Wide streets of red brick apartment blocks run north from Trianglen, and the Middelfartgade corner that was Sarah Lund's apartment building in The Killing.
What Østerbro looks like
runs north for 2.2 kilometers from Trianglen to Svanemøllen Station, lined with five and six storey apartment blocks in red brick with sandstone bay windows and reliefs over the doorways. Shops fill the ground floors the whole length of the street.
Away from the shopping street the grid narrows into straight side streets of the same red brick, some ending in a stepped gable or a scrolled parapet at the corner. Bicycles line the kerbs under the windows, and a few streets carry a double row of trees down the middle of the road.
On Østerbrogade near Trianglen, is a short run of low terraced houses in painted brick. The two storey houses sit at single family scale behind narrow front gardens. The scale drops abruptly against the taller blocks on either side.
Farther out, A.F. Kriegers Vej runs past freestanding villas in painted render with steep tiled roofs and hedges up to the pavement. A small church along the same street sits behind iron railings, its gabled front in pale render with a round window over the door.
Østerfælled Torv is a former barracks block behind an ornamental iron gate, turned into a run of shops around a paved square. The long red brick wings keep their gabled dormers and round arched doorways.
opens out at the western edge of the district, a flat green expanse with a lake, mature trees and open football pitches. Stadium rises beside it, a 35,000 seat bowl with its own gates onto Øster Allé.
Shot in Østerbro
The corner of played the exterior of Sarah Lund's apartment building in the DR1 series The Killing (Forbrydelsen), broadcast between 2007 and 2012. It is one of the ordinary five storey brick corner buildings that repeat along Østerbro's residential streets.
The Killing (Forbrydelsen), 2007
Sarah Lund's apartment corner
Sarah Lund's apartment building stood on this corner through the run of The Killing, which DR1 first broadcast in 2007. It is one of the ordinary five storey brick corner buildings that repeat along Østerbro's residential streets.
The five storey brick tenement blocks that cover Prenzlauer Berg went up in the same Wilhelmine years as Østerbro's own streets, closed around block sized courtyards with a repeated cornice line. Ornamented facades and cobbled side streets give it one of the closest matches in scale and period. Berlin's courtyards run deeper than Østerbro's and the stucco tends toward grey rather than red brick, so keep street level frames tight on the facade. Try searching brick tenement block facade now.
Vasastan's five storey apartment blocks went up on a rigid grid in the 1880s and 1890s, with plaster facades and classical ornament close to Østerbro's own scale and street width. Both were laid out with wide straight streets rather than the older lanes of their city centres. Vasastan's Neo-Renaissance plaster facade reads lighter and flatter than Østerbro's red brick, so a shot lingering on texture will give it away. Try searching plaster facade apartment street now.
De Pijp in Amsterdam, Netherlands
De Pijp's four storey brick rows share Østerbro's grid layout and period, built quickly and cheaply in the 1880s and 1890s behind narrow street frontages. The scale is a floor lower than Østerbro's own blocks and the plots run narrower, with plainer facades and less ornament. Keep the frame tight on one or two houses rather than a full block, since De Pijp's narrower plots and lower roofline show up fast in a wide shot. Try searching narrow brick rows now.
