Denmark’s historic old stock exchange building in the centre of Copenhagen has been engulfed by fire.
The 17th Century Børsen is one of the city’s oldest buildings and onlookers gasped as its iconic spire collapsed in the flames.
Everyone inside the building was able to leave and people rushed to rescue some of its historic paintings.
Culture minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said 400 years of Danish cultural heritage had gone up in flames.
The building, dating back to 1625, is a stone’s throw from Denmark’s parliament, the Folketing, housed in the old royal palace of Christiansborg castle. Danish media said the nearby square was being evacuated.
Such a terrible shame when historic buildings are destroyed this way. I’ve been trying to figure out what was lost inside since it’s being called a tourist destination, but I’m not seeing much information. Was a lot of artwork lost? Or important archives? Not that it would be okay without those, but those would make it worse.
There was a bunch of art inside, people even ran in to save some: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/folk-loeber-ind-i-braendende-boersen-redde-bevaringsvaerdig-kunst
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Thanks.
No problem
In addition to the art there’s also a library with historical documents and books, last I saw it was unknown if those were saved or not.
It’s art both in paintings and the buildings architecture. The spire was one of the most well known in Copenhagen.
It’s also the loss of the primary trading floor from when it was an active exchange (At least from what I was able to gather.).