Don't be fooled by the trees! Badstuevælen has never housed the Thing.
It did host a clay pit though, where today the Thing is placed.
When in the beginning of the 19th Century the central authorities demanded streetnames in the all towns, the local council retorted to borrowing streetnames from Copenhagen regardless of their functionality here in Dragør. One of these was "Badstuestræde"(Spa Alley) and when in 1930 changed most of the names the last part was replaced by a corruption of a Dutch word for pond: "waal".
A couple of the preserved houses at the square is nos. 8(by J. H. Blichmann in 1785) and 12(from 1791), seen here flanking no. 10. No. 12 belongs since 1889 to the family Theisen.
Before we proceed along Vælen, its time for a short visit to "Vognmandsgade"(Coach Owner's Street).
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