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Købmagergade 44
Købmagergade 44 is the former headquarters of Holger Petersen (Danish businessman), Holger Petersen's textile company in Copenhagen, Denmark. The present building on the site, which is from the 1880s, replaced the Det Kongelige Vajsenhus, Royal Waisen House (Danish language, Danish: Det Kgl. Waisenhus), a combined school and orphanagefor indigent children, which relocated to a new purpose-built school building on Nørre Farimagsgade. The institution's old building on Købmagergade was a former Baroque architecture, Baroque style town mansion from the 1740s, whose earlier residents included Russian envoy to Copenhagen Johann Albrecht Korff and businessmen Joost van Hemert, Joost and Peter van Hemert. From 1971 to 2017, University of Copenhagen's Department of Theology was based in the building. It is now part of the Trinity Quarter, a mixed-use complex owned by Hines Interests Limited Partnership, Hines, with a 24-hour boutique hotel, retail and six residential apartments. History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Vikings, Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. During the 16th century, the city served as the ''de facto'' capital of the Kalmar Union and the seat of the Union's monarchy, which governed most of the modern-day Nordic countries, Nordic region as part of a Danish confederation with Sweden and Norway. The city flourished as the cultural and economic centre of Scandinavia during the Renaissance. By the 17th century, it had become a regional centre of power, serving as the heart of the Danish government and Military history ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
