The House of 1929
The listing dates the house at Bernhard Bangs Allé 24 to 1929, and its roof is new from 2024. The first-floor apartment holds five rooms in 119 square metres.
The front is red brick under a tile roof with arched dormers, a stepped brick cornice and a small pediment. The blue door sits in an arched stone surround, with the number 24 in frosted glass above it. Inside, the floors are solid chevron, the dining room ceiling stands 2.85 metres high, and the plaster work runs to ceiling roses, stepped ceiling frames and cornices carved in egg and dart.
A Street Named for a Veterinarian
Bernhard Bangs Allé takes its name from Bernhard Bang (1848 to 1932), the Danish veterinarian who identified the bacillus behind contagious abortion in cattle in 1897. A local street-name guide credits him with nearly eradicating tuberculosis in Danish cattle and dates the street's naming to 1903.
Across the Street, a Shoe Factory
Frederiksberg's municipal plan of 2021 draws the southern edge of the Femte Juni Plads villa quarter along a line that includes Bernhard Bangs Allé, with the former industrial quarter beyond it. The factory at numbers 25 to 29 stands on that far side. Svend Gunnersen Harboe and Helge Finsen designed it in 1937 and 1938 for the footwear makers Wedéla and Alsboe, and the two names are still painted on its wall, visible from the courtyard in the photographs.
The house went up in 1929, eight years before the factory across the way.
