Suhmsgade 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

Landemærket Landemærket, literally "The Landmark", is a street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. It extends from Købmagergade along the north side of the Trinitatis Complex (Round Tower and Trinitatis Church, Guttenberghus and the Film House to Gothe ...

to Hauser Plads.

History

The street is relatively young. The street Pustervig was originally a cul-de-sac off the east side of

Købmagergade Købmagergade is a pedestrian shopping street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. It connects Amagertorv on Strøget to Nørreport station, although the last section, north of Kultorvet, is part of Frederiksborggade, which continues on the ...

. Suhmsgade was created as a link between Landemærket and the new square Hauser Plads following the British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807 which caused great destruction in the area. It was named after the writer and book collector

Peter Frederik Suhm Peter Frederik Suhm (18 October 1728 – 7 September 1798), was a Danish historian. Biography Suhm studied at the University of Copenhagen from 1746 to 1751, and one of his teachers was Ludvig Holberg. In 1749 he translated a comedy of Plautu ...

who had lived in a house nearby.

Notable buildings and residents

No. 4 was built for the school Vestre Betalingsskole in 1852 to design by P.C. Hagemann. The school at previously been located at

Nørregade Nørregade (literally "North Street") is a street in central Copenhagen, Denmark, linking Gammeltorv in the south with Nørre Voldgade in the north. Landmarks in the street include Church of Our Lady, Bispegården, St. Peter's Church and Folk ...

41. It moved to

Vester Voldgade Vester Voldgade ( lit. "West Rampart Street") is a street in Copenhagen, Denmark which runs from Jarmers Plads to the waterfront between Frederiksholms Kanal and Langebro, passing the City Hall Square on the way. Together with Nørre Voldgade an ...

and changed its name to Vester Voldgades Betalingsskole in 1890. The building in Suhmsgade is now home to Annemone Teatret. The building at the corner with Hauser Plads Suhmsgade 5/Hauser Plads 14) was built in 1855–56 by Mads Schifter Holm and was listed in 1945. The building at Suhmsgade 1-3-3b-c is from 1884. Suhmsgade 2 / Landemærket 19-25 is from 1966.

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