page_title: Absalonsgade
section_title: Notable buildings and residents
hierarchical_section_title: Absalonsgade / Notable buildings and residents
caption_attribution_description: Building in Vesterbro, Copenahgen, Denmark
context_page_description: Absalonsgade is a street in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Vesterbrogade in the north to Sønder Boulevard in the south and passes Istedgade on the way. The Museum of Copenhagen has a small display of historical street furniture next to its former building at the corner with Vesterbrogade. One of two entrances to the Shooting Range Garden is located in the street.
context_section_description: The former Marie Kruse's School (No. 3) was built in 1880 to designs by Johannes Emil Gnudtzmann. Marie Kruse lived in an apartment in the attic. In 1886,  Kruse moved the school into new premises on Frederiksberg Allé. The building in Absalonsgade was then taken over by Copenhagen Municipality and operated as a public primary school under the name Absalonsgade School until the First World Warl.
  Vester Vov Vov cinema (No. 5) opened in 1975 and is the oldest still operating art cinema in Denmark. It is based in the former Vesterbro Roman Baths. The Empire style building is from 1869 and was designed by  Carl Lendorf. Vesterbro Roman Baths comprised a series of vaulted bathrooms with a Roman style firing system under the floor. Guests could get a Roman bath for 72 skilling, a hot water bath for 32 skilling or a shower for 16 skilling.  Lendorf had together with destiller J. C. Olsen and Odense-based industrialist Ernst Traube, Odense purchased the site from the city.
  The former police station at the corner with Svendsgade (Svendsgade 3) has  now been converted into apartments. The building is from 1882 and was designed by Ludvig Fenger. The windows in the ground floor were originally arched but has been adapted.
  No. 17 is from 1874 and was designed by Charles Abrahams. No. 22 is from 1869 and was designed by Vilhelm Friederichsen. No. 17 is from 1874 and was designed by Charles Abrahams. To the rear of No. 28, with views of the Shooting Range Garden, is a Jugendstil-influenced building from 1903 designed by Aage Langeland-Mathiesen. 
  Vesterbro Ungdomsgård (No. 10) is located just inside the gate to the Shooting Range Garden. It was built by city architect Hans Christian Hansen in 1952-53.
caption: No. 3
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