The Old Houses on the Harbor

The building is believed to originate from 1753, when the town council decided to erect a house to accommodate a blacksmith and a harbor equipment warehouse. It is thus, together with the pitch house, the oldest building in the harbor. By 1810 the building had reached its present size.

The house was built as a Port Office in the mid-19th century. In the same place had previously been a wooden building. At the time of construction, there were several doors in the building, but except one they had been replaced by windows. Otherwise, the building has not changed since construction.

In the Pitch House, tar and pitch were cooked for calving the ships. The house, built by the Board of Trustees during the 18th century, therefore consists in all its simplicity of an open fireplace with chimney.

There has been a royal pilot service in Dragør since 1684 - in the 1820s it was decided to build a house on the harbor so that the pilots could keep watch in dry conditions.

The Pilot Tower is located east of the old pilot station and, with just under 16 meters in height, is the tallest building on the harbor. The tower was built because Dragør Fort, built 1910-1915, blocked the pilots' free view of the Belt.

Where Dragør Strandhotel is today, in the herring market era in the 16th century there was an inn, which was later called Gamle Kro (Old Inn).

The first house at the beginning of the Northern Mole is called the Kolera Building. It was built by the naval state during the English War 1807-1814 to use the roflotile stationed here.

The Quarantine House was built in 1831 when a cholera epidemic threatened the south. Vessels coming from Baltic ports suspected of being affected by the epidemic were quarantined in the house.

The warehouse was erected in 1863 by shipowner C.C. Jans and was used as a warehouse from the beginning. Later it was also used as a material trade.