The outdated Copenhagen inventory alternate, devoured by the flames of a fireplace that has collapsed a part of the roof and the spire of its tower | EUROtoday

The fireplace that has devastated the historic constructing of the outdated inventory alternate since this morning Copenhagen It stays uncontrolled after 5 hours and a part of the roof has collapsed, though there have been no accidents.

When the hearth, whose causes are nonetheless unknown, was declared at 7:30 a.m. native time (5:30 GMT), ten staff from the corporate that’s restoring the constructing – which has been below building since 2022 – had been inside, and so they left on their very own. standing and unhurt, Danish media reported.

The fireplace has affected half of the constructing and, though firefighters have been in a position to stop it from spreading to the opposite, they haven’t been in a position to management it but.

“We are still fighting the flames. New complications have arisen. As the internal support structures burned, the walls have been destabilized. That is what we are focusing on now,” stated the top of Copenhagen's emergency providers, Jakob Vedsted Andersen.

Andersen highlighted that the constructing is surrounded by scaffolding and that it can’t be dominated out that the development collapses.

The fireplace began below the roof, which has copper components and is tough to entry, and this allowed the flames to achieve depth and unfold to the remainder of the flooring of the constructing.

The constructing, one of many oldest surviving in Copenhagen, was constructed between 1619 and 1623 by order of the rey Christian IV and functioned because the inventory alternate of the Danish capital till 1974.

It was at the moment the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce and its façade and roof had been being restored, a course of that was scheduled to be accomplished in 2029.

“This morning we woke up with a sad image, when the smoke on the roofs of Copenhagen reflected the destructive fire in the stock market,” King Frederick X stated in an announcement, who thanked emergency personnel and the police for his or her work to stop there can be accidents.

Several wings of Christiansborg Castle, the seat of Parliament, which is situated close to the burning constructing, have been evacuated as a precaution.

The Danish Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, He described the hearth as “horrible” and regretted that “a piece of Danish history was burning”, whereas the Minister of Defence, Troels Lund Poulsenreferred to the occasion as “our Notre Dame moment”, alluding to the hearth of the well-known Paris cathedral in 2019.

According to specialists cited within the media, it’s potential that the restoration work has elevated the danger of fireside, though it’s nonetheless unknown what brought about the hearth.

At the top of the nineteenth century the constructing had a copper roof, which is what’s at the moment preserved.

The 4 intertwined dragon tails of the spire had been topped by three crowns, a logo of the Scandinavian empire made up of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

According to historic legends, the dragon protected the constructing towards enemy assaults and fires and, because the information relates, the development had been mysteriously saved till right now and on many events from struggling injury when fires broke out in neighboring buildings.

Christiansborg Palace (now the Danish Parliament) has burned down a number of instances and just lately, in 1990, a fireplace broke out within the close by Proviantgaarden on Slotsholmsgade (Slotholm Street). On this event, as earlier than, the Old Stock Exchange emerged unscathed.

Currently, the Old Stock Exchange is used for gala dinners, conferences, events and different occasions and isn’t open to the general public.