the site of Carlsberg Brewery
/When JC Jacobsen decided to build a new brewery outside the city, one reason would have been a need for more space to expand the business …. his first brewery was in a courtyard in Brolæggerstræde - close to Nytorv in the centre of Copenhagen - in a property that had been purchased by his father in 1826.
However, he must also have been concerned about finding a clean and consistent source of fresh water and for ways to discard the waste from the brewing process - not easy in the densely packed streets of the old city.
By 1847, Jacobsen had found what we would call now a greenfield site nearly 3 kilometres outside the city and built his new brewery there, alongside a new railway so, then, his next problem must surely have been finding men prepared to go that far out of the city to work. The story of Carlsberg is an important example that shows how Danish manufacturers moved production and labour from small urban workshops to new and rapidly expanding and rapidly developing factories outside the city.
