Admiral Hotel
It all started in 1787.
The Copenhagen Admiral Hotel is housed in a historic, converted warehouse close to the Copenhagen city center. The warehouse was originally built as a granary for the trading company Pingel, Meyer, Prætorius & Co. and, thanks to its architectural beauty, the building bears witness to the wealth generated by late 18th century trade.
MARITIME HUB
The warehouse started life at the time when all shipping was under sail. In those days, the harbour was a hive of bustling activity and the warehouse was a focal point for the shipping trade, not only to other parts of Denmark but to the danish colonies and the rest of the world.
THE KING BECOMES A NEIGHBOUR
In 1794, the government palace, Christiansborg, was razed to the ground and the Royal Family joined the homeless! Fortunately, four wealthy nobles had commissioned the leading architect of the day, Nicolai Egtved, to design four rococo palaces around an octagonal plaza on the opposite of Toldbodgade from the warehouse. Denmark's monarch, Christian VII, acquired the entire Amalienborg complex after the Christiansborg fire and moved in.
THE BATTLE OF COPENHAGEN
On April 2nd 1801, the Danish and English fleets fought the renowned war "Battle of Copenhagen" right outside the warehouse windows. Anyone who had sought shelter behind the massive warehouse walls might have witnessed the admiral putting his telescope to his blind eye in order to avoid acknowledging his commander's permission to withdraw.
THE SIEGE OF COPENHAGEN
On September 3rd 1807, the wings of history passed over the warehouse once again. During the second Battle of Copenhagen, a huge English fleet besieged Copenhagen and bombarded the city. While cannon fire flew over the warehouse, the streets filled with the homeless, the wounded and the dying. What is now the hotel's lounge and where the old grain drying oven once stood, was then used to provide shelter for the many wounded.
STORE 30.000 BARRELS
In the days when the warehouse was a granary, up to 30.000 barrels of grain could be stored and a grain drying oven was commissioned by and installed for the monarch. The warehouse was originally two separate buildings, which were connected by a mid-section at the end of the 19th century.
