What does a Renaissance house look like?

Anyone who has visited Aalborg can answer that: It looks just like the old Jens Bangs Stenhus (stone house).

Aalborg’s most famous building - built in 1624 - is actually a superb representative of architectural style from this historic period. It was the time when the great astronomer Tycho Brahe and Christian IV, “the builder king,” lived. When architecture flourished, and science, art and music brought light across a dark Europe. The printing press made knowledge and enlightenment accessible to the common people. But there were also poverty, the plague and witches burning at the stake.

For over 300 years, the building has been the home of Aalborg's oldest pharmacy, and in all that time the house has never been sold.

Despite the fact that Jens Bang was Aalborg's wealthiest man, he never became a member of the town government which is the reason why he is sitting at the house end sticking out his tongue at the town hall.

Read more about Jens Bangs Stonehouse in this booklet "Good Old Aalborg"