Blegdamsvej

Blegdamsvej is a street in Copenhagen, Denmark, connecting Sankt Hans Torv in Nørrebro to Trianglen in Østerbro.

Blegdamsvej is first mentioned in 1694 and takes its name after the 24 ponds on the west side of Sortedam and Peblinge Lake, which was used for textile bleaching.

They were established in about 1772 and had numbers from south to north, beginning at present day Sankt Hans Torv.

From the middle of the 19th century, the narrow lots came into other use, first for construction of smaller industrial enterprises and later apartment buildings, although the last bleacher did not disappear until 1867.

132 (Trianglen) is a former tram remise built by De kjøbenhavnske Sporvejes in 1900-02 to design by Vilhelm Friederichsen.

At Rigshospitalet, on the corner of Blegdamsvej with Fredensgade, is Rudolph Tegner's large group sculpture Towards the Light.

It was installed in 1909 as a memorial to the physician and scientist Niels Ryberg Finsen who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903.

[7] In the small garden in front of the Niels Bohr Institute stands a 7-8 metre tall granite sculpture by the Swedish sculptor Claes Hake.

Triangelen Station at the eastern end of the street will open when the City Circle Line is inaugurated in September 2019.

Movia bus 3A runs through the full length of the street on its way between Nordhavn station in the northeast and Valbyparken in the southwest.

[8] One of the stations of the under construction City Circle Line will be located on the corner of Nørre Allé and Jagtvej at Vibenhus Eunddel.

The narrow bleaching ponds along Sortedam Lake seen on a map detail from 1784
L. C. Warburg's stockings factory
The Mærsk Tower
No.60: Nielsen & Winther 's former building
No. 74: Håndværkerstiftelsen
No. 104: The Asp-Holmblad Building