The old Copenhagen Stock Exchange, consumed by flames, causing part of the roof and the spire of the tower to collapse

He symbolic building fire of the old Copenhagen Stock Exchange, which opened this Tuesday morning, is “under control”Emergency services said in the afternoon. “We are in the midst of post-extinction work,” emergency services director Jacob Vedstad Andersen told reporters.

When the fire, the cause of which is still unknown, was announced at 7:30 a.m. local time (5:30 GMT), ten employees of the company restoring the building – which has been under construction since 2022 – were inside, and they Danish media reported that they stood up on their own and were unharmed.

Half of the building has been affected by the fire. Copenhagen’s director of emergency services said, “We are continuing to fight the fire. New complications have arisen. Internal support structures have burned, walls have become unstable. That’s what we are focusing on now.” Jacob Vedstad Anderson,

Anderson highlighted that the building was surrounded by scaffolding and it could not be ruled out that the construction collapsed. The symbolic spire of its 54-meter tower collapsed in flames.

The fire started under the roof, which has copper elements and is difficult to access, and caused the flames to spread to the rest of the building’s floors.

This building, one of the oldest surviving buildings in Copenhagen, was constructed between 1619 and 1623 on the orders of? King Christian IV and served as the Danish capital’s stock exchange until 1974.

It was currently the headquarters of Chamber of Commerce And its facade and roof were being renovated, a process scheduled to be completed in 2029.

“This morning we woke up to a tragic image as the smoke on Copenhagen’s rooftops reflected the devastating fire in the stock market,” King Frederick He thanked emergency workers and police for their work. There will be injuries.

Many parts of Christiansborg Castle, the parliament building located near the burning building, have been evacuated as a precaution.

Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, He described the fire as “horrible” and regretted that “a piece of Danish history was burning” while he was Defense Minister. trolls lund paulsenThe incident was referred to as “our Notre Dame moment”, alluding to the famous Paris cathedral fire in 2019.

According to experts quoted in the media, it is possible that the restoration work has increased the risk of fire, although it is still unknown what caused the fire.

At the end of the 19th century the building had a copper roof, which is currently preserved.

The four intertwined dragon tails of the spire were topped by three crowns, symbolizing the Scandinavian kingdom. Denmark, Norway and Sweden,

According to ancient legends, the dragon protected the building from enemy attacks and fires and, as the guide explains, the construction has been mysteriously preserved to this day and has on several occasions been saved from damage when neighboring buildings were set on fire Was.

Christiansborg Palace (now the Danish Parliament) has burned several times and most recently, in 1990, a fire broke out in the nearby Provintgarden on Slotsholmsgade (Slotholm Street). On this occasion, as before, the Old Stock Exchange emerged unscathed.

Currently, the Old Stock Exchange is used for gala dinners, conferences, parties and other events and is not open to the public.

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