Ofelia Plads

Ofelia Plads is a public space situated on the Kvæsthus Pier next to the Royal Danish Playhouse on the harbourfront in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is owned by the Ministry of Culture and Jeudan and is used as an open-air venue by the Royal Danish Theatre. It was completed in 2016 to design by Lundgaard & Tranberg and is located on top of an underground parking facility with room for 500 cars.

The pier was named after Kvæsthuset, a naval hospital located at the site from 1686. It later moved to Christianshavn and the building was then used first as poorhouse and later storage space. The pier was built as a hub for the new steam ferries that had begun to operate between Copenhagen and most of the larger seapors in the provinces.

Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab was established in 1866 and was from 1872 based in the former naval hospital. Most of its ferries to many Danish seaports departed from the pier. The company had daily departues to Aarhus and Aalborg and departures one to three times a week to smaller towns such as Frederikshavn, Fredericia, Kolding, Horsens, Vejle, Randers, Aabenraa, Faaborg, Middelfart, Svendborg and Sønderborg. The pier was extended to its current length in 1877-1878.

Most of the domestic ferry routes gradually disappeared after World War II. They were replaced by the Oslo Ferries in 1974 and a few years later followed the Bornholm Ferries. The Oslo Ferries moved to the northern tip of Amerikakaj in the 2000s while the Bornholm Ferries moved to Køge.

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