Rosenvænget is a neighbourhood in the

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district of

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. Established in circa 1860, it was the first neighbourhood of

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in Denmark. Many of the old villas have survived but some of them have been replaced by taller buildings in the years after 1900. The area is bounded by the streets

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, Odensegade, Saabysgade and Næstvedgade. It comprises the streets Rosenvængets Hovedvej, Rosenvængets Sideallé and Kriegersgade.

History

Rosenvenge and Rosendal

The origins of the name can be traced back to 1688 when

Jens Toller Rosenheim Jens Toller Rosenheim (born 1636 in Christiania, died in 1690 in Dublin), was a Norwegian nobleman, jurist and official. Family and marriage Jens Toller was the son of Niels Toller (1592-1642), who was Mayor of Christiania (now Oslo) and one o ...

acquired a large piece of land at the site and renamed it Rosenvenge. He was sent to Ireland in 1689 where he died in

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in 1690. In the second half of the 18th centurym Rosenvænget belonged to merchant and ship-owner Reinhard von Iselin. The country house Rosendal was later built on part of the land. The house was located at the corner of present-day Østerbrogade and Slagelsegade. opposite Sortedam Lake. It was purchased by

Friederich Tutein Johann Friederich Tutein (9 September 1757 – 6 March 1853) was a Danish merchant, ship-owner and industrialist. He managed the family's trading house under the name Fr. Tutein & Co. from 1799. It mainly traded on the Danish colonies with its own ...

in 1802.

Redevelopment of the area

In 1857,

Mozart Waagepetersen Ludvig Lorentz Mozart Waagepetersen (22 October 1813 – 25 February 1885) was a Danish wine merchant. He is now mainly remembered for founding the Rosenvænget quarter of Østerbro in Copenhagen. Early life and education Mozart Waagepetersen wa ...

bought Rosendal from

's heirs. After Copenhagen's old fortification ring was decommissioned and its Eastern City Gate was demolished in 1859, it was decided to sell of the land in lots for redevelopment with large villas for members of the upper middle class. Servitudes ensured that the land could not be redeveloped with multi-storey buildings.

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