page_title: Tagensvej
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Tagensvej / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Tagenshus at Lersøen outside Copenhagen, Denmark
context_page_description: Tagensvej is a major street in the northwestern part of inner Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Blegdamsvej on the border between Nørrebro and Østerbro in the southeast to Frederiksborgvej and Bispebjerg Cemetery in the northwest.
context_section_description: The road takes its name after Tagenshus, a house located just north of the junction with Jagtvej from 1631. Built as residence for the attendant of Borgmestervangen and Tådmandsvangen, two pastures available to the mayors of Copenhagen, it received its name after a Tage Nielsen who died in 1704. A so-called bird's pole (Danish: Fuglestang) had already been installed at the site in 1616. It was used for the king's falcons and later also for ceremonial shootings and as the location of illegal duels up through the 18th century.
  Tagensvej was originally only a track that linked Jagtvej with the Lersøen lake to the northwest. The area between Blegdamsvej and Jagtvej was still a military area when industrial enterprises began relocating the road in the 1880s. [[Holger Petersen (1843–1917)
  |Holger Petersen]]'s textile factory occupied a new factory on the street in 1883. S. C. Hauberg established a machine factory on Tagensvej in 1885. Other early industrial enterprises were Københavns Saffiansfabrikm a manufacturer of goat's skin products founded in 1869, and Copenhagen's Horse Shoe Factory.
   
  Hauberg paid for a new embankment across Sortedam Lake and a horse-drawn tram line began operating between the city centre and his plant in 1887 but a road connection was not constructed until the army finally released the area in 1899. Tagensvej was extended to its current length in 1903 as part of the plans for the new Bispebjerg district.
  Hauberg's machine factory merged with another enterprise under the name Titan in 1897.
caption: Tagenshus in 1884
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