KøbenhanskeMotiver_1587-1807

the loft of the T rin itatis C hurch in the 1650s (see cat. no. 7).

part of town is extremely reliable. In the top left-hand corner w e have the city arms as it looked since 166 1. In the bottom right-hand corner the arms of Christianshavn; from 1639—74 this part of town had its own municipal charter. In the top right-hand corner was origin ally G rif- fenfeldt's coat o f arms, but at his fall in 1676 it was erased from the plate. 16 CO PENHAGEN FROM THE SOUTHW EST BEFORE 16 77 A fter the w ar against the Swedes (1657-60 ) the city ex­ panded towards the southwest, and the foundation of a n ew district was laid between the present Frederiksholms C anal and Vester Voldgade. This resulted in the removal of Vesterport (the western gate) from Vestergade to the end o f w hat is n ow Frederiksberggade. 1668 the gate (5) w as finished. This neat view gives quite a good impression of the city as it was met b y most of the travellers ap­ proaching it on the Roskilde highw ay. The execution and situation o f the m any spires are, in spite of the smallness of the engraving, correct. The first town hall of Copenhagen was built somewhere near Gamm eltorv at about 1360. This reproduction of the town hall is not correct, since in all probability it was destroyed by the Hanseatics already back in 1368. Perhaps the structure in the engraving is supposed to be the house w hich stood there in the 1670s. The second town hall of Copenhagen was between 13 77 and 1400 housed in a row o f buildings at the corner of Studiestræde and Nørregade where n ow Bispegården stands. This picture probably also show s us how the different houses looked in 1677, years after they had stopped serving their original purpose. A bout 1475 the town hall was moved to a site south of G amm eltorv, where a new, large building was erected. However, the engraving shows the town hall as it looked 17 THE FIRST THREE TOW N HALLS OF CO PENHAGEN 16 77

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The view is taken from som ewhere near the Holmens bridge. W ith the exception o f tw o paintings in the Rosen­ borg Museum, of w h ich one in the form o f an engravin g is included in this catalogue (no. 12 ), this sm all draw ing is the oldest reproduction w e have o f the Castle. To the far left we see the C abin et o f Curiosities w ith its m any attic windows, then Løn gangen (a ga llery), D rabantsals­ fløjen (the guards' room s) w ith "K on gen s R unddel" (a round tower), the huge R o yal w in g, B låtårn (the blue tower), and beneath it the half-tim bered gatehouse. To the far right the gable o f the w in g housin g the banqueting hall can just be made out. T he draw in g provides an extremely im portant source for the appearance o f the Castle and especially the R o yal w in g at this time, but it must be noted that the num ber o f w in dow s, for instance, differs from that o f the tw o m entioned paintings. Reproduced p. 25. 1 5 PERSPECTIVE M A P OF CO PENH AG EN 16 74 The map was draw n and engraved b y the U n iversity engraver, Johan H uusm an, after the instructions o f Peder Resen. Not on ly is it a bird's-eye v iew , it also points to the future in that a great deal o f the structures in the picture must have been draw n after alread y existin g plans. Part of these were never realized, for example the vast areas northeast of C hristianshavn, the C astle at the Citadel, and the canal parallel to N yh avn . N or w as Gamm elholm oc­ cupied with residential houses as indicated in the engrav- mg. But on the site beyond G othersgade and N yh avn private houses were soon built. The eastern part of the fortification is copied after a plan w h ich w as actu ally car­ ried out. A s far as the other part o f the fortification is concerned, the map is correct, and the rendering o f the old

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