LA RUCHE (BRUMLEBY)
A jealously preserved district where you can discover low-rise houses painted in the yellow so characteristic of Copenhagen.
Here's one of those charming little corners of the countryside that Copenhagen keeps secret. The beehive was born of a philanthropic operation, following the cholera epidemic that decimated almost 5,000 of the city's inhabitants in 1853. Dr. Emil Horneman attributed the contagion of the epidemic to the stale air of the inner city, and decided to build this small district in what was then nothing but meadows and pastures. From this utopian project was born the prototype of housing for the working classes. To design the housing estate, Horneman called on Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll (1800-1856), the architect who had just designed the Thorvaldsen Museum.
240 houses were built by 1856, and a further 300 were added between 1866 and 1872, based on plans by another architect, Vilhelm Klein. This model village, with its trapezoidal plan, included not only housing, but also numerous community facilities (kindergarten, meeting room, cooperative store).
Today, this enclosed neighborhood, with its cobblestone streets delineating blocks, has lost some of its original social vocation and become a sought-after residential area... Jealously preserved from real-estate appetites and carefully restored, Brumleby offers a charming collection of low-rise houses, painted in the yellow so characteristic of Copenhagen and all with a small garden. A traffic-free paradise just a few meters from the capital's main stadium!
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