Silkegade

The entrance to department store Illum's multi-storey parking facility is also located in the street.

Created in 1620,[1] the street takes its name after the Silk Company (Silkecompagniet) which was founded at the initiative of Christian IV in 1618.

Some of the townhouses and a building in Pilestræde were then converted into a domus misericordiæ or central poorhouse.

It handed food and money out to the poor once a week and also functioned as an employment agency.

It also contained a Hackle Room (heglestue) which was used for preparation of flax that was handed out to the poor.

[3] In the middle of the 19th century, Poul Christian Tafdrup, a master tailor, operated a clothing retailer at No.

The architect Hans Conrad Stilling was subsequently charged with adapting the building for its new use as bank headquarters.

The street seen from Købmagergade
Advertisement for C, Tafdrup & Co.'s tailor shop at No. 6
Bikuben's first headquarters from the 1860s