Jorcks Passage

Jorcks Passage is a passageway and associated building in central Copenhagen, Denmark.

The building was heightened and the new top floor which was rented out to the newly founded telephone company KTAS.

Literally thousands of telephone wires extended from a structure on the roof to customers in the vicinity.

[1] The retail premises at Vimmelskaftet 42 was from 1891 home to the book shop Henriques & Bonfils.

The passageway is flanked by two rows of columns topped by small statues of toddlers and the floor is paved with mosaics.

The covered section of the passageway
The roof-top structure
KTAS' telephone exchange which opened in the building in 1896
The telephone ladies
The building viewed from Strøget
Portrait of Reinholdt W. Jorck