Halmtorvet

The oblong square eventually turns into Sønder Boulevard, a broad street with a park strip in its central reserve, which continues to Enghavevej at Enghave station.

Market days were Wednesday and Saturday and up to several hundred loads of hay and straw were traded and distributed to cattle and horse stables around the city.

Up through the 20th century, with improved infrastructure, livestock moved out of the city and horses lost their role in transportation, and the haymarket finally closed.

In order to obtain a coherent space in the area a large gas regulator in front of the Brown Meat District was removed.

To make the space more attractive to urban life, the new layout introduced one-way traffic which is taken along a single lane on the south side of the square.

The south side of the square, from the roundabout up to the beginning of Sønder Boulevard, borders on the Meat Packing District.

The section closest to Sønder Boulevard is known as the White Meat District and was built in the first half of the 1930s to the design of City Architect Poul Holsøe [da; no; sv].