this was one of the coolest cities i've visited! thanks for coming along with me on my layover in copenhagen this week :D i still cannot get over how amazing the art is here !!
A little quick history about Copenhagen. Copenhagen actually only have a few number of buildings left that are older than 1728. The reason is that Copenhagen suffered some pretty devastating fires in 1728, 1795 and 1807 (the last one thanks to the British who thought it was a brilliant idea to shower Copenhagen with rockets etc.). Copenhagen was up to the late 1850s a fortified city that was surrounded by bastions and a moat that surrounded the entire city. There are actually a few remnants of the moat from back then. The remnants may be found in Tivoli, H.C. Ørsted Park, Botanic Garden and Østre Anlæg Park. The moat remnants are the lakes in these locations. It may also come as a surprise to some people that the current Christiansborg Palace was actually first completed in 1928 after the previous palace burned down in 1884. The old stock exchange will eventually be rebuilt and probably in a manner where it will look exactly as before. Only an expert in old buildings will probably be able to tell the difference. The problem today to go about rebuilding these very old buildings is basically that the work skills needed to do it correctly are very rare today so finding the right people to do that job may turn out to be the biggest challenge.
this is such great history! thank you!! and totally explains why there are not many super old buildings. Next time I go ill plan a quest to see the oldest buildings left. and hopefully by then the stock exchange will start to be building again, which would be really cool to see!!
@@vagabond_chronicles The oldest structure left in Copenhagen today is probably the oldest part of Church of the Holy Spirit in Copenhagen. This was before the reformation a Catholic monastery and the oldest part of the structure today is from the beginning of the 14th hundreds. There has however been an older Catholic hospital building on the site prior to the monastery which was first mentioned around 1295.
this was one of the coolest cities i've visited! thanks for coming along with me on my layover in copenhagen this week :D i still cannot get over how amazing the art is here !!
A little quick history about Copenhagen.
Copenhagen actually only have a few number of buildings left that are older than 1728. The reason is that Copenhagen suffered some pretty devastating fires in 1728, 1795 and 1807 (the last one thanks to the British who thought it was a brilliant idea to shower Copenhagen with rockets etc.).
Copenhagen was up to the late 1850s a fortified city that was surrounded by bastions and a moat that surrounded the entire city.
There are actually a few remnants of the moat from back then. The remnants may be found in Tivoli, H.C. Ørsted Park, Botanic Garden and Østre Anlæg Park. The moat remnants are the lakes in these locations.
It may also come as a surprise to some people that the current Christiansborg Palace was actually first completed in 1928 after the previous palace burned down in 1884.
The old stock exchange will eventually be rebuilt and probably in a manner where it will look exactly as before. Only an expert in old buildings will probably be able to tell the difference.
The problem today to go about rebuilding these very old buildings is basically that the work skills needed to do it correctly are very rare today so finding the right people to do that job may turn out to be the biggest challenge.
this is such great history! thank you!! and totally explains why there are not many super old buildings. Next time I go ill plan a quest to see the oldest buildings left. and hopefully by then the stock exchange will start to be building again, which would be really cool to see!!
@@vagabond_chronicles
The oldest structure left in Copenhagen today is probably the oldest part of Church of the Holy Spirit in Copenhagen. This was before the reformation a Catholic monastery and the oldest part of the structure today is from the beginning of the 14th hundreds. There has however been an older Catholic hospital building on the site prior to the monastery which was first mentioned around 1295.