Sølvgade Kollegiet

The building at Georg Brandes Plads was constructed in 1771 as part of the Sølvgade military barracks — two and a half centuries before anyone thought to put a student café or a cinema room inside. In the early twentieth century, DSB, the Danish State Railways, took over the complex as their Copenhagen headquarters. The railway administration occupied it for decades before the building transitioned to student housing in 2016. DIS purchased the entire property in 2024, in what was the organisation's largest single housing acquisition.

The scale is striking: 463 individual studio apartments across five floors, housing around 500 DIS semester students and 200 local residents simultaneously — roughly 700 people in one building. Unlike every other DIS kollegium where you share a kitchen or a bathroom, here each studio comes with its own private kitchenette and private bathroom. The shared corridors and the central interior courtyard provide community without enforcing it; there is also a cinema, gym, and games room on-site. Rooms are the largest in the DIS portfolio (23–33 m² net) and qualify for government housing benefit.

The address is absurdly central. The King's Garden (Kongens Have) with Rosenborg Castle is across the road. The Botanical Garden and the National Gallery of Denmark are immediate neighbours. Nørreport — Copenhagen's busiest transit hub, with Metro lines M1, M2, M3, multiple S-tog lines, and dozens of bus routes — is walkable in under 10 minutes. Østerport station is in the other direction. For a subletter, this is a base from which virtually all of Copenhagen is reachable in under 20 minutes.

• Open to local students and DIS semester students. Rolling application; currently has vacancies (as of the DIS page crawled).
• Application portal: https://dis.dk/student-accommodation/dis-kollegiums/apply-for-a-kollegium-room/
• Also accessible via CBS Academic Housing for exchange students (per CBS website cross-reference).

• Max duration: 3–6 months
• Advance notice to DIS: minimum 2 months before sublet start
• Approval: Written DIS permission mandatory; apply via DIS tenant portal
• Subtenant must be: active student at a Danish institution with valid residence permit
• Rent cap: Cannot exceed original tenant's rent (note: at 7,500–8,000 DKK/month this is the highest base rent in the DIS portfolio)
• Frequency: Maximum once per tenancy
• Source: https://dis.dk/kollegier/nuvaerende-beboere/regler-for-fremleje-af-kollegievaerelse/