Magstræde

Snaregade and Magstræde are two of the oldest streets in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark, linking Gammel Strand at their eastern end with Rådhusstræde to the west.

Snaregade extends from the small square at the Gammel Strand metro station to Knabrostræde where it turns into Magstræde.

Magstræde was created in the 1520s when the coastline was moved to present day Nybrogade.

It takes its name after Erling Jonssøn Snare, a former member of the city council who had owned a property on the street from 1501.

[2] The building on the corner of Gammel Strand and Snaregade is Assistenshuset, a former royal pawn shop now housing the Ministry of Culture.

[4] The Schäffer House (No 6), also called Hofsnedkerens Gård ("The Court Carpenter's House"), was built by Philip de Lange in 1733–34 for Court Carpenter Diderich Schäffer who had been called to Denmark to work on Christiansborg Palace.

Schäffer's rich interior Rococo decorations from his house are now on display in the National Museum.