Forhåbningsholms Allé
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Forhåbningsholms Allé is a street in the
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district of
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,
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. It runs from
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in the south to
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in the north. Notable buildings in the street include the Immanuel Church from 1893 (No. 20A) and the former country house Forhåbningsholm (No. 23) for which the street is named.


History

The merchant Henning Frederik Bargum bought a piece of land and constructed the country house Forhåbningsholm at the site in 1765. Bargum was that same year a driving force behind the establishment of Det danske Guineiske Kompagni. On 18 March 1765, he was granted a 20-year monopoly on slave trade from the
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and on 1 November that same year a royal concession on the fortresses of Christiansborg and Fredensborg. The business plan was to purchase gold, ivory, and slaves on the Danish Gold Coast, then sell the slaves in the
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and return with raw sugar to Denmark. Three ships were initially acquired of which the first departed from Copenhagen on 8 January 1766. The company went bankrupt in 1775. Betgum had fled the country the previous year. A later owner, Arthur Howden, a Scotchman, operated the estate as a workhouse. His countryman, Alexander Mitchell, established a production of stockings at the site in the early 1780s. The house was later operated as a training facility for brewers. Henning Wolff, Frederiksberg's first city architect, created a masterplan for a new neighbourhood of
single-family detached home A single-family detached home, also called a single-detached dwelling, single-family residence (SFR) or separate house is a free-standing residential building. It is defined in opposition to a multi-family residential dwelling. Definitions ...
s in the area. It involved an extension of Forhåbningsholms Allé all the way to Niels Ebbesens Vej. The street was at the same time lined with trees. Wolff was also responsible for the construction of two houses for employees at nearby Kongens Bryghus on Vodroffsvej but they have later been demolished. Some of the houses along the street were later replaced by taller apartment buildings. Birgitte Berg Nielsens opened Birgitte Berg Nielsens Husholdningsskole at No. 18 in 1905. The trees that used to line the street disappeared when the street was refurbished in 1942–43,


Notable buildings

The Immanuel Church (No. 20A) belongs to ''Københavns Valgmenighed'', a Grundtvigian congregation under
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. The building was designed by Andreas Clemmesen and completed in 1893. The artists
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and
Joakim Skovgaard Joakim Frederik Skovgaard (18 November 1856 – 9 March 1933) was a Danish painter. He is remembered above all for the frescos which decorate Viborg Cathedral. Biography Born in Copenhagen, from an early age he was trained in drawing and paintin ...
and Niels Larsen Stevns, all three members of the congregation, decorated the church building together with a group of other artists, providing a series of glass mosaics above the entrances as well as the church furnishings. Forhåbningsholm (No. 24) is now owned by Frederiksberg Municipality and operated as a daycare.


Notable people

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Kristian Arentzen Kristian August Emil Arentzen (10 November 1823 - 30 December 1899) was a Danish writer, literary historian and educator. Biography Arentzen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the son of Gunder August Arentzen and Marie Elisabeth Smidt. I ...
(1823–1899), writer and educator, lived at No. 3 in 1883–99. *
Dan Turèll Dan Turèll (March 19, 1946 – October 15, 1993), affectionately nicknamed " Danny" (English: ''Uncle Danny''), was a popular Danish writer with notable influence on Danish literature. His work crossed a number of genres including autobiography ...
(1946–1993), writer


See also

* Schønbergsgade


References


External links

{{Commons Streets in Frederiksberg