The burning building is “one of Denmark’s most iconic”, says the Danish professor

in Copenhagen the burning stock exchange building is one of the most historically significant buildings in the city.

Known as Børsen in Denmark, the building served as the Copenhagen Stock Exchange until 1974 and today is the headquarters of the Danish Chamber of Commerce.

of Denmark pages of the Ministry of Culture The listed building is in the style of Dutch Renaissance architecture. It is one of the few surviving trade buildings from the Renaissance period.

King of Denmark Christian IV built the Exchange House between 1619 and 1640. The architects of the main part of the building were Lorenz and Hans van Steenwinckel junior.

The building the most famous feature is the so-called dragon tower, the top of which is formed by the intertwined tails of four dragon sculptures.

The top is 56 meters high and was completed between 1624 and 1625. The tower is based on a sculptor Ludvig Heidtriderin to the drawing. The tower has collapsed in a fire.

In 1647, the king, in debt, had to sell the building to a merchant Jakob Madsenille but did not get the money before his death in 1648. Later the building ended up back in the royal family, and today it is owned by the Danish Chamber of Commerce.

Aarhusin professor at the school of architecture (Architektskolen Aarhus). Mogens A. Morgen commented to the Dane The politics- magazine, that the burning of the building is “a huge loss in cultural history”.

“It is one of Denmark’s most iconic buildings. It has been the only cultural building in Copenhagen that has not burned down,” says Morgen.

“There have been big fires in Copenhagen. Copenhagen’s inner city has burned, Christiansborg Palace has burned, the British have bombed, but the stock exchange has survived every single time.”

Morgen was there to see for himself when the dragon tower collapsed as a result of the fire.