Brick apartment blocks line a long shopping street, and a walled cemetery opens as a park at the district's edge.
What Nørrebro looks like
runs the length of the district as its shopping spine, four to six storey brick apartment blocks with shops at street level on both sides. Painted cycle lanes run the full width of the road, and buses and bikes share it with shopfronts pressed close to the kerb.
breaks off the main road as a narrow side street, its buildings painted in shades of blue and ochre with bicycles racked along both kerbs. Small shopfronts sit under three and four storeys of flats, doors and window frames picked out in a different color at almost every building.
sits along several blocks to the east behind a long brick wall, arched burial niches built into the wall itself under a red tile roof. Gravel paths run under a heavy tree canopy inside, opening onto lawns between the older headstones.
mark the district's southern edge, the water lined by apartment blocks with neon signage along the roofline on the far shore. threads between housing blocks a few streets north, a paved red strip set with imported street furniture and a run of bicycle traffic through its middle.
Shot in Nørrebro
Nørrebro played itself in two Danish films from the 1950s and 1960s, filmed inside a real apartment building and on a working theatre's own stage. Both used addresses inside the district rather than a set built to look like it.
Altid ballade, 1955
The production of Altid ballade filmed its interior scenes in a second floor apartment at Bregnerødgade 8, where the kitchen window looks straight up at the elevated S-train outside. The same film shot a bicycle theft at the corner of Ørnevej and Lundtoftegade a few streets away. Street View
Hvad vil De ha'?, 1956
Nørrebros Teater at Ravnsborggade 3 supplied the stage for Hvad vil De ha'? in 1956, with its own orchestra and comedy numbers filmed on the theatre's boards. The venue turns up again in Prinsesse for en dag six years later. Street View
Kreuzberg's courtyard tenement blocks run four to six storeys of brick around a shared yard, close to Nørrebro's own scale. Its shopping streets have the same small grocers and late night bars, and Wrangelstraße is the clearest single match for a row of them. Berlin's tenements run to red and yellow brick with taller street doors, and Denmark's painted cycle lane markings would need covering for a clean match. Try searching courtyard tenement blocks now.
Möllevången's multiethnic shopping street has the same greengrocers and kebab shops as Nørrebrogade, in the same four and five storey brick blocks. Möllevångstorget itself is the closest single match for a busy corner. Swedish street signage and yellow license plates give the country away in a wide shot, so tighter frames on the shopfronts hold the illusion best. Try searching multiethnic shopping street now.
Govanhill in Glasgow, Scotland
Govanhill's sandstone tenement flats run to the same four and five storey scale as Nørrebro's brick blocks, with shops built into the ground floor along Victoria Road. The stone is honey colored rather than brick red, which is the biggest difference at a glance. Keep the frame off the sandstone's warmer color and favor the shopfronts and cycle traffic, where the two streets read closer. Try searching sandstone tenement flats now.
