H. C. Ørsteds Vej

File:HC Ørsteds Vej - railway crossing.jpg crossed H. C. Ørsteds Vej as viewed from the south in the 1910s]]

The oldest section of the street, between Amalievej and Fuglevangsvej, was created and named in 1852. The section from Fuglevangsvej and Åboulevard (then Vinkelvej) was created in 1857, This new section of the street was originally called Jernbanevej since it was crossed by the tracks of the Nordbanen and Copenhagen–Fredericia/Taulov Line railway lines which split at Ladegårdsåen. Jernbanevej was included in H. C. Ørstedsvej in 1870.{{cite web|url=https://www.dengang.dk/artikler/2123|title=Gader og veje på Frederiksberg (A – J)|language=da|website=dengang.dk|access-date=23 October 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.frederiksberg.dk/sites/default/files/2017-01/lp181_ny.pdf|title=Helhedsplan og lokalplan 181|language=da|website=dengang.dk|access-date=23 October 2019}}

File:HC Ørstedsvej from Gammel Kongevej (Pre-1900=.jpg

Henning Wolf's masterplan for Frederiksberg Villa Quarter, a neighbourhood of single-family detached homes in the area north of Gammel Kongevej, it involved an extension of Jernbanevej to Gammel Kongevej. Other elements in Wolf's masterplan were the extension of Kastanievej to H. C. Ørstedsvej, establishment of Alhambravej, Uraniavej, Mynstersvej, Svanholmsvej and Forhåbningsholms Allé.{{cite web|url=http://www.byogland.dk/documents/fredning_lindevej_frederiksberg.pdf|title=Hans Christian Henning Wolff|language=da|publisher=.byogland.d|access-date=2014-10-27}} A first short extension of Jernbanevej was initially called Priors Allé after a local landowner, a merchant named Prior, who owned a property at the site. The Trier family, who owned the country house Wilhelmineslyst at Gammel Kongevej, blocked the last section of the road extension until 1873. Priors Allé and Vilhelmineslyst Allé were at this point both included in H. C. Ørsteds Allé.

In 1860, Det Danske Gaskompagni ("The Danish Gas Company") opened Frederiksberg's first gasworks at the street. It closed in 1890 when the new Frederiksberg Gasworks opened at Flintholm a few kilometres outside the expanding town centre.{{cite web|url=http://www.fab-denhvideby.dk/historie.html|title=Historien|language=da|publisher=Vejlauget FAB|access-date=2010-01-04|archive-date=2014-10-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025173614/http://www.fab-denhvideby.dk/historie.html|url-status=dead}}

In 1873, M.I. Ballins Sønner (from 1918 Ballin & Hertz), a tannery and manufacturer of leather goods, built a factory at No. 48–50. The company moved to Valby in 1924 and its buildings on H. C. Ørsteds Vej were later demolished.

The railway crossing disappeared in the 1930s with the opening of the Boulevard Line in the 1930s.

File:Taarnet.jpg's "tower", at the corner with Kastanievej, for which his periodical Taarnet ("The Tower") was named ]]

File:H.C. Ørsteds Vej 54 (Frederiksberg).jpg

File:H.C. Ørsteds Vej No 60-62.jpg

The building on the corner of H. C. Ørsteds Vej and Kastanievej is the one for which Johannes Jørgensen's periodical Taarnet ("The Tower") was named. He lived on the top floor between 1891 and 1893.

The four-storey Functionalist property at No. 54 is from 1934 and was designed by Edvard Thomsen for his father. It contains a post office on the ground floor and apartments on the upper floors.{{cite web|url=http://www.kulturarv.dk/1001fortaellinger/da_DK/h-c-oerstedsvej-54-frederiksberg|title=Funktiononalistiske boliger på Frederiksberg|language=da|publisher=Kulturstyrelsen|access-date=2014-10-26}}{{cite web|url=http://www.arkark.dk/building.aspx?buildingid=3419|title=Frederiksberg, H. C. Ørsteds Vej 54|publisher=arkark.dk|access-date=25 October 2014|archive-date=23 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923173748/http://www.arkark.dk/building.aspx?buildingid=3419|url-status=dead}}

Handskemagerforeningens Stiftelse (No. 60–62) was built for the Glovemakers' Association in 1880 to design by Alfred Råvad and August Johansen.{{cite web|url=https://runeberg.org/trap/3-1/0529.html|title=Kongeriget Danmark|language=da|publisher=j. P, Trap|access-date=2 January 2020}}

Åhusene ("The River Houses") at the corner with Åboulevard were designed by Ulrik Plesner and are from 1936 - 1938.{{cite web|url=http://www.arkark.dk/building.aspx?buildingid=1883|title=Åhusene, København|publisher=arkark.dk|access-date=2014-10-25|archive-date=2015-09-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923173712/http://www.arkark.dk/building.aspx?buildingid=1883|url-status=dead}}

The Forum Copenhagen Metro station at Julius Thomsens Plads is located just east of the northern end of the street by way of Rosenørns Allé. The southern end of the street is located closer to Frederiksberg Allé Station by way of Alhambravej and Frederiksberg Allé.

• Christine Daugaard (1831–1917), writer and poet, lived on a villa on the road in 1867.{{cite web|title=Danske Forfatterinder i det nittende Hundredaar|url=https://runeberg.org/danforf/daugachr.html|first=Anton|last=Anderson|language=Danish|date=2012|access-date=22 August 2024}}
• Carl Aller (1845–1926), magazine publisher, lived at No. 48 in 1883.{{cite web|url=http://www.indenforvoldene.dk/bopaelsregister-a|title=Bopælsregister: A|language=da|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=4 January 2020}}
• Johannes Helms (1828–1895), educator and writer, lived at No. 32 in 1880–81.{{cite web|url=http://www.indenforvoldene.dk/bopaelsregister-h|title=Bopælsregister: H|language=da|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=4 January 2020}}
• Johannes Jørgensen, poet, lived at No. 15
• Peter Lange-Müller (1850–1926), composer, lived on the 1st floor at No. 20A in 1883–91.{{cite web|url=http://www.indenforvoldene.dk/bopaelsregister-l|title=Bopælsregister: L|language=da|publisher=indenforvoldene.dk|access-date=4 January 2020}}

• Bülowsvej
• Amalievej

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• [http://kunstbib.dk/samlinger/arkitekturtegninger/vaerker/000027230/1 H. C. Ørstedsvej 54], architectural renderings

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