Aggersborggade is a street in the

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district of

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. It runs from Classensgade in the south to Holsteinsgade in the north and is intersected by Willemosegade. Aggersborggade_01

History

The street takes its name after broker Hans Christian Aggersborg (1812–1895), a founding partner of Bechgaard & Aggersborg, who purchased a piece of land at the site when Classen's Garden was sold off in lots in 1846. A number of former fishing ponds connected by canals were located on the land. He constructed a country house on a small isle in one of the lakes, naming it Aggersborg. He lived in an apartment at

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4 but spent the summers in Østerbro. Aggersborg was the maternal uncle of the painter P. C. Skovgaard. Skovgaard, who was from

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, had lived with Aggersborg when he just 14 years old moved to Copenhagen to study at the Royal Danish Art Academy. Skovgaard's children—

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, and

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—spent a lot of time at Villa Aggersborg. Hans Christian Aggersborg kept Villa Aggersborg until his death in 1895 but it had by then fallen into a state of disrepair. The house was then demolished, the lakes filled and the land had three years later been sold off in lots. The street was originally a private road linking Classensgade with Holsteinsgade.

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Images
at Villa Aggerborg at kbhbilleder.dk Streets in Østerbro {{Denmark-road-stub