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Bodenhoffs Plads is an area located in the north-eastern part of
Christianshavn Christianshavn () is a neighbourhood in Copenhagen, Denmark. Part of the Indre By District, it is located on several artificial islands between the islands of Zealand and Amager and separated from the rest of the city centre by the Inner Harbour, ...
,
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 ...
. The site is separated from
Grønlandske Handels Plads (Kongelige) Grønlandske Handels Plads (English language, English: "(Royal) Greenland Dock") is a waterfront area at the end of Strandgade in the northwestern corner of the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. The area is bounded ...
to the west by
Christianshavns Kanal Christianshavns Kanal ( English: Christianshavn Canal) is a canal in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. Running northeast–southwest, it bisects the neighbourhood along its length. To the north it connects to Trangraven, th ...
and by Trangraven from Holmen to the north. It is connected to both areas by the three-way footbridge Trangravsbroen.


History


Andreas Bodenhoff

The area was reclaimed by
Andreas Bodenhoff Andreas Bodenhoff (5 January 1723 – 8 August 1794) was a Danish merchant, shipowner and ship builder. He has left his name in posterity for reclaiming the area now known as Bodenhoffs Plads on Christianshavn in Copenhagen. He was the largest p ...
from 1766 onwards and became known as Bodenhoffs Plads after him. Bodenhoff was the largest supplier of timber for the state from 1652 until 1693. The site was conviently located close to the Royal Danish Dockyard. Bodenhoffs Plads was originally separated from the rest of Christianshavn by a canal, just like Bjørnsholm, on the other side of Christianshavn Canal, which had been reclaimed some ten years prior by
Andreas Bjørn Andreas Bjørn (28 October 1703 – 27 January 1750) was a Danish merchant, shipbuilder and ship owner. Early life Andreas Bjørn was born (as Anders Bjørn, name later changed to Andreas Bjørn) in Skælskør to Mads Andersen Bjørn and Karen ...
. The site was initially used for storage of timber. Bodenhoff died in 1794. In 1771, Bodenhoff established his own shipuard on the site. The first ship )120 ''læster'') was launched on 14 December. It was given the name named ''Margaretha Maria'' after Bodenhoff's eldest daughter. By 1779, Bodenhoff had a fleet of 28 ships of which 17 ships traded abroad. Bodenhoff's shipyard would later also work for the navy. The first naval ships constructed at Bodenhoffs Plads were '' Store Bælt'' (1782), '' Frederiksværn'' (1783) and '' Hvide Ørn'' (1784).


Kongens Plads, 17981832

In 1798, Bodenhoffs Plads was sold to the Royal Danish Navy. The shipyard at Bodenhodds plads was subsequently used for the construction ships of the Royal Danish Navy. Ships constructed for the navy included '' Brevdrageren'' (1791), '' Allart'' (1807), ''Hvalrossen'' (1808) and ''
Lolland Lolland (; formerly spelled ''Laaland'', literally "low land") is the List of islands of Denmark#List of 100 largest Danish islands, fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of . Located in the Kattegat, Belts and Sund area, it is part of Re ...
'' (1810). The site was part of a large property listed in the new
cadastre A cadastre or cadaster ( ) is a comprehensive recording of the real estate or real property's metes-and-bounds of a country.Jo Henssen, ''Basic Principles of the Main Cadastral Systems in the World,'/ref> Often it is represented graphically in ...
of 1806 as No. 175 on Christianshavn Quarter. It reached all the way from
Søkvæsthuset Søkvæsthuset is a former Naval hospice located on Christianshavn Canal in the Christianshavn district of Copenhagen, Denmark. The listed building housed the Royal Danish Naval Museum indtil 2016. The collection has been moved to and is exhibit ...
in the south to Bodenhoffs Plads in the north. It was also referred to as Kongens Plads.


Hambros Plads

In 1832, No. 164 was divided into No. 175 A and No. 175 B. Bodenhoffs Plads was as No. 175 B sold to
Joseph Hambro Joseph Hambro (4 November 1780 – 3 October 1848) was a Danish merchant, banker and political advisor. Early life Joseph Hambro was born in 1780 in Copenhagen, Denmark.Andrew St George, 'Hambro, Baron Carl Joachim (1807–1877)', Oxford Dictiona ...
and was from then on known as Hambros Plads. He established a rice mill and a pig farm at the site. The
rice huller A rice huller or rice husker is an agricultural machinery, agricultural machine used to automate the process of removing the chaff (the outer husks) of grains of rice. Throughout history, there have been numerous techniques to hull rice. Trad ...
was from 1930 powered by Denmark's first steam engine. The chaft from the rice huller was used as feed for the pigs. He then expanded the complex with Denmark's first canned food factory which made it possible to sell the meat to the many ships in the area. He also established a bakery which sold bread to the ships. Hambro's partner,
Andreas Nicolai Hansen Andreas Nicolai Hansen (14 September 1798 – 12 December 1873) was a Denmark, Danish businessman and landowner. His Hansen Mansion, former town mansion in Copenhagen was listed on the Listed buildings in Copenhagen Municipality, Danish registry o ...
, played a leading role in the operations of the site. In 1836, he established his own firm under the name A. B. Hansen & Co.. Joseph Hambro's son, Carl Joachim Hambro, moved to London where he founded
Hambros Bank Hambros Bank was a British bank based in London. The Hambros bank was a specialist in Anglo-Scandinavian business with expertise in trade finance and investment banking, and was the sole banker to the Scandinavian kingdoms for many years. The bank ...
. In circa 1840, Joseph Hambro sold his share of Hambros Plads to Hansen. In the 1750s, Hansen took his two eldest sons, Alfred and Harald Hansen, as partners in the firm.


Resent history

The name was later changed back to Bodenhodds Plads. Most of the northern part of the area was cleared by Dansk Totalenterprise in the early 1970s.


Buildings

No. 8 and 10 date from 1901 and were designed by Erik Schiødte and
Rogert Møller Rogert Møller (6 December 1844 – 26 August 1918) was a Danish architect and credit union manager. He was as an architect mainly active in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, designing many residential buildings during the population boom of ...
. No. 12 is from 1904 and was designed by N.P. Larsen & G.Larsen. The northern part of the area was cleared by Dansk Totalenterprise in the early 1970s, except for a large warehouse from Islandske Handel. The Islands Plads development (Bodenhoffs Plads 1-17/Prinsessegade 81–95) was built in 1975–78 for Lejerbo to design by BodThorvald Dreyer. The old warehouse (Plads 1–5) contains 40 apartments.


References


External links


Bodenhodds Plads
at indenforvoldene.dk

at christianshavn.net
Source
{{coord, 55.6763, N, 12.5992, E, source:wikidata, display=title Buildings and structures associated with the Grut Hansen family Streets in Christianshavn