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Buildings
The Old Town features 75 buildings from 20 Danish towns while another three are in storage awaiting later reconstruction. The oldest structure is a warehouse from Aalborg (c. 1550) and the youngest is a garden pavilion from the Danish National Exhibition of 1909 in Aarhus. The majority of the structures are from the mid 18th to early 19th centuries in typical half-timbered renaissance style. The largest buildings are the Coin Master's Mansion from Copenhagen (c. 1683), the Mayor's House from Aarhus (c. 1597), a merchant's house from Aarhus (c. 1723) and the Aalborg Estate from Aalborg (c. 1570 and 1807). Many smaller buildings of diverse persuasions are scattered around the site, ranging from ordinary residences to a small dock for boat construction, a tobacco barn, watermills and a windmill.

Coin Master's Mansion
The half-timbered Coin Master's Mansion was built in 1683 on Borgergade 25 in Copenhagen's Nykøbenhavn neighborhood. The mansion was constructed by the royal Master of the Mint Gregorius Sessemann as the residence for royal coin masters and it was used as such up to 1752. The building was large and presentable for its time but after a few decades it came to appear old fashioned and it was eventually renovated and altered a number of times. The first major renovation took place in the 1700s when many Baroque elements were added and it is the result of this renovation that was eventually reconstructed in The Old Town. First the exterior was painted to resemble stone and in 1720 a Baroque staircase was installed to replace the exterior stairs and galleries which were removed. In the 1760s the interior decor and furnishings was updated in the Rococo style.

From the 1700s to the mid-1800s Copenhagen experienced a population boom but the defensive ramparts ringing the city limited outwards expansion so housing became denser and apartments smaller. As a result the mansion was renovated again in the early 1800s; the timber framing was plastered over, the bay window and front dormers were removed and a large window was installed on the first floor. The large apartments were divided into smaller rental units and the building became a regular apartment building. In the late 1800s Nykøbenhavn gradually became a slum and in 1938 the Interior Ministry determined it had become hazardous for human habitation. As a result the neighborhood was redeveloped and most buildings demolished through the 1940s and 1950s. The director of Copenhagen's City Museum, Christian Axel Jensen, took initiative to save the building and in 1944 it was dissassembled, registered and stored in a warehouse at Vestre Cemetery. Originally the intent was to reconstruct it in an open-air museum in Copenhagen but the plans never materialized and in 1995 it was given to the Old Town which which in 2009 reconstructed it in its c. 1750 Baroque version.

Mayor's House
The Mayor's House is a significant Danish half-timbered renaissance building with some unique architectural features. It was the first building in The Old Town and is still one of the central pieces in the town, located centrally on the corner of Torvet (The Square) and Algade. It was built in 1597 on Lille Torv in Aarhus on the corner of Vestergade and Immervad where present-day department store Magasin du Nord is situated. The name of the building refers to three mayors who owned it around 1700 although this name was not used until later; in the 1800s it was known as the Secherske Gård (Sechers' House).

The mansion is a half-timbered, three winged structure in three stories with a jettied storey carried by wooden corbels. The panels of the exterior walls are patterned brickwork and in the courtyard there are galleries to all three sides. The mansion was used as a merchant's house until 1872 when it was divided into apartments and smaller shops. It was taken apart in 1908 and reconstructed the following year in Tangkrogen for the Danish National Exhibition of 1909 where it was used as the museum for the historical exhibition of crafts and historical interiors. After the exhibition the mansion remained as the sole structure on the exhibition grounds until 1913 when it was finally moved to its current location in Det Jydske Haveselskab, the precursor to The Old Town. In 1914-22 the ground floor was used for a local-historical photo exhibition while the first floor was furnished. Today the whole building contains a cavalcade of furniture from 1600 to 1850 along with a small 1700s store.

Merchant's Mansion
The merchant's mansion from Aarhus is the main parts of a large mansion originally located at Brobjerg Port (Brobjerg Gate), later named Frederiks Port (Frederik's Gate), the city gate at the end of Frederiksgade on the city limit at the time, opposite present day city hall.

The mansion was rebuilt in The Old Town in 1942. Facing the street there is a grocery, residential wing and large grain storage in the attic and the stable and garden are situated in the back. The merchant's mansion is now home to one of the regular exhibits in the museum, The Merchant Mansion of 1864.

The mansion was built in 1723 by a merchant at the end of Frederiksgade on the corner of Sønder Allé. It was originally known as S. M. Holsts gård (S.M. Holst's House).

The building was reconstructed on The Old Town in three wings and two stories. The main building has a jettied first floor carried by corbels. The first floor was originally used for grain storage.

The building was used by merchants up to 1937, as a home, for storage and with a store, when it was given to the Old Town. In 1939 it was taken down and in 1942 erected again in the museum. The building was erected on Toldbodsgade  at Lille Torv close by the harbor, across from the Aarhus Custom House. Today it's used to showcase the life of a merchant in c. 1864 with store, office and waiting rooms for customers along with a number of private rooms used by the merchant family. Much of the interior and furnishings is from the family Wistoft who lived in Raae's House in Studsgade. One of the wings contains the lathe operators workshop and store, innaugurated 1941.


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Aalborg Estate
The Aalborg Estate consists of five buildings, two from c. 1570, one from c. 1585, one from c. 1634 and one from c. 1807. The complex was part of the same merchant's estate in central Aalborg and was rebuilt in The Old Town in 1926 and 1934 and one building now doubles as a brewery. http://www.dengamleby.dk/viden/huse-fra-hele-danmark/huse-fra-nordjylland/aalborggaarden/ http://www.byhistorie.dk/aalborggaarden/

Aarhus Mill
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The Renaissance House
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Helsingør Theater


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Parks, nature and recreation


Lede/intro - overview Aarhus has 134 parks covering 550 ha with an additional 1300 ha of forest and 500 ha of mixed natural areas such as lakes, grassland and bogs. In total the municipal park service Natur og Miljø (Department of Nature and Environment) manages 840 sqft of forest and parkland per municipal inhabitant; a high number relative to, for instance, Copenhagen which has only 470 sqft per inhabitant. The mild, temperate marine climate in Aarhus allows for outdoor recreation year round and the Bay of Aarhus, shielded by Helgenæs and Samsø, is ideal for water sports while the hilly urban forests are popular for mountain biking and orienteering.



Public policies and facilities Aarhus Municipality maintains a range of recreational infrastructure on public land to facilitate use of it. Including the northernmost Studstrup Beach and the southernmost Norsminde Beach, there are 14 public beaches and the 2 sea baths, Den Permanente and Ballehage Beach. Placed along the most popular running and cycling routes there are 26 open-air exercise stations with basic but sturdy fitness machines and weights. Marked routes for running, hiking and mountain biking criss-cross the larger parks and forests and in the bay, on the north side of the Docklands, swimming lanes are marked with buoys. Dedicated pathways for pedestrians and cyclists radiate from the city center to the suburbs and countryside; the best known of which is the 30 km long Brabrandstien which encircles Brabrand Lake, the largest of 4 Natura 2000 sites in the municipality.

Parks The largest park in Midtown is the Botanical Gardens (Botanisk Have) which hosts collections of flora from across the world, including greenhouses for tropical and subtropical plants. The second major park complex in the city center is the undulating University Park, recognized for its unique design by landscape architect Carl Theodor Sørensen, and the nearby, smaller Vennelystparken. The Memorial Park (Mindeparken) hosts a World War I memorial and offers a panoramic view of the bay with the royal summer palace as the backdrop. In the central boroughs there are also Vestre Cemetery on Vesterbro and Nordre Cemetery on Trøjborg which double as parks for quiet uses. Other notable parks include the City Hall Park (Rådhusparken) and the adjoining Concert Hall Park (Musikhusparken) with detailed landscaping and many sculptures. Marselisborg Deer Park (Marselisborg Dyrehave) comprises 22 ha of fenced woodland pastures with free-roaming sika and roe deer. The Marienlyst Park (Marienlystparken) in Hasle is the largest park in the city on c. 20 ha of wooded hills, open grasslands and soccer fields and Tangkrogen is the primary event venue for events that require days or weeks to set up. Hasle Hills, Skjoldhøjkilen and Vestereng are areas laid out for recreational use but left in a wilder, more natural state.

Urban forests The forests around Aarhus are 90% deciduous and presents some of only a few large, natural beech forests in Denmark. The municipal forests and other natural lands cover 1800 ha of which 1300 ha are older forests from the 1800s, primarily situated by the coast north and south of the city. The remaining 500 ha are the New Forests of Aarhus, established since 1988 on former farmland mainly north and west of the city. The hills on the coast north of the city center are occupied by the 81 ha Riis Forest while the larger 800 ha Marselisborg Forests occupy the southern hills, extending from Marselisborg some 8 kilometers south along the coast. The Marselisborg Forests presents a historical landscape that spans the entire history of the city. Stone and Bronze Age tumuli, sunken lanes and other ancient artifacts are common throughout the woods and the Moesgård Manor from 1778, the Varna Palaca from 1908, the Marselisborg Palace from 1902 and three storied water mills all testify to the cultural and historical importance of the Marselisborg forests to Aarhus. Today the forests are especially popular for green exercise and sporting events are hosted there regularly. -->