Øresundsvej is a street in the

East Amager East is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that eas ...

district of

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. It runs from

Amagerbrogade Amagerbrogade is the main shopping street and thoroughfare of the part of Copenhagen, Denmark that is located on the island of Amager. It begins at the end of the causeway which connects Amager to Christianshavn and the city centre on the other si ...

in the west to Amager Strandvej in the east.

History

Øresundsvej is the old main street of the village of

Sundbyøster Sundbyøster () is one of the 15 administrative, statistical, and tax city districts (''bydele'') comprising the municipality of Copenhagen, Denmark. It lies on the southeast border of the municipality on the island of Amager. It covers an area o ...

. All the farms of the village lined the street in a row, with cultivated land on one side and pastures on the other. The street began to change in 1755 when a royal charter allowed craftsmen and sailors to settle in Sundby Øster and Sundbyvester. The surrounding farmland was sold off in lats in the late 19th century. The first part of the street was gradually built over with taller buildings after the turn of the century. Several large industrial plants opened at the far end of the street in the 1910s and 1920s. One of them, was

Nielsen & Winther Nielsen & Winther was a Denmark, Danish machine factory and aeroplane manufacturer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. History The machine factory was founded in 1873. It was from 1899 to 1916 based in a building at Blegdamsvej 60 designed by Axel Berg ...

, a

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and aeroplane manufacturer previously based on

Blegdamsvej Blegdamsvej is a street in Copenhagen, Denmark, connecting Sankt Hans Torv in Nørrebro to Trianglen in Østerbro. The busy artery Fredensgade separates the Nørrebro and Østerbro sections of the street from each other. The north side of the str ...

. The company inaugurated a large factory at Øresundsvej 147 in 1917. The complex was designed by Frederik Wagner. Just a few years later, in 1921, it was taken over by Vølund.

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opened a large cable factory on a neighbouring site in 1908.

Notable buildings

Amager Kulturpunkt (No. 6), is a local cultural centre that comprises a number of different venues. Amager Bio, a music venue, is located in a former cinema from 1941. Ama'r is a cultural centre specially for children.

Transport

Two metro stations, Lergravsparken and

Øresund Øresund or Öresund (, ; ; ), commonly known in English as the Sound, is a strait which forms the Denmark–Sweden border, Danish–Swedish border, separating Zealand (Denmark) from Scania (Sweden). The strait has a length of ; its width var ...

, north of the M2 line, are located on the street.

References

External links

{{Amager Streets in Amager