STORY: :: Denmark is rebuilding its historic stock exchange, destroyed by a fire a year ago:: April 16, 2024:: Copenhagen, Denmark:: April 15, 2025:: Lars Daugaard Jepsen, Head of Reconstruction, Danish Chamber of Commerce"Danes care about this building so very much because it's the first listed building (in Denmark). It has been a part of Danish history for 400 years and everything in (Danish) business is invented here. So we have the first national bank here, we had the first insurance company, we had the first listed company, we had the first business school, we had the first of nearly everything here. We had the first communication line to England from this very building."The 400-year-old building, parts of which were largely destroyed in the fire last year, has been covered by an outer housing as the cleanup, planning and rebuilding of the stock exchange are to take place.The fire that ripped through the building on April 16 destroyed parts of the historic structure. The blaze toppled the spire of the Old Stock Exchange and collapsed a large part of the roof, in scenes reminiscent of the fire that engulfed the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris in 2019.