EXPLORING Tasso/Albani AREA, 05 25 fantastic industries

SEe WWW.25FANTASTISKE.DK From the 1840s onwards, Odense changed from an old market town to an industrial city. Industrialisation resulted in the typical middle and working-class divisions of the urban spaces. The blue-collar workers lived in working class neighbourhoods, while the white-collar workers moved into houses of their own. Today, only a fraction remains of the extensive industry of Odense. Yet this is where history tells its tale of the industrialisation that shaped the city. What is commonly known as the Tasso/Albani Area is one of the best examples of a classic mix of residential and industrial buildings.

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01 Frederiksbroen, Brogade/ Frederiksgade 03 Workmen’s housing, Langegade 05 Factory owner villas, Kronprinsensgade Frederiksbroen from 1844 is ’s oldest cast-iron bridge Close to the two large workplaces, Albani and Tasso, is the The north side of Kronprinsensgade is one of the first residen- (the world’s oldest is in Coalbrookdale in the UK, dating from street of Langegade with its dense, low, uniform housing from tial districts in Odense. The local factory owners and mer- 1779). It was cast at M.P. Allerup’s Iron Foundry. Frost, master 1865 to 1870. The dormer windows are later additions. The chants – the new upper class of the industrial society builder, and Peter Recke, chief engineer, both provided a houses are brick-built, with tiled roofs and back yards. A visit – lived here in grand villas overlooking Odense River and 10-year guarantee on their bridge design and construction. to this street reveals that it is only the west side of the street cathedral. No. 7 was the home of the iron founder, Hans 150 years on, the bridge is still standing, although the road is that contains housing, as the iron foundry on Frederiksgade Rasmussen, who owned Tasso on Frederiksgade. Originally now made of reinforced concrete and the fine cast-iron spans fills the entire block as far as Langegade’s east side. The semi-detached, the house was built in 1878 by the prominent support only the pavement. appearance of the street is largely unchanged, although some Odense architect, J. Vilhelm Petersen, for the merchant C.T. of the original 16 houses in the terrace had to be demolished Jensen, who later sold it to the owner of Tasso at the turn of 02 Tasso, no. 35-57 Frederiksgade/Langegade to make way for the Albani brewery’s expansions. the century. Until then, the iron master had lived at the front The Tasso Iron Foundry is the last of Odense’s iron foundries of his foundry. still in operation at its original address. The foundry was estab- 04 Albani breweries, no. 19 Tværgade lished in 1856 by Hans Rasmussen, who had been apprenticed In 1859, brewery owner L.T. Schiøtz, who had worked for RELATED SITES: to M.P. Allerup and specialised in cast-iron stoves. The buil- Jacobsen at Carlsberg, started up production of Bavarian dings have largely survived intact with the front building; the ( beer) in the new brewery on the new street of Odense City Museums The Danish Railway long, two-storey building with its large cast-iron windows; Albanigade. The brewery’s red-brick buildings with their Overgade 48 Museum the fine red-brick building with its arched windows from 1903 Gothic corbie gables and arched cast-iron windows repre- 5000 Odense C Dannebrogsgade 24 designed by P.C. Monberg; and the yellow gable building from sented the city’s first major industrial plant. The oldest section T 6551 4601 5000 Odense C 1907, which was used as a warehouse and for storing patterns of the brewery was designed by P. Seidelin, a Copenhagen www.museum.odense.dk T 6613 6630 – wooden models of the objects to be cast in iron. The rear of architect, and is seen as the western end of the long building. www.jernbanemuseet.dk the factory complex extends as far as Langegade. Not until The eastern end (facing Frederiksgade) was designed by C. Brandts Klædefabrik 1967 did the company acquire its present name of Tasso, Lendorf, a local architect, and built in 1873. The brewery used Brandts Torv 1 from one of its best-known products, a radiator. ice from Odense River, which was stored in the vaulted cellars. 5000 Odense C The cellars were constructed out of cement, which at that time T 6520 7000 was new to Denmark. www.brandts.dk