Børsen

Børsen the former stock market is in the city center of Copenhagen. Until 1974, here the business of the Fund Copenhagen Stock Exchange ( Københavns Fondsbørs ) ​​were made. Today it is used as an office building.

Commissioned by King Christian IV, the building was built in 1619-1640 in the style of the Dutch Renaissance. As architects, Laurens and Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger worked. The building is richly decorated on its gables and bay windows and extends over a length of 127 meters. The 56 meter high roof riders of Ludwig Heidritter illustrates four intertwined dragon tails and is considered a landmark of Copenhagen.

Built on the eastern tip of the island slot Holmen Holmen it's the channel opposite the Holmen Kirke and the Danish National Bank.

In 1857 the house was part of the sale to a consortium of wholesalers as the first building in Denmark under monument protection.

On February 11, 1918, the building was stormed and sacked by the unemployed.