Nyboder

Nyboder
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General information
Town or cityCopenhagen
CountryDenmark
Construction started1631 (1st stage)
Completed1795 (2nd stage)
ClientChristian IV
Design and construction
Architect(s)Hans van Steenwinckel the Younger
Philip de Lange

Nyboder (English: New [small] Houses) is a historic row house district of former Naval barracks in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was planned and first built by Christian IV to accommodate a need for housing for the personnel of the rapidly growing Royal Danish Navy and their families during that time. While the area is still commonly associated with the name of its founder as one of his numerous building projects around Copenhagen, the Nyboder seen today was in fact, except for a single row of houses in Sankt Pauls Gade, built from 1757.

Nyboder is today very much associated with their yellow colour and "Nyboder yellow" is in Danish often used as a generic term to refer to their exact hue of yellow.[1] However, the original colour of the development was red and white.

  1. ^ "Tingbjerg Kirke". Tingbjerg Kirke. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-01-06.