page_title: Kongens Nytorv
section_title: Early buildings
hierarchical_section_title: Kongens Nytorv / History / Early buildings
caption_attribution_description: English: Geheimeraad Grams Gaard on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was demoliched after various changes in 1872. It was located at the site where Hotel d'Angleterre stands today.
context_page_description: Kongens Nytorv is a public square in Copenhagen, Denmark, centrally located at the end of the pedestrian street Strøget. The largest square of the city, it was laid out by Christian V in 1670 in connection with a major extension of the fortified city, and has an equestrian statue of him at its centre. The initiative moved the centre of the city from the medieval area around Gammeltorv, at that time a muddy medieval marketplace, to a cobbled new square with a garden complex, inspired by the Royal city planning seen in Paris from the early 17th century.
  Important buildings facing the square include the Royal Danish Theater from 1874, the Charlottenborg Palace from 1671, the Thott Palace from 1683, the Hotel D'Angleterre and the Magasin du Nord department store.
context_section_description: Land around the new square was distributed among interested wealthy citizens, including people from the new ranks. Buildings facing the square were required to be in at least two stories and meet certain standards. Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløvem Christian V's half-brother, completed his  Gyldenløve Mansion on the square in the mid-1780s. Admiral Henrik Bjelke constructed another town mansion on the square in the 1670s. It was in 1721 acquired by Ulrik Adolf von Holstein and was from then on known as the Holstein Mansion (Danish: Holsteins Palæ). The Juel Mansion was completed for the naval officer Niels Juel in 1683. Carl Christian von Gram was also the owner of a town mansion of the square.
  In 1688, a baroque garden complex with trees around a parterre and a gilded equestrian statue of Christian V in its centre, was inaugurated. In 1747 the entire square was rebuilt by Frederik V as a military drill and ceremony ground for the King's troops until 1908, where the square was re-shaped into its original design.
caption: The Gran Mansion
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