page_title: Sankt Petri Passage
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sankt Petri Passage / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Telefonhuset in Copenhagen, Denmark
context_page_description: Sankt Petri Passage is a passageway and surrounding mixed-use complex linking Nørregade with Larslejsstræde in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The National Romantic complex was built for the telephone company KTAS in the 1900s and is also known as Telefonhuset. The new name refers to neighbouring St Petri's Church. Current tenants include KVUC as well as several Danish and international companies.
context_section_description: KTAS was first based in the Jorcks Passage complex. The company acquired the site in Nørregade from 1899 and the architect Fritz Koch was selected for the task of designing a new headquarters. Construction began in 1900 but progressed slowly due to financial difficulties.  and 1909. Jens Ingwersen took over the project following Koch's death in 1906 and the complex was finally inaugurated in 1909. It was later expanded between 1917 and 1938, both with the incorporation of the existing properties at Nørregade 27 and 29 and with new buildings designed by Ingwersen on Larslejsstræde (No. 4–6) and Nørre Voldgade (No. 38) on the other side of the block. The complex contained both company headquarters, workshops and telephone main central.
  KTAS Pensionskasse (KRAS pension fund), the owner of the office complex, sold it to Carlyle Group in 2007 in anticipation of TDC's move to a new headquarters at Teglholmen in 2009. The building complex was subsequently put through a comprehensive refurbishment undertaken by Revco Property Development and renamed Sankt Petri Passage with a reference to neighbouring St Petri's Church. Sankt Petri Passage was sold to Industriens Pension in January 2015.
caption: The Telephone House photographed shortly after its completion by Fritz Theodor Benzen
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