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24-467: After the Copenhagen Fire of 1795 , which destroyed large parts of the city, there was an urgent need for new housing. Instigated by his consort, Crown Princess Marie Sophie , Crown Prince Frederik (VI) made an 89 ell (55.8 meter) strip along the southern boundary of Rosenborg Castle Garden available for the establishment of a new street which was to connect Gothersgade to Sølvgade. The new street

48-526: A connected building with a sail that constantly had water poured on it. Supreme Court Justice Peter Uldall (Danish title: justitsråd ) saved his mansion in Vimmelskaftet by paying a large party to stay and put out any embers. It also prevented the fire from spreading to the northern side of the plaza, so only the southern side burned down. The fire died out on Sunday, 7 July, around 4 pm. It had destroyed 909 houses and partially damaged 74. Just over 6,000 of

72-540: A few houses from before the 18th century remain in that part of the city. More historic buildings in Copenhagen would be lost to fire in 1807 when the city was bombarded by the British . The fire was a strong contributing factor to the foundation of Denmark's first credit institution, Kreditkassen for Husejerne i Kjøbenhavn, in 1797. After the fire, a large-scale plan was designed by the city planner Jørgen Henrich Rawert and

96-529: A menace to the adjacent Royal Theatre and other prominent buildings in the area. The severe cholera outbreak which hit Copenhagen in the summer of 1853 made it clear that the canal posed a hazard to the health of the population. When the Navy decommissioned their last operations in the area in 1859, it was decided to fill the canal in connection with the redevelopment of the Gammelholm neighbourhood, converting it into

120-524: A street. The new street was inaugurated in 1864. It was the first street in Copenhagen to be installed with pavements and individually numbered houses. A new building for the National Bank of Denmark designed by Johan Daniel Herholdt was built in the street between 1865 and 1870. The large statue of Niels Juel was installed in 1881 to commemorate his achievements in the Battle of Køge Bay in 1677. It

144-462: The Navy's magazine for coal and timber , the so-called Dellehave . As the workers had already gone home, a considerable length of time passed before efforts to combat the fire started, and out of fear of theft, the fire hydrants had been removed. The people of Holmen also blocked the civilian fire brigade, possibly in the belief that since it was a military area, the military should take care of it. There had been an extended period without rain and

168-410: The composer Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse lived in the building from 1825. 55°41′11″N 12°35′02″E  /  55.68639°N 12.58389°E  / 55.68639; 12.58389 Copenhagen Fire of 1795 The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 ( Københavns brand 1795 ) started on Friday, 5 June 1795, at or around 3 pm by the Navy's old base south east of Kongens Nytorv on Gammelholm , in

192-399: The construction master Peter Meyn . The plan dictated the newly constructed houses should be made of masonry (instead of being timber-framed) and house corners at intersections should be diagonal and the streets straightened so that the fire department's long ladder companies could navigate the streets more easily. City planners also decreed that the new stone buildings could not be taller than

216-457: The dry wood, combined with the storage of rope work and tar, made the fire spread quickly. The wind blew especially strong from east-southeast, and that meant the countless embers were carried through the air into the city. Because of the strong sunlight, small fires were difficult to detect until they have taken hold. This is why the fire spread from Gammelholm to the main magazine along Holmens Canal ( Holmens Kanal Danish) and over Holmens Canal to

240-460: The fire, that the water hoses could not be brought close to the fire. Soon the church burned to the ground, and with it the pumps. At that point, the Saint Nicolai quarter could not be saved. The majority of the residents in the area threatened by the fire chose to flee, but in some places residents chose to stay in their houses and fight the fire. This happened in the first three to four houses on

264-460: The just under 100,000 residents in the capital were made homeless. A large number of them took refuge in the ruins of the recently burned-down Christianborgs Castle, the remaining walls of which were so large that an entire family could move into a window niche. The stables were also used as housing. The fire had, together with Copenhagen's fire of 1728, in effect burned down almost the whole of Copenhagen's medieval and Renaissance heritage and so only

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288-469: The north side of Østergade. Here people spread themselves throughout the houses both inside and out, armed with buckets and plenty of water. This prevented the fire from taking hold and saved the neighbouring street of Købmagergade at the same time, since it would have inevitably have spread to there as well. Royal advisor Carsten Anker (Danish title: konferensråd ) had his mansion on the corner of Vingårdsstræde and Kongens Nytorv saved by covering both it and

312-455: The pressure to such a level that it could deliver one barrel of water per minute from the hose. But when a spark set fire to the church tower, nobody could find the key to the door of the pumping station. Only some time later did anyone think of kicking the door in. By then, the fire had already taken hold and the residents in the surrounding quarter were panicked. The road became so full of people, who were also transporting furniture to safety from

336-570: The project which began in 1799. The row of houses along the south side of the street was completed over the next two decades. The architect Johan Martin Quist is one of the large contributors to this oldest section of Kronprinsessegade with No. 6 (1803–06), 8-10 (1803–04), 12-14 (1805–06), 16 (1806–07) and 18 (1807–13). Andreas Hallander designed No. 20 (1805–06, with J. H. Rawert), 22, 24 (1807–08, with A. C. Wilcken) and Kronprinsessegades Barracks at No. 46 (extension 1805–07, with J. H. Rawert). Peter Meyn

360-480: The quarter around Saint Nicolai Church and from there, along Gammel Strand to the area around Nytorv / Gammeltorv . Right by Saint Nicolai Church , after the Copenhagen Fire of 1728 , infrastructure to fight fires had been constructed because the area was very densely built up. A basin that could hold 400 barrels of water had been excavated for use. In addition, a pumping station was built that could pump water through an 800-foot-long hose. The pumps were able to raise

384-558: The street: " ...Together with P. Meyn, he [J.H. Rawert] is renowned for one of the finest street scenes in Copenhagen: Kronprinsessegade, a street which, like the Amalienborg neighbourhood , has been carefully planned, both in terms of width ond height. Here the Copenhagen traditions of Eigtved 's town house architecture live on, creating an atmosphere akin to that of a London square. " A plaque on No. 36 commemorates that

408-401: The through traffic continues straight along Niels Juels Gade . The street was originally a canal, hence the name, but was filled in the 1860s. Today it is dominated by bank and government buildings. Holmens Kanal was created when Christian IV extended Copenhagen's East Rampart straight through Bremerholm as part of his upgrade of the city's fortifications . The moat in front of the rampart

432-430: The width of the street to prevent future fires. 55°40′41″N 12°35′20″E  /  55.678°N 12.589°E  / 55.678; 12.589 Holmens Kanal Holmens Kanal is a short street in central Copenhagen . Part of the main thoroughfare of the city centre , it extends from Kongens Nytorv for one block to a junction with a statue of Niels Juel where it turns right towards Holmens Bro while

456-490: Was also charged with the design of a barrier towards the royal garden along the north side of the new street. He had just returned from Paris where he had been struck by the Pont-Neuf with its iron grill and many small shops, and the street life which surrounded it. With this as an inspiration, he designed the new grill along the edge of the park with 12 small shop pavilions, each six ells wide, six ells deep and six ells tall. It

480-463: Was completed in 1806. The houses along the oldest section of the street, facing Rosenborg Castle Garden, are mostly built in a Neoclassical style typical of the construction boom during the decades after the Great Fire of 1795 and which still dominates in much of central Copenhagen. The architect, architectural writer and urban planner Steen Eiler Rasmussen has given the following characterisation of

504-547: Was designed by the sculptor Theobald Stein and cast in bronze. In 2002 the city council decided to move the statue to a new site on the waterfront to make way for a more efficient distribution of the traffic at its busy junction. This decision was met with severe criticism, including protests from the Royal Naval Museum , and in 2003 the Danish Heritage Agency decided to stop the move. Egon Ove Sprogøe steals

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528-686: Was dug in 1606 and became known as the Canal of Holmen (Holmens Kanal) when it was expanded to serve as a new harbour for the Royal Fleet after its ships had become too large to enter the Arsenal Harbour further south. A street named Størrestrædet ran along the street from circa 1650. It was part of a small new neighborhood in which most of the streets—;with names such as Laksegade , Ulkegade, Hummergade and Delfingade—;were named after fish species and other sea creatures. Several public buildings

552-528: Was named Kronprinsessegade in honour of Crown Princess Marie Sophie, who had first conceived the idea. At the same time, the name complied with the practice in the area of naming streets after Danish territorial possessions, royalty and the upper classes, including nobility, which originated in the 1649 plan for the New Copenhagen extension of the fortified city. City architect Peter Meyn (1749–1808) and Jørgen Henrich Rawert (1751–1823) were put in charge of

576-474: Was situated along the canal, including the General Commissioner's Office ( Generalkommissionariatet ). The canal lost its practical use after the naval fleet relocated to Nyholm , a newly reclaimed area north of Christianshavn on the other side of the harbour. Holmens Kanal deteriorated into an open sewer fed by the city's extensive system of gutters and a notorious nesting ground for rats which were

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