 1812 – 14 August 1888) was a Danish statesman. Hall served as the Council President of Denmark (Prime Minister), first from 1857 to 1859 and again from 1860 to 1863. Early life Hall was the son of the highly r ...

from 1840 to 1881.

Notable people

(1812-1888), politician, lived at No. 34 in 1850 – 1856 and again in 1860 – 1888. * Johannes V. Jensen (1873-1950), author, lived on the 4th floor at No. 2C in 1923 – 1944.

References

External links

Masterplan
for the Rahbeks Allé area
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