Dronning Louises Bro is a bridge

Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

 crossing The Lakes in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

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 - specifically Peblingesø (lit.: The Learners Lake) and Sortedamssø (lit.: Black Pond Lake) -, named after Queen Louise

Louise of Hesse-Kassel

Louise of Hesse was a German Princess and the queen consort to King Christian IX of Denmark.-Early Life and Ancestry:...

 who was married to King Christian IX

Christian IX of Denmark

Christian IX was King of Denmark from 16 November 1863 to 29 January 1906.Growing up as a prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, a junior branch of the House of Oldenburg which had ruled Denmark since 1448, Christian was originally not in the immediate line of succession to the Danish...

. The bridge was designed by the Danish architect Vilhelm Dahlerup

Vilhelm Dahlerup

Jens Vilhelm Dahlerup was a Danish architect who specialized in the Historicist style. One of the most productive and noted Danish architects of the 19th century, he is behind many of the most known buildings and landmarks of his time and has more than any other single architect contributed to the...

, and constructed between 1885 and 1887. It now connects the two urban areas City

Indre By

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 and Nørrebro

Nørrebro

Nørrebro is one of the 10 official districts of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is northwest of the city centre, beyond the location of the old Northern Gate , which, until dismantled in 1856, was near the current Nørreport station.-Geography:...

.

Dronning Louises Bro, which is made of granite

Granite

Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...

, replaced the bridge Peblingebroen, which couldn't handle the rising amount of traffic. It was constructed with three portals for water traffic and equipped with four great flagpoles and eight lampposts. The bridge is now a part of the line Nørrebro Station

Nørrebro station

Nørrebro station is a station on the S-train’s Ring line in Copenhagen, Denmark. It serves the outer end of the Nørrebro district. The planned City Circle Line would see underground trains of the Copenhagen Metro begin serving the station as well....

-Nørreport Station

Nørreport station

Nørreport Station is a mainline railway, S-train and Copenhagen Metro station located in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the busiest train station in the country, serving 300,000 people daily, including passengers not stepping off. There are 165.000 leaving or entering trains including the metro...

(comprising Nørrebrogade, Dronning Louises Bro and Frederiksborggade), and as such has often been a venue for riot

Riot

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s and demonstrations

Demonstration (people)

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; most famously the riots after the vote on Danish Maastricht treaty referendum

Danish Maastricht Treaty referendum, 1993

A second referendum on the Maastricht Treaty was held in Denmark on 18 May 1993. After rejecting the treaty in a referendum the previous year, this time it was approved by 56.7% of voters with an 86.5% turnout.-Background:...

 in 1993, the clearance of Ungdomshuset in 2007 and new years evening 2007/2008.0