page_title: Women's Prison, Christianshavn
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Women's Prison, Christianshavn / History
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Tugt- og Børnehuset på Christianshavns Torv på et stik fra 1700-tallet.
context_page_description: The Women's Prison at Christianshavn in Copenhagen, Denmark, was a correctional facility which existed under various names from the mid 17th century until 1921. From 1870 it served as a women's prison. Earlier names included Børnehuset and Tugt- og Rasphuset. Its last building, which dated from 1861, was torn down in 1928 to make way for an expansion of Torvegade.
context_section_description: The institution  Børnehuset, a royal orphanage, was established at the site in 1622. It was gradually converted into a prison. The old building was replaced by a new one designed in the Baroque style by Philip de Lange and constructed between 1739 and 1742.
  Lange's building was demolished in the early 1860s to make way for a new prison building completed in 1864 to designs by Niels Sigfred Nebelong. From 1870 it was known as Christianshavns Straffeanstalt (Christianshavn Penitentiary) and served as a prison for women.
  Christianshavn Penitentiary was demolished in 1928 in connection with a widening of Torvegade.
caption: Christianshavns Torv seen in the 18th century with de Lange's prison building seen on the left
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