K.B. Hallen

K.B. Hallen was a multi-purpose venue located at Peter Bangs Vej in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built in 1938 by Kjøbenhavns Boldklub (KB), Copenhagen's oldest ball-playing club who still owns the site, but was severely damaged by fire on 28 September 2011.It was used primarily for badminton, tennis, basketball and volleyball, but also hosted other events, including dance tournaments and flea markets. As a concert hall, it held a capacity of 3,000 people and was often the scene of rock and pop concerts, and in 1964 The Beatles played their first and only concert on Danish grounds in K.B.Hallen.HistoryKjøbenhavns Boldklub acquired the large site on the south side of Peter Bangs Vej in 1924. K.B. Hallen was inaugurated in the presence of king Christian X on 22 April 1938. The architect was Hans Hansen and the chief engineer Christen Ostenfeld.Poul Henningsen designed special lighting and an adjacent ballroom called "Pejsesalen", where a large mural was painted.Following Operation Safari and the scuttling of the Danish navy in 1943, most navy personnel were interned at KB Hallen. In the summer of 1944, K.B. Hallen was subject to so-called schalburgtage when members of the Schalburg Corps placed a bomb in the hall, destroying most of the furniture and glasswork, but the building itself was left intact, rendering the hall closed for only half a year afterwards.