{{Short description|Street in central Copenhagen, Denmark}} {{Infobox street | name = Amaliegade | native_name = | image = Amaliegade - No. 17.jpg | image_size = 320px | caption = The southern part of the street] | former_names = | postal_code = 1256 | length_m = 780 | width = | location = [[Indre by]], [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]] | coordinates = {{coord|55|40|42.96|N|12|34|38.64|E}} }}

'''Amaliegade''' ({{IPA|da|æˈmɛˀljəˌkɛːðə}}) is a street in central [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]], which makes up the longer of the two axes on which the [[Rococo architecture|Rococo]] district [[Frederiksstaden]] is centred. Amaliegade extends from [[Sankt Annæ Plads]] to [[Esplanaden, Copenhagen|Esplanaden]], passing through the central plaza of [[Amalienborg Palace]] on the way where it intersects [[Frederiksgade]], the other, shorter but more prominent, axis of the district.

The street is dominated by a number of elegant mansions, most of which are from the second half of the 18th century. At Amalienborg Palace, Amaliegade is spanned by a colonnade. Designed by royal architect [[Caspar Frederik Harsdorff]], it was built in 1794–95 to connect Moltke's Palace, the residence of the king, to Schack's Palace where the Crown prince resided.

==Notable buildings== ===No. 9: Collin's House=== Collin's Gouse (Danish. Den Collinske Gård) was built in 1751&ndash;1752 for bootmaker Peder Svendsen. The House breaks with schematic guidelines stipulated by Eigtved. It is receded from the street. [[Jonas Collin]], a prominent citizen of his day, lived in the house from 1839&ndash;1861 and during those years [[Hans Christian Andersen]] was a frequent visitor to the house.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/kko/c/kko_c-22.html|title="Collinske Gård, Den", Amaliegade 9|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2010-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719125916/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/kko/c/kko_c-22.html|archive-date=2011-07-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===No. 15&ndash;17=== Built 1754–56. They were designed by Nicolai Eigtved as two symmetrical houses of which one has been given an extra floor.

===No. 18: The Yellow Mansion=== {{Main|Yellow Palace, Copenhagen}} [[Image:Det Gule Palae Copenhagen.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The Yellow Palace]] The Yellow Palace, or Bergum's Palace, was built 1759&ndash;1764 by the architect [[Nicolas-Henri Jardin]] for the timber merchant and slave trader H. F. Bargum. It is considered the first example of [[Neoclassical architecture]] in Copenhagen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ses.dk/da/Kontorlokaler/HistoriskeKontorejendomme/DetGulePalaeAmaliegade18.aspx |title=Amaliegade 18, Det Gule Palæ |publisher=Slots og Ejendomsstyrlsen |access-date=2010-01-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514175502/http://www.ses.dk/da/Kontorlokaler/HistoriskeKontorejendomme/DetGulePalaeAmaliegade18.aspx |archive-date=2011-05-14 }}</ref> Today it houses the [[Danish Lord Chamberlain’s Office|Lord Chamberlain’s Office]].

King [[Frederick VI of Denmark|Frederick VI]] purchased the palace in 1810 to use it as a guest residence for visiting relatives of the royal family. In 1837 King [[Frederick VII of Denmark|Frederik VII]] handed the property over to his nephew [[Christian IX of Denmark|Prince Christian of Glücksborg]], who was later to become [[Christian IX of Denmark|Christian IX]] as the first [[House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg|Glücksburg]] king of Denmark, who took up residence in the building and lived there until moving into Amalienborg Palace in 1865. [[Prince Valdemar of Denmark|Prince Valdemar]] lived in the Yellow Palace until his death in 1939 as its last royal resident.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.copenhagenet.dk/CPH-Map/CPH-Yellow.asp |title=The Yellow Palace - And the Glückborg Dynasty |publisher=Copenhagen Portal |access-date=2010-01-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627135550/http://www.copenhagenet.dk/CPH-Map/CPH-Yellow.asp |archive-date=2009-06-27 }}</ref>

===Np. 21=== No. 21 is the [[Italian ambassador's residence in Copenhagen]].

===No. 23 and 23b=== Amaliegade and 23B are two houses but the latter is entered through the gateway of the former. Both 23, 23b and the adjoining house at No. 25 are today used by the [[Danish Social Appeals Board]]

No. 23 was designed by Nicolai Eigtved and built 1752&ndash;53 in Rococo style for mayor Johan Johansen. The house at No. 23b was built as an infill on the empty lot between Eigtved's Rococo house at No. 23 and de Thurah's Baroque house at No. 25 between 1785 and 1787. It was designed by Joseph Guione in Neoclassical style.<ref name="SLE 23-25">{{cite web|url=http://www.ses.dk/da/kontorlokaler/historiskekontorejendomme/amaliegade2325.aspx?highlight=amaliegade |title=Amaliegade 23-25 |publisher=Slots- og Ejendomsstyrelsen |access-date=2010-01-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609124102/http://www.ses.dk/da/kontorlokaler/historiskekontorejendomme/amaliegade2325.aspx?highlight=amaliegade |archive-date=2011-06-09 }}</ref>

===No. 25: Lauritz de Thurah's House=== [[Image:Thurahs house 01 2006.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Lauritz de Thurah's house at No. 25]] Built 1755&ndash;1757, [[Lauritz de Thurah]] built this house for his own use after returning to Copenhagen to direct the redevelopment of the Frederiksstaden district. During the same years de Thurah built Gammel Holtegård north of Copenhagen as a country house with a fine Baroque garden and he may have over-spent on his building projects. Thus he never moved into No. 25 Amaliegade, instead, it was rented out upon completion.<ref name="SLE 23-25"/>

===No. 26&ndash;30=== Built 1896 to the design of architect Ole Boye. Notable for its painted [[frieze|animal frieze]] depicting [[Dragonfly|dragonflies]], fish and frogs. In its centre stand two tigers head-to-head next to rows of penguins.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/kko/a/kko_a-27.html|title=Amaliegade 26-30|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2010-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719125921/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/kko/a/kko_a-27.html|archive-date=2011-07-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===No. 33=== No. 33 is the [[Danish Shipowners' Association]].

===No. 49=== Built by carpenter and builder [[Andreas Hallander]] in 1788. It has seven bays separated by [[Ionic order|Ionic]] [[pilaster]]s and another typical Neoclassical decoration is a "running dog". The relief in the triangular [[pediment]] is an early work by [[Bertel Thorvaldsen]] depicting a female figure with a monocular next to a [[putto]] decorated with a [[garland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/kko/a/kko_a-28.html|title=Amaliegade 49|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2010-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719125932/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/kko/a/kko_a-28.html|archive-date=2011-07-19|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Cultural references== Egon ([[Ove Sprogøe]]) chairs a board meeting at Amaliegade 39 at 1:38:36 in the 1975 ''[[Olsen-banden]]'' film ''[[The Olsen Gang on the Track]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olsenbande-homepage.de/index3.html|title=Film 7 Olsen banden på sporet / Die Olsenbande stellt die Weichen|language=de|website=olsenbande-homepage.de|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref>

==See also== * [[Casino Theatre (Copenhagen)]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons}} * [http://www.eremit.dk/ebog/bkh/3/bkh3_3.html Source] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724043206/http://www.eremit.dk/ebog/bkh/3/bkh3_3.html |date=2009-07-24 }} * [https://www.b.dk/kultur/amalienborgs-hemmelige-gange Source] * [http://amaliegade13b.dk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Et-hus-i-Amaliegade-af-Allan-Tønnesen.pdf Amaliegade 13] * [https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk/census1834/herred54 1834 census] * [https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk/census1840/sogn2887/placenamelist 1840 census] * [https://www.danishfamilysearch.dk/census1845/sogn2887/placenamelist 1845 census]

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