Images of Copenhagen in the late 19th century

Copenhagen was a bustling city already in the last decades of the 19t century (although the number of bikers was considerably smaller than now!):

A photo of central Copenhagen in the early 1890s

Copenhagen has always been a major port city (drawing from the 1850s)

A view of the then new Copenhagen built around one of the artificial lakes which  previousley were  part of the city´s fortifications

The Børsen building in the background served as stock exchange from 1620 to 1974

The Rosenborg castle in central Copenhagen was built in 1605 as a Royal summer  residence

The Royal Theatre, built in the 1770s

The Svanemølle mill was in the 1890s a wellknown landmark in Copenhagen

Another view of maritime Copenhagen