Absalonsgade

The Museum of Copenhagen has a small display of historical street furniture next to its former building at the corner with Vesterbrogade.

It was built over with typical 5-storey apartment blocks from the 1870s One of the developers was Peter Christian Wienberg, one of the most active builders of the time.

He had started his career in the provinces, building everything from lighthouses to manor houses, but moved his business to Copenhagen in 1866.

His professional relationship with Ferdinand Meldahl had secured him several large contracts, including the construction of the Danish National Gallery, Charlottenborg Exhibition Building and the completion of Frederick's Church.

[1] Copenhagen Police Department's Station 5 moved to Svendsgade 3 at the corner of Absalonsgade in 1882.

Lendorf had together with distiller J. C. Olsen and Odense-based industrialist Ernst Traube, Odense purchased the site from the city.

28, with views of the Shooting Range Garden, is a Jugendstil-influenced building from 1903 designed by Aage Langeland-Mathiesen.

The apartment where the eponymous protagonist lives with her family in the 1968 DR TV series Sonja is located at Absalonsgade 30.