page_title: Hotel Royal, Copenhagen
section_title: Hotel Royal
hierarchical_section_title: Hotel Royal, Copenhagen / History / Hotel Royal
caption_attribution_description: English: Hotel Royal at Ved Stranden in Copenhagen, Denmark
context_page_description: Hotel Royal is a former hotel located at the corner of Ved Stranden and Fortunstræde in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The hotel existed from 1798 until 1876 and the building has later housed a newspaper publishing house and the Danish Society of Engineers. The listed, Neoclassical building is now home to Nordic Council's operations in Denmark. It fronts Slotsholmens Kanal and is located opposite Christiansborg Palace on Slotsholmen.
context_section_description: The building was completely destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. The owner Heinrich Wilhelm Løbel soon began the construction of a new and more elegant hotel building  and the hotel reopened under the name Hotel Royal in 1898. It is believed that the architect was Jørgen Henrich Rawert. It served a celebrated "Parisian" cuisine in the ground floor facing Fortunstræde.
  The writer Bernhard Severin Ingemann who lived at Sorø Academy stayed in Hotel Royal during his visits to Copenhagen. The writer Hans Christian Andersen for a while had his home in the hotel. The Swedish singer Jenny Lind stayed at the hotel in 1845. One  day prior to her departure, on 21 October, she held a dinner there for her Copenhagen friends which included Hans Christian Andersen.
  Other notable guests include the German philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher who stayed there during his visit to Copenhagen in 1833 and prime minister Carl Edvard Rotwitt who had his home there at the time of his early death in 1866.
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