Sorte Hest

<p>Sorte Hest  is the oldest building in the <a href="/facts/Vesterbro%2c_Copenhagen/swuxF2JX">Vesterbro</a> district of <a href="/facts/Copenhagen/58Tl28IX">Copenhagen</a>, <a href="/facts/Denmark/KVtykzsw">Denmark</a>. A former roadside <a href="/facts/Inn/wfP2ggMU">inn</a>, then located well outside the limits of the <a href="/facts/Fortifications_of_Copenhagen_(17th_century)/HTtXt3o6">fortified city</a>, standing on the Vestre Landevej (Western Country Road) leading in and out of Copenhagen through the <a href="/facts/Fortifications_of_Copenhagen_(17th_century)/HTtXt3o6">Western City Gate</a>. It provided accommodation for travellers as well as citizens who failed to enter the city before the city gates were locked at sunset. Today it houses a bakery and café as well as apartments. The buildings date from 1770–1800. The entire complex was listed in the <a href="/facts/Listed_buildings_in_Vesterbro%2fKongens_Enghave/Go00dsBz">Danish registry of protected buildings and places</a> in 1980.
</p><p>The building lends its name to Teatret Sorte Hest, a theatre based in an adjacent building. The threatre's building is not related to the former inn. It is a former iron foundry founded by <a href="/facts/Heinrich_Meldahl/ULHcD36X">Heinrich Meldahl</a>, father of the architect <a href="/facts/Ferdinand_Meldahl/shaEpp7g">Ferdinand Meldahl</a>.
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