Copenhagen

T H E CAPITAL OF DENMARK.

Park" — are all that rem ains of the moats and their su r­ roundings. C openhagen is not really a very old city. There have been too many destructive fires for it to retain any medieval stamp. The "H elligaandshus" (the cloister ad jo in ing the Church of

the Holy Spirit), which has been recently re ­ stored, and some ru i­ ned vaults, are the only very old remains. Two distinct bu ild ing p e ­ riods have given C o ­ penhagen its architec­ tural character. The first was d u rin g the reign of the royal bu il­ der, Christian IV, in the first half of the 17th century. The second was d u rin g the last half of the 18th century, an interm ediate stage b e­ tween the Rococo and the Empire style. The nobility and the great m erchants were then the ru ling powers, and

TH E FREDERICK’S CHURCH

in H arsdorff Copenhagen possessed an architect whose genius and whose fine appreciation of antique art were perhaps u n e ­ qualled in Europe. To get an adequate impression of Christian IV’s architecture —an independent treatm ent of the G erm an and Dutch Renaissance style — one should first exam ine the g race­ ful R osenborg Chateau with its slender towers, so picturesquely placed am idst delightful gardens; and then go on to H ø jb ro ­ plads, where the peasant-wom en from Amack, in their heredi- ( 3 ) - 33 -