Usserød Textile Factory

It was from 1802 home to the Royal Military Textile Factory (Danish: Den Kongelige Militære Klædefabrik) which remained in use until 1981.

[1] From 1815, it completely replaced the Royal Military Textile Manufactury on Rigensgade in Copenhagen which was converted into a new garrison hospital.

[2] The Danish military began to move its textile production to Ryvangen Barracks in the 1970s and the factory in Usserød closed in 1981.

The architect Jørgen Raaschou-Nielsen was subsequently responsible for a renovation which received the Europa Nostra Award in 1987,[3] The three-winged Late Neoclassical main building surrounds a central courtyard in a style remniscient of a Baroque-style manor house although it lacks its symmetry.

It stands in blank, red brick walls with arched windows and a roof with Polonceau trues.

Usserød Klædefabrik
Children at work in the Royal Military Textile Factory in Usserød, seen on Johan Gottlieb Cramber's ceremonial target from the Royal Copenhagen Shooting Society .