Toldbodgade - South End
Toldbodgade (literal translation, lit. "Custom House Street") is a street in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It extends north from Nyhavn at the Nyhavn Bridge, continuing Holberggade, passes Sankt Annæ Plads after just one block, and continues straight until it reaches Vestindisk Pakhus, West India Warehouse where it makes a sharp left turn which connects it to Amaliegade, its parallel street, at the rear of the Danish Museum of Art & Design, Design Museum. The east side of the street is lined by a series of 18th century warehouses whose other sides face the Larsens Plads waterfront, which was a major hub for emigration to United States of America, America. History Origins The street traces its history back to Axel Ulstrup's New Copenhagen masterplan which recommended a regulation of the coastline north of the city, between Gammelholm, Bremerholm and the Nordre Toldbod, Custom House which had been built in 1630. The name originally only referred to the southernmost section of the ...
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