Calf stall Bastion - 4 Langebrogade, 1411, Denmark

Operated by Karberghus

About this space

On Twelfth Bastion At the beginning of the 17th century, Copenhagen expanded, when King Christian IV initiated an ambitious project – a new, fortified district on the swampy area to the south. North of Amager, Christianshavn was built by the Dutch architect Johan Semp, and with the neighborhood's perpendicular canals and streets, obvious parallels can be drawn to the canal city of Amsterdam. Christianshavn is completed with the establishment of several defense bastions, including Callebod or Kalvebod, which was established in the southernmost part in 1668. On this 12th bastion, much later, the angular, massive storehouse designed to withstand the attacks of enemies is erected; still with a military purpose, with narrow, small openings and in yellow flensborg stone with a plinth of Bornholm granite. Albeit a little cramped, 91 horses and almost 150 men find beds here spread over three floors at the beginning of the 19th century, when Copenhagen is bombarded during the Anglo-Saxon Wars in 1807. Later, the building is used exclusively as a warehouse, and although it has since found other uses, the name 'Magasinet' is still known.