The history of Tinggade
Tinggade was created by breaking through Sct. Hansgade in 1922, where the existing buildings Sct. Hansgade no. 14 and 16 were demolished.
Before the road was called Tinggade, it was called Nygade, because it was a new street. The name appears on the earliest maps from the 1920s and on tax lists from the period. The police station (Tinghuset) at the end of the road had not yet been built. At some point between 1926 and 1930 the road name was changed to Tinggade,
In the early years, the road was undeveloped on both sides at the southern end, flanked only by the existing houses. Over the next 10 years, houses were built on both sides of the road with shops on the ground floor and housing on the first and second floors.
The courthouse was built on the corner of Tinggade and Møllegade in 1933, and Tinggade now had houses on both sides along the entire length of the street. From 1928, the post office was also located on the western side of Tinggade.
Urban planning and urban expansion
The construction of Nygade/Tinggade was a consequence of Ringsted City Council's purchase of Klostergården's fields in 1917.
Ringsted City Council announced an architectural competition in 1919, and for this, architect Steen Eiler Rasmussens submitted a town plan, which was largely realized later. He included the former agricultural fields in the area west of Sct. Bendts church to the south down to the station and to the east towards Køgevej and planned new road courses. Tinggade was to function as a link towards Søgade and Torvet between the newly built residential areas to the south along the new Jyllandsgade and the new Sjællandsgade.
Tinggade's shops and traffic
Businesses
From the beginning in the 1930s, Tinggade has been a lively shopping street with photographers, watchmakers and dyers. Here was a milk supply, the Colonial House and a sandwich shop. And an embroidery shop, clothing stores, hairdressers, hardware store and a wedding dress shop. The local Ringsted office of the Danish National Telephone Company had a switchboard in Tinggade in the 1960s. And then Tinggade has housed two cinemas, Kino (no. 9) and Bio (no. 6).
Traffic
When Nygade was built in 1922, there was hardly any traffic. The increasing trade in the street meant an ever-increasing proportion of cars, cyclists and pedestrians, and sidewalks, cycle paths, parking spaces and even a roundabout in front of the Courthouse were built to ease traffic in the area.
For a short period from 2003 – 06, Tinggade was even converted into a pedestrian street to provide better space for pedestrians in the city center. Tinggade is now one-way.
