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5 unusual facts about Gammelholm


1728 map of Copenhagen

Gammelholm, the former site of the Royal Shipyard by then partly moved to Nyholm

1795 in Denmark

June 5 – Copenhagen Fire of 1795 breaks out around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm.

1859 in Denmark

April 15 – An act provides for the Royal Danish Navy as well as the Botanical Gardens to leave Gammelholm which is instead to undergo urban redevelopment.

Johann Christoph Petzold

His first work in Denmark, a relief for a pediment and a statue at the naval headquarters at Gammelholm in Copenhagen, from 1739–40, was lost in the Great Fire of 1795.

Mathias Hansen House

In 1912, Hafnia relocated to a new building on the corner of Holmens Kanal and Holbergsgade in Gammelholm.


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