The viaduct that carries it across the railway tracks at the central station is known as Tietgensbro (Tietgen's Bridge).

A series of staircases and lifts provides direct access from the viaduct to the station platforms.

The street was renamed Tietgensgade in 1904 to commemorate Carl Frederik Tietgen who had died a few years earlier.

The transfer of a narrow strip of Tivoli Gardens and the subsequent demolition of the Arena Theatre in 1906 made it possible to connect the street to Stormgade, creating a more straight route through the inner city.

Its predecessor, a concert hall from 1802 designed by Knud Arne Petersen in "Moorish style", remniscient of the Nimb complex, was destroyed by schalburgtage in World War II.

The garden strip along the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek features a number of monuments and other artworks that faces the street.

Utopia, a bronze statue of an obese man by Keld Moseholm Jørgensen, was installed in front of DGI-Byen in 2007.

A series of staircases and lifts provide direct access from Tietgensbro to the platforms of Copenhagen Central Station.