Rantzausgade

Rantzausgade is a street in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Åboulevard in the southeast to Jagtvej in the northeast where its name changes to Borups Allé.

Rantzausgade was originally called Nordvestvej ("Northwest Road") and only reached as far as Brohusgade where it ended in a wooden fence. Being located within the so-called Demarcation Line which followed Jagtvej, that is on the esplanade (in the original military sense of the word) outside Copenhagen's fortifications, only minor buildings could be built in the area. On the other side of the fence at the far end of the road and on the banks of the Ladegård Canal to the south market gardens, they were particularly known for their production of rhubarb. When the area was built over from the 1870s on, developing into a dense working-class neighbourhood, one of the poorest in Copenhagen, it became known as Rabarberkvarteret ("The Rhubarb Neighbourhood"). The term rabarberkvarter has in Danish since developed into a derogatory, generic term for a poor, late 19th or early 20th-century working-class neighbourhood with low housing standards. In 1879, the company Glud & Marstrandm, a manufacturer of metal goods, opened a factory at No. 22–24.

Another extension of Nordvestvej, beyond Jagtvej, began in 1902 but this section was renamed Borups Allé following the death of the politician Ludvig Christian Borup in 1903. The rest of the street was renamed Rantzausgade in 1906 for the Danish-German noble family Rantzau originating in the Duchy of Holstein.

The Nordbanen railway line crossed the street from 1894 on its way from Copenhagen's second central station at Axeltorv to Helsingør. The railway crossing disappeared in 1930 when the Boulevard Line opened. Tram line No. 13 operated through the street from 1915 until 1965 on its way from City Hal Square to Lyngbygade (Now Hillerødgade).

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