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Denmark's first architectural competition produced a red-brick cathedral for books. The old University Library at Fiolstraede 1, behind the University of Copenhagen's main building on Frue Plads, was won and built by Johan Daniel Herholdt between 1857 and 1861 - the country's oldest library institution, founded 1482, finally moving out of its cramped hall above Trinitatis Church and down the Round Tower's impractical spiral. Herholdt's Neo-Gothic design, with columns crowned in beehive capitals ...