Børsen (building)
Børsen is the former stock exchange in downtown Copenhagen . Until 1974 the business of the Copenhagen Fund Exchange (Københavns Fondsbørs) was done here. Today it is used as an office building.
On behalf of King Christian IV , the building was built between 1619 and 1640 in the style of the Dutch Renaissance . Laurens and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger worked as architects . The building is richly decorated on its gables and bay windows and extends over a length of 127 meters. Ludwig Heidritter's 56-meter-high ridge turret depicts four intertwined dragon tails and is one of Copenhagen's landmarks.
Erected on the eastern tip of the island of Slotsholmen , it is on the Holmens Canal opposite the Holmens Kirke and the Danish National Bank .
In 1857, when it was sold to an association of wholesalers, the house was the first building in Denmark to be listed as a historical monument.
On February 11, 1918, the building was stormed and looted by unemployed people.
Web links
- Børsen website (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Børsen: Børsen i årstal , accessed on March 12, 2012 (Danish)
- ^ Madeleine Reincke: Copenhagen . P. 136.
- ↑ Andrew Stone: Denmark , 2008, ISBN 3829716168 , p. 90.
- ↑ Børsen: Børsens historie , accessed on March 12, 2012 (Danish)
- ^ Carol Gold: Revolution i Danmark - 1918? , 1987, work history, no. 28.
Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 31.3 " N , 12 ° 35 ′ 4.3" E