{{Short description|Street in Copenhagen, Denmark}} [[Image:Ved Stranden aerialtower.jpg|thumb|300px|Ved Stranden viewed from [[Christiansborg]]'s tower]] '''Ved Stranden''' ([[literal translation|lit.]] "At the Beach") is a canal side public space and street which runs along a short section of the [[Zealand]] side of [[Slotsholmen Canal]] in central [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]. It begins at [[Holmens Kanal]], opposite the [[Church of Holmen]], and runs west along the canal for one and a half blocks before widening into a small, triangular space adjacent to [[Højbro|Højbro Bridge]] and [[Højbro Plads]]. The name of the street refers to [[Gammel Strand]], 'Old Beach', which it formed part of until 1961.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indenforvoldene.dk/ved%20stranden.html|title=Ved Stranden|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=2012-09-15}}</ref>
==Buildings== [[Image:Ved Stranden.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Ved Stranden at [[Gustmeyer House]] ]] Most of the buildings in the street date from the rebuilding of the city following the [[Copenhagen Fire of 1795]] and are listed. No. 10 and 12 were built in 1796–1797 to the design of unknown architects.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indenforvoldene.dk/ved%20stranden%2010.html|title=Ved Stranden 10|language=da|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=2012-09-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://indenforvoldene.dk/ved%20stranden%2012.html|title=Ved Stranden 12|language=da|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=2012-09-15}}</ref> The [[Gustmeyer House]] at No. 14 was designed by [[Johan Martin Quist]] and completed in 1797. It is one of Copenhagen's first bourgeois residences with free-standing columns.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indenforvoldene.dk/ved%20stranden%2014%20-%20admiralgade%2024.html|title=Ved Stranden 14/Admiralgade 24|language=da|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=2012-09-15|archive-date=2013-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005004712/http://indenforvoldene.dk/ved%20stranden%2014%20-%20admiralgade%2024.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The former [[Hotel Royal, Copenhagen|Royal Hotel]] (No. 18), once one of the city's finest hotels, is from 1798 and was designed by [[Jørgen Henrich Rawert]] but was expanded with an extra floor in 1886 after it had been taken over by a newspaper publishing house. It is now home to [[Nordic Council]]'s operations in Copenhagen.
The [[Ploug House]] at No. 20 was designed by [[Andreas Hallander]] and built 1798-1799 for the merchant C. F. Friderici but takes its name after the writer and politician [[Carl Ploug]] who acquired it in 1862. Its facade is decorated with pilasters.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indenforvoldene.dk/ved%20stranden%2020%20-%20hoejbro%20plads%2021-21a-b.html|title=Ved Stranden 20/Højbro Plads 21-21a-b|language=da|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=2012-09-15}}</ref>
[[Image:Højbro Plads corner.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Ploug House]] viewed from the other side of the canal ]] The only building in the street which predates the Great Fire of 1795 is No. 16 which was built by [[Philip de Lange]] for General War Commissioner Stephen Hansen in 1748.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indenforvoldene.dk/ved%20stranden%2016.html|title=Ved Stranden 16|language=da|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=2012-09-15}}</ref> The only building of younger date is No. 2 at the corner of [[Holmens Kanal]], the former headquarters of ''Nordisk Genforsikring'', an insurance company, which replaced several older properties when it was built between 1932 and 1938. It was designed by N. P. P. Gundstrup and has 18 bays facing Ved Stranden, five bays facing Holemns Kanal and 18 bays facing [[Admiralgade]] on the other side of the block.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indenforvoldene.dk/ved%20stranden%202-8%20-%20boldhusgade%201%20-%20admiralgade%2028%20-%20holmens%20kanal%2042.html|title=Ved Stranden 2-8 / Boldhusgade 1 / Admiralgade 28/Holmens Kanal 42|language=da|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=2012-09-15}}</ref>
==Use== [[Image:Ved Stranden - flee market.jpg|thumb|200px|A flea market at Ved Stranden]] Ved Vejen is the site of a monthly flee market. The canal boats have a stop on the canal front.
==Cultural references== The ''[[Olsen-banden]]'' gang steals a suitcase at Ved Stranden 6 in ''[[The Olsen Gang's Big Score]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olsenbande-homepage.de/index3.html|title=Film 4 Olsen Bandens store kup / Die Olsenbande und ihr grosser Coup|language=de|website=olsenbande-homepage.de |access-date= 1 October 2017}}</ref> Ved Stranden is also used as a location in ''[[The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang]]'' at 0:52:19.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olsenbande-homepage.de/index3.html|title=Film 6 Olsen Bandens sidste bedrifter / Der (voraussichtlich) letzte Streich der Olsenbande|language=de|website=olsenbande-homepage.de|access-date=5 October 2017}}</ref>
==See also== * [[Frederiksholms Kanal]] * [[Albrecht Ludwig Schmidt]]
==References== {{Commons category|Ved Stranden (Copenhagen)}} {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons}} * [https://www.b.dk/kultur/det-gamle-koebenhavn-spoegelseshuset-ved-stranden Source] * [http://www.kb.dk/images/billed/2010/okt/billeder/subject5769/da?page=12 Images] * [https://www.flickr.com/photos/franganillo/29231609467/in/photolist-Lx6D5F-NaFv4Q-Lx6Dfv-NaFuRA-FB6eM-FB6ez-UPXgMe-2JdAec-pT1iFb-LWiD94-29GV8RQ-LwoYii-MqBSCf-LwoXnF-M18eAd-Mh1jaJ-LuEZU4-LuEEH8-LThqbm-LPeH4p-LwoXSt-M2RdQL-29GV9Zb-MjFoPT-LThg79-MiKmsY-pT9m8r-LuECUD-LuEBck-MoS7q9-MqFHzN-MtK8zg-KZjtwK-LuEYoZ-MrZ8R2-LwoY3D-MmuWCc-MiKkCG-Mh1ip5-LuEXKV-MoS6BL-MoS3x9-MjFDU2-M18any-Nw5Uz-9kUHLQ-as4G3g-9kREN2-as79YE-5cYKHW Ved Stranden] * [https://flickr.com/photos/33750036@N05/33766062436/in/photolist-TrMTYh-GWvoXX-GWqZaz-c8YV6b-c83duC-a83prM-9WYXvw-A7N18-GTrFAJ-c83qUs-ewHdGs-c83mtY-9WWoY4-7c9Xrj-c84dwu-XJyT4w-9WW99e-GWvyg6-c8YUkU-GNaNxs-xFXbwZ-29VJ51v-2beN6do-2adukGf-Myggok-HUPecd-2beN4ZS-G22ZZn-GWvw9F-9WZUiN-6xJcxc-8cZGA9-9WYWwh-akPW33-A9JMJ-6XyoFk-Gwj7SS-7c9Xwd-SVnMQY-PbmADG-9WX4o4-A7N4w-TrMV3S-SgwVhK-G22nAv-ewE2Rc-TrNnt7-PbmBfm-SVnJ8C-8cWosK Image] * [https://slaegtsbibliotek.dk/908030.pdf Københavns Brandforsikring]
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