København's Politigård
Copenhagen Politigård or short Politigården is the headquarters of the police in the Danish capital Copenhagen . The building with a trapezoidal floor plan is located between Polititorvet , Niels Brocks Gade , Hambros Gade and Otto Mønsteds Gade in the southwest of Copenhagen city center ( Indre By ).
Politigård was built from 1918 to 1924 according to plans by the architect Hack Kampmann . After Kampmann's death in 1920, his son Hans Jørgen Kampmann , Holger Jacobsen and Aage Rafn took over the building. It is considered the peak and end point of neoclassicism in Denmark. According to an idea by Aage Rafn, it was given a circular inner courtyard with a diameter of 44 meters (area 1615 m²), which is bordered by 88 columns arranged in pairs, and a smaller rectangular inner courtyard (area 537 m²) with the sculpture Slangedræberen by Einar Utzon- Frank. On February 2, 1924, the building was handed over to its intended use when the 1st Police Inspectorate moved in. It has been a listed building since 1995.
In its function as police headquarters, the building (mostly the exterior view, partly also the round inner courtyard with the rows of columns) served as a location for films, such as the films of the Olsen Gang , Stealing Rembrandt - claws for beginners or the film adaptations of the special department Q series of Jussi Adler-Olsen , as well as for television series such as Die Brücke or Kommissarin Lund - Das Verbrechen .
Web links
- Københavns Politi - Politigården (PDF, Danish); published by the information department of the Copenhagen Police (Københavns Politis Informationsafdeling).
- Politigården at the Dansk Arkitektur Center (Danish).
- Politigårdens historie at Politimuseet (Danish).
Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 14 ″ N , 12 ° 34 ′ 18 ″ E