Østerbro Østerbro () is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen Municipality, Denmark. It is located just north of the city centre, outside the old city gate Østerport which, after it was moved around 1700, used to be located close to present-day ...

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

Parken Stadium Parken, currently known as Parken - Connected by 3 for sponsorship reasons, and as Telia Parken (2014–2020), is a Soccer-specific stadium, football stadium in the Indre Østerbro (''Inner Østerbro'') district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from ...

Fælledparken The park Fælledparken in Copenhagen, Denmark, was created 1906–1914 by landscape architect Edvard Glæsel in cooperation with the Copenhagen Municipality on the commons (Danish: ''fælled'') previously named ''Nørrefælled'' and ''Østerfæ ...

City Circle Line The M3 line or City Circle Line is a loop line of the Copenhagen Metro. It has been claimed by COWI A/S that the line is the largest construction project to have taken place in Copenhagen during the last 400 years.Trianglen station to the south, and Vibenshus Runddel station to the north.

History

The street follows the course of a dirt track which from the early 17th century connected

Østerbrogade Østerbrogade is the principal shopping street and thoroughfare in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It extends from Lille Triangel at the north-eastern tip of The Lakes, passes Trianglen, and continues to Svanemøllen station fro ...

(the East Road) to Vibenhus across Østerfælled, one of the

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which surrounded Copenhagen until the mid-19th century. The track was expanded and converted into a tree-lined avenue in 1750. The trees came from

Kongens Nytorv Kongens Nytorv (literal translation, lit. "The King's New Square") is a town square, public square in Copenhagen, Denmark, centrally located at the end of the Pedestrian zone, pedestrian street Strøget. The largest square of the city, it was l ...

, when the circle of trees surrounding the equestrian statue of

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was removed. The trees have since been renewed on several occasions and many have been replaced by street-side parking. When Copenhagen began to develop beyond its former Fortification Ring, which was decommissioned in the 1850s, only the first part of the north-east side of the street was built over. A large portion of Østerfælled remained open and in 1908 was turned into

Fælledparken The park Fælledparken in Copenhagen, Denmark, was created 1906–1914 by landscape architect Edvard Glæsel in cooperation with the Copenhagen Municipality on the commons (Danish: ''fælled'') previously named ''Nørrefælled'' and ''Østerfæ ...

park. A narrow strip of land on the south-west side of the street was reserved for redevelopment a few years later.

Notable buildings and structures

On the north-east side of the street, at No. 6, is the former Østerbro Power Station. It was designed by city architect

Ludvig Fenger Ludvig Peter Fenger (7 July 1833 – 9 March 1905) was a Danish architect. He was a proponent of the Historicist style, and from 1886 to 1904 he held the title of City Architect in Copenhagen. Among his works are several churches, the Centr ...

and opened in 1902. Between the power station and

Parken Stadium Parken, currently known as Parken - Connected by 3 for sponsorship reasons, and as Telia Parken (2014–2020), is a Soccer-specific stadium, football stadium in the Indre Østerbro (''Inner Østerbro'') district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built from ...

(No. 50), are two examples of workers' housing. The older one is

Brumleby Brumleby is an enclave of terraced houses in Copenhagen, Denmark, located between Øster Allé and Østerbrogade, just south of Parken Stadium and St. James' Church, Copenhagen, St. James' Church. Built for indigent workers by the Danish Medical A ...

, whose first stage with its 240 diminutive dwellings was designed by

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and completed in 1857. It is considered to be Denmark's first example of social housing and was one of the first structures to be built on Østerbro. Between Brumleby and Østerbro Power Station, on both sides of Olufsgade, a short street connecting Øster Allé to

Østerbrogade Østerbrogade is the principal shopping street and thoroughfare in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It extends from Lille Triangel at the north-eastern tip of The Lakes, passes Trianglen, and continues to Svanemøllen station fro ...

, is one of the Workers' Building Society's smaller developments of terraced housing. On the south-west side of Øster Allé, No. 1 is the former Østerbro Post and Telegraph Office from 1920. The Neoclassical building was designed by

Thorvald Jørgensen Thorvald Jørgensen (27 June 1867 - 15 May 1946) was a Danish architect, most known for his design of Christiansborg Palace, the seat of the Danish Parliament, after it had been destroyed in a fire. He has also designed a number of churches in ...

, who also designed

Christiansborg Palace Christiansborg Palace (, ) is a palace and government building on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the seat of the Danish Parliament (), the Danish Prime Minister's Office, and the Supreme Court of Denmark. Also ...

. Its main façade, with four large columns and a flight of steps the full width of the building, faces a space on the corner with Blegdamsvej. The symmetrical building at No. 26, Fredenshus, was completed for the Association for the Education of Apprentices (Danish: Foreningen til Lærlinges Uddannelse) to a design by Søren Lemche in 1915. No. 33 is the former home of businessman Aage Heyman. The building was constructed in 1918 to designs by the architect Gotfred Tvede It now houses the embassy of the United Arab Emirates.

Monuments

On the northeast side of the street stands a stone popularly known as the Struense Stone, referring to

Johann Friedrich Struensee Count, Lensgreve Johann Friedrich Struensee (5 August 1737 – 28 April 1772) was a German-Danish physician, philosopher and statesman. He became royal physician to the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish gov ...

who was executed on the Eastern Common in 1772. The stone has, however, nothing to do with Struense being a quarter milestone installed in 1698 in connection with

Ole Rømer Ole Christensen Rømer (; 25 September 1644 – 19 September 1710) was a Danes, Danish astronomer who, in 1676, first demonstrated that light travels at a finite speed. Rømer also invented the modern thermometer showing the temperature between ...

's survey of Denmark. It indicated there was a quarter of a mile (1.75 km) to the Eastern City Gate.

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