Kvæsthusgade is a short street in the Nyhavn Quarter of central Copenhagen, Denmark.

It runs from the mouth of the Nyhavn canal in the south to Ofelia Plads in the north.

The street takes its name after the Kvæsthus, a military hospital, which relocated to the site in 1680.

[1] The name Kvæsthus was introduced with the inauguration of the new building for the institution at the corner of present-day Kvæsthusgade and Sankt Annæ Plads in 1685.

The institution was later split into a Søkvæsthus for the Navy which remained in the old building and a Landkvæsthus for the Army, which took over Københavns Ladegård, a former farm under Copenhagen Castle.

The building in Kvæsthusgade was then for a while used as a warehouse for textiles that arrived to Copenhagen by ship.