Amaliegade () is a street in central

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, which makes up the longer of the two axes on which the

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district

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is centred. Amaliegade extends from Sankt Annæ Plads to Esplanaden, passing through the central plaza of

Amalienborg Palace Amalienborg () is the official residence for the Danish royal family and is located in Copenhagen. Frederick VIII's palace complex has four identical Classical façades, effectively four palaces, with Rococo interiors, laid around an octagona ...

on the way where it intersects Frederiksgade, the other, shorter but more prominent, axis of the district. The street is dominated by a number of elegant mansions, most of which are from the second half of the 18th century. At Amalienborg Palace, Amaliegade is spanned by a colonnade. Designed by royal architect

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, it was built in 1794–95 to connect Moltke's Palace, the residence of the king, to Schack's Palace where the Crown prince resided.

Notable buildings

No. 9: Collin's House

Collin's Gouse (Danish. Den Collinske Gård) was built in 1751–1752 for bootmaker Peder Svendsen. The House breaks with schematic guidelines stipulated by Eigtved. It is receded from the street.

Jonas Collin Jonas Collin (6 January 1776 – 28 August 1861) was a Danish civil servant and patron of the arts. He took care of Hans Christian Andersen when the later writer first arrived in Copenhagen as a child and remained his loyal friend and supporter ...

, a prominent citizen of his day, lived in the house from 1839–1861 and during those years

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was a frequent visitor to the house.

No. 15–17

Built 1754–56. They were designed by Nicolai Eigtved as two symmetrical houses of which one has been given an extra floor.

No. 18: The Yellow Mansion

The Yellow Palace, or Bergum's Palace, was built 1759–1764 by the architect

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for the timber merchant and slave trader H. F. Bargum. It is considered the first example of

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in Copenhagen. Today it houses the Lord Chamberlain’s Office. King Frederick VI purchased the palace in 1810 to use it as a guest residence for visiting relatives of the royal family. In 1837 King Frederik VII handed the property over to his nephew Prince Christian of Glücksborg, who was later to become

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as the first

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king of Denmark, who took up residence in the building and lived there until moving into Amalienborg Palace in 1865. Prince Valdemar lived in the Yellow Palace until his death in 1939 as its last royal resident.

Np. 21

No. 21 is the Italian ambassador's residence in Copenhagen.

No. 23 and 23b

Amaliegade and 23B are two houses but the latter is entered through the gateway of the former. Both 23, 23b and the adjoining house at No. 25 are today used by the Danish Social Appeals Board No. 23 was designed by Nicolai Eigtved and built 1752–53 in Rococo style for mayor Johan Johansen. The house at No. 23b was built as an infill on the empty lot between Eigtved's Rococo house at No. 23 and de Thurah's Baroque house at No. 25 between 1785 and 1787. It was designed by Joseph Guione in Neoclassical style.

No. 25: Lauritz de Thurah's House

Built 1755–1757,

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built this house for his own use after returning to Copenhagen to direct the redevelopment of the Frederiksstaden district. During the same years de Thurah built Gammel Holtegård north of Copenhagen as a country house with a fine Baroque garden and he may have over-spent on his building projects. Thus he never moved into No. 25 Amaliegade, instead, it was rented out upon completion.

No. 26–30

Built 1896 to the design of architect Ole Boye. Notable for its painted animal frieze depicting

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, fish and frogs. In its centre stand two tigers head-to-head next to rows of penguins.

No. 33

No. 33 is the Danish Shipowners' Association.

No. 49

Built by carpenter and builder

Andreas Hallander Andreas Hallander (13 November 1755 – 3 April 1828) was a Danish master carpenter and architect who made a significant contribution to the city of Copenhagen. Together with the buildings of Johan Martin Quist, his classically styled apartment h ...

in 1788. It has seven bays separated by Ionic

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s and another typical Neoclassical decoration is a "running dog". The relief in the triangular

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is an early work by

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depicting a female figure with a monocular next to a

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decorated with a

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Cultural references

Egon ( Ove Sprogøe) chairs a board meeting at Amaliegade 39 at 1:38:36 in the 1975 ''

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'' film '' The Olsen Gang on the Track''.

References

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Amaliegade 13

1834 census

1840 census

1845 census
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