Palægade

Street in Copenhagen, Denmark

55°40′54.84″N 12°35′13.56″E / 55.6819000°N 12.5871000°E / 55.6819000; 12.5871000

Palægade (literally "Mansion Street") is a street located close to Kongens Nytorv in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Bredgade in the east to Store Kongensgade in the west.

History

Palægade is one of the youngest streets in central Copenhagen. It takes its name after Palæhaven, an entertainment venue which had been established in the former garden of the Thott Mansion on Kongens Nytorv in the second half of the 19th century. It was entered through a gate in a building on Bredgade. Palægade was established in the 1870s.^[1]

Notable buildings and residents

The street is built over with four large properties all of which have been designed in the Historicist style with ample use of decorative elements and bay windows. The two buildings on the corners with Bredgade were designed by Emil Blichfeldt on collaboration with Gotfred Tvede. Built in 1899-1900, No. 1–3 has granite rustication on the ground floor and the corner is tipped by a small spire. ^[2] The building at the opposite corner (No. 2–4) is from 1800–02. A stucco dragon above the door at the corner carries a round turnet tipped by a copper spire. Small dragons also flank the other doors in the building.^[3] The two buildings in the Store Kongensgade end of the street were designed by Philip Smidth.

The Galleri Jules Julian art gallery is located at No. 7.^[4]

Image gallery

No. 1
Palægade 2-4
Close-up of the dragon on No. 2
Two dragons guarding the door at No. 2

References

^ "Palægade". Selskabet for Københavns Historie (in Danish). Retrieved 17 April 2016.
^ "Palægade 1-3/Bredgade 3". indenforvoldene.dkaccessdate=17 April 2016 (in Danish).
^ "Palægade 2-4". indenforvoldene.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 17 April 2016.
^ "Se tidens mest hippe popart-kunstner i Palægade". AOK (in Danish). Retrieved 17 April 2016.