Christianshavn
Christianshavn, Copenhagen.
The district was founded as a fortified city of Christian 4. in 1618.
At the then shallow and swamped are...
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Christianshavn, Copenhagen.
The district was founded as a fortified city of Christian 4. in 1618.
At the then shallow and swamped area on the Amager side opposite Slotsholmen, Christian 4. In 1617, the construction of a new city began. It was initially intended as the home of Dutch immigrants, then as a garrison or boatman's town, but ended up becoming a regular merchant and craftsman city. It was built in the years after 1618 by the Dutch engineer and architect Johan Semp and associated with Copenhagen with Knippelsbro. Large grounds were demolished, and peat, canal and streets were landed following a right-angled, symmetrical city plan and were surrounded by graves and crowds with bastions; according to Dutch model. However, many decades went on before the city, which had its own privileges and own city council, in 1639-74, was truly expanded.
After 1815, the district's poverty line became increasingly clear, and even though Burmeister & Wain's shipyard and modern mass production dates back to the 1800s, the city remained one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital (the "fourth Brokvarter") with a distinct slum building.
The Copenhagen City's extensive rehabilitation programs from the 1920s threatened to completely eradicate the old Christianshavn, but conservation plans have, from the 1970s, secured the valuable building stock of the armed district to further demolition. During the 1990s, Christianshavn continued its transformation from industrial area and working quarters to attractive residential neighborhoods
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The district was founded as a fortified city of Christian 4. in 1618.
At the then shallow and swamped area on the Amager side opposite Slotsholmen, Christian 4. In 1617, the construction of a new city began. It was initially intended as the home of Dutch immigrants, then as a garrison or boatman's town, but ended up becoming a regular merchant and craftsman city. It was built in the years after 1618 by the Dutch engineer and architect Johan Semp and associated with Copenhagen with Knippelsbro. Large grounds were demolished, and peat, canal and streets were landed following a right-angled, symmetrical city plan and were surrounded by graves and crowds with bastions; according to Dutch model. However, many decades went on before the city, which had its own privileges and own city council, in 1639-74, was truly expanded.
After 1815, the district's poverty line became increasingly clear, and even though Burmeister & Wain's shipyard and modern mass production dates back to the 1800s, the city remained one of the poorest neighborhoods in the capital (the "fourth Brokvarter") with a distinct slum building.
The Copenhagen City's extensive rehabilitation programs from the 1920s threatened to completely eradicate the old Christianshavn, but conservation plans have, from the 1970s, secured the valuable building stock of the armed district to further demolition. During the 1990s, Christianshavn continued its transformation from industrial area and working quarters to attractive residential neighborhoods
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Canon EOS 5DS R
Aperture f/16 ISO 50 Shutter 25/1 Focal Length 47/1 
Christianshavn, Hovedstaden, DK
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