Likørstræde (Liqueur Street)
Marker 12.
Lyngby
Likørstræde (Liqueur Street)Marker 12. |
Lyngby
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Likørstræde (Liqueur Street) is a small pedestrian street that heads west from Lyngby Hovedgade (High Street) between No.s 72 and 74. The street leaves Lyngby High Street under a characteristic lintel with a pantile roof and advertisements. The lintel can be seen on photographs back to around 1910.Originally Likørstræde was a gravel road that connected Bagergården (Baker’s farm) to its fields west of town. Ulrikkenborg Plads (Square) and parts of the railway Square are on these fields now.
Likørstræde has had several names. From the end of the 1800s it was called Ulrikkenborg Stræde because it also led to the fields of the farm Ulrikkenborg on the other side of the railway. The road was then called Carlsbergvej from 1921 to 1938 because there was a beer depot (storage facility) on the street. From 1938 the road was called Knud Lavardsvej after the Catholic school and church which was built that year. When the current Sankt Knud Lavard Church on Toftebæksvej began operation in 1957, the old building was taken over by Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality and turned into an activity centre. Knud Lavardsvej lost its name and was then just a part of Lyngby High Street until 1977 when it received its current name, Likørstræde.
Why the street is called Likørstræde dates from around 1950. There were some workshops in sheds and garages along the street and the people who worked there had a distillation apparatus hidden under a canopy behind one of the sheds. To improve the taste of the alcohol they added liqueur essence and, when much later the little road should have its own name, the name Likørstræde was chosen as an allusion to the former still.