Tagensvej
Tagensvej with Metropolitan UC's main campus
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Tagensvej is a major street in the northwestern part of inner Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Blegdamsvej on the border between Nørrebro and Østerbro in the southeast to Frederiksborgvej and Bispebjerg Cemetery in the northwest.
The road takes its name after Tagenshus, a house located just north of the junction with Jagtvej from 1631. Built as residence for the attendant of Borgmestervangen and Tådmandsvangen, two pastures available to the mayors of Copenhagen, it received its name after a Tage Nielsen who died in 1704. A so-called bird's pole (Danish: Fuglestang) had already been installed at the site in 1616. It was used for the king's falcons and later also for ceremonial shootings and as the location of illegal duels up through the 18th century.
Tagensvej was originally only a track that linked Jagtvej with the Lersøen lake to the northwest. The area between Blegdamsvej and Jagtvej was still a military area when S. C. Hauberg established a machine factory on Tagensvej in 1885. Hauberg paid for a new embankment across Sortedam Lake and a horse-drawn tram line began operating between the city centre and his plant in 1887 but a road connection was not constructed until the army finally released the area in 1899. Tagensvej was extended to its current length in 1903 as part of the plans for the new Bispebjerg district.
The first part of the street is dominated by Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen's North Campus and the Metropolitan University College's main campus (No. 16). Buildings directly on the street include the Panum Building and the Faculty Library of Natural and Health Sciences (KUB Nord). Metropolitan UC's building at No. 18-20 is home to Copenhagen Military Hospital which was built in 1918-1928 to design by Gunnar Laage as a replacement for the Garrison Hospital in Rigensgade. Just off Tagensvej, on the new street Ole Maaløes Vej, is BRIC – Biotech Research and Innovation Centre
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