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April 17, 2024, Denmark: PPE-Agency. Photographer Henrik Hildebrandt...Phone. +004528398060...-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------..The iconic stock exchange building on Slotsholmen caught fire on Tuesday morning. The cause of the fire is still unknown -..Børsen is a building on Slotsholmen in Copenhagen..... It was built in the 1620s as a trading building by King Christian IV and functioned as a commodity exchange right up until the 19th century...In 1883, the roof was replaced with copper, the current roof coating, and it was, among other things, the copper roof that was under renovation when a fire broke out in the building on 16 April 2024.....The plan was to finish the work and mark the 400th anniversary of the opening of the Stock Exchange in autumn 2024...King Christian IV, 1577-1648.King Christian IV, 12.4.1577-28.2.1648, king of Denmark and Norway from 1596; son of Frederik II and Sophie of Mecklenburg, married 1597 to Anna Cathrine of Brandenburg and 1615 to Kirsten Munk. After his baptism in 1577 and until 1579, Christian stayed with his grandparents in Mecklenburg, and at the age of three he was chosen as heir to the throne. In 1582-83, Christian s further education was placed in the hands of his master of the court, the Pomeranian-born nobleman Henrik Ramel (ca. 1550-1610), and of the chaplain Hans Mikkelsen. The father s death in 1588 triggered a struggle for influence on Christian s upbringing. A board of trustees consisting of four councilors replaced Christian s German court master with a Danish one and limited the dowager queen Sophie s influence. While the German emperor declared Christian of legal age in the duchies in 1593, he had to wait until 1596 before he could be crowned as Danish-Norwegian king as an adult. (Credit Image: © Henrik Hildebrandt/DDP/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)
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