Christianshavns Torv

In 1868, the vegetable market at Amagertorv, where the Amager Women had sold their produce for centuries, was moved to Christianshavns Torv.

[3] It only existed for around two decades and was in 1889 replaced by a new vegetable market which opened at Vendersgade, later part of Israels Plads.

The Greenland Monument was created by Svend Rathsack in bluish granite from Bornholm and installed in the square in 1938.

It consists of a Greenlandic hunter with his kayak, placed high on a plinth above two groups of working women.

[6] One of Copenhagen's old telephone kiosks of the original model which was designed by Fritz Koch and first installed in 1896.

The square is dominated by the Modernist building Lagkagehuset ("The Layer Cake House"), which was built on the site of the former penitentiary between 1929 and 1932 to a design by Edvard Thomsen.

2–4), at the opposite corner, also facing the canal, is also in the Modernist style and was built between 1940 and 1941 to designs by Svend G.

The east side of the square with the old telephone kiosk
Christianshavns Torv seen in the 18th century with de Lange's prison building seen on the left
Wolffang Ruhmann Weibel's House on Christianshavns Torv in 1749
The south-west side of the square. The building with the police station is seen to the right while the building in the middle was the tallest residential building in Christianshavn at the time
The square seen from the same angle in the late 19th century with Nebelong's prison building
Christianshavns Torv in c. 1900 with the Women's Prison to the right
The Greenland Monument