 The name of the street is most likely a reference to the spiny shrubs thathad until then dominated the undeveloped area just inside the city's North Rampart (along present-day Nørre Voldgade) and East Rampart (along present-day Gothersgade met.The street was together with Rosenborggade laid out in the 1650s after the area known as New Copenhagen had been incorporated in the fortified city by moving the East Rampart.All the buildings in the southern part of the street were destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728.