Gustmeyer House

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Gustmeyer House
Gustmeyers Gård
Gustmeyer House (Ved Stranden 14).jpg
The principal facade facing Ved Stranden
General information
Architectural styleNeoclassical
LocationCopenhagen, Denmark
CountryDenmark
Current tenantsMcKinsey & Company
Construction started1796
Completed1797
ClientFrederik Ludolf Gustmeyer
OwnerATP Ejendomme
Design and construction
ArchitectJohan Martin Quist

The Gustmeyer House (Danish: Gustmeyers Gård) is a historic property on Ved Stranden, opposite Christiansborg Palace on Slotsholmen, in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built in 1797 to a Neoclassical design by Johan Martin Quist. The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr was born in the building. McKinsey & Company is now based in the building.

History[]

18th century[]

No. 249 and No. 243 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of the East Quarter, 1757.

The site was in the late 17th century made up of two individual properties- One of them was as No.207 in the city's East Quarter (Øster Kvarter) owned by Henrik Lydersen . The other one was as No. 212 owned by acessor and mayor Christen Andersen.The larger property towards the canal was by 1756 as No. 249 owned by merchant Carl Hieronimus Gustmeyer. The smaller property in Admiralgade was by 1756 as No, 243 owned by cooper Christen Larsen but later acquired by Gustmeyer.

The property was after Carl Hieronimus Gustmeyer's death in 1756 passed down to his son Friedrich.[1] The building was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. The current building at the site was completed the following year to design by Johan Martin Quist. Quist was one of a handful of master builders who obtained a near monopoly on the rebuilding of the city after the fire.[2]

19th century[]

The house painted by Sally Henriques

Friderich Ludwig Gustmeyer was at the time of the 1801 census residing in the building with his wife Dorthea Gustmeyer, their daughter Anne Gustmeyer, their son Carl Gustmeyer and the clerk Bengt Julius Lingblom. [3] The property was at the time of the 1801 census home to an additional 25 people, including Justitiarius at Hof- og Stadsretten Carl Wigandt Falbe and Mosses Wessely Junior,[4]

The property was in the new cadastre of 1805 listed as No. 154. Gustmeyer lost the family fortune during the economic crisis that resulted from Denmark's involvement in the Napoleonic Wars.

A later owner of the property was Nicolai Abraham Holten. He sold it when he was appointed as director of Øresund Custom House in Helsingør in 1839.

Advertisement for A. Anckers Manufactur Varelager

The property was later acquired by the textile merchant Anders Ancher who ran his textile business from the premises under the name A. Anckers Manufactur Varelager. The property was at the time of the 1845 census home to a total of 12 people. Anders Ancker , a textile wholesale merchant, resided with his son, three employees, three apprentices and three servants on the ground floor.[5] Ane Sophie Brown (1768-1855), widow of vice admiral Peter Caspar Wessel Brown (1755-1840), was residing with Eleonora Christine Harboeand two maids on the first floor. Frederik Augs. Clementzen was also living there with them.[6] Balthasar Münter (1797-1867), provost of , resided on the second floor with his wife, two daughters and three maids.[7] Ole Christian Borgen, a merchant, resided with his wife, their five children, his mother-in-law, an employee and two maids on the third floor.[8]

Anders Ancher was at the time of the 1850 census residing on the ground floor. Anne Sophie Wessel - Brown and Eleonora Christine Harboe had been joined by Harboe's sister Elisabeth Charlotte Harboe. Anna Margrethe Lange, daughter of the owner of Rødkilde Manor on Funen, was also residing there with them. Jens Frederik August Clementsen, personal secretary for prince Frederik Ferdinand, was also a resident on the first floor. The second floor was still occupied by Balthazer Münter and his family.

Former foreign minister Ludvig Nicolaus von Scheele lived in the building from 1868 until 1873. Sally Friedlænders Papirhandel og Kortforlag, a yStationery business and publisher of art prints and postcards, was from circa 1870 also based in the building. The firm had in 1860 been taken over by Ditmer Firmaet in partnership with the namesake founder's son Vilhelm Friedlænder. It was based at the site until 1903.[9]

The Adler family, c. 1890

The property was in 1873 acquired by the businessman and politician David B. Adler who resided at No. 14 until 1878.[2]

One of Adler's daughters, Ellen (1860-1930), married the physician and physiology professor Christian Bohr (1855-1911) in 1881. Their two sons, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr and the mathematician Harald Bohr, were both born in the building.[2]

20th century[]

The building photographed in the early 1900s by

The house was owned by King George I of Greece from 1903 until his assassination in 1913. He was a son of Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Kassel.[2]

The building later served as headquarters for Kjøbenhavns Brandforsikring.[10]

Architecture[]

Admiralgade 24

The Neoclassical building is one of Copenhagen's first examples of a bourgeois residence with free-standing columns.

The property also includes two lateral wings which connect the main wing to a rear wing facing Admiralgade which served as warehouse for Gustmeyer's business. There is also a one-storey building in the central courtyard which dates from the same time as the rest of the complex.

Today[]

The entire property was refurbished by royal building inspector David Bretton-Meyer for the consultancy McKinsey & Company in 1985-1986. The building is today owned by ATP Properties.

References[]

  1. ^ "Carl Hieronimus Gustmeyer" (in Danish). Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Ved Stranden 14/Admiralgade 24" (in Danish). indenforvoldene.dk. Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2012-09-15.
  3. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 -Friderich Ludwig Gustmeyer". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Jeppe Pedersen". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Folketælling - 1845 - Anders Ancker". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Folketælling - 1845 - Ane Sophie Brown". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  7. ^ "Folketælling - 1845 - Batltasar Münter". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Folketælling - 1845 - Ole Christian Borgen". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Sally Friedlænders Papirhandel og Kortforlag" (in Danish). piaper.dk. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Kjøbenhavns Brandforsikring". coneliand.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 15 March 2018.

Further reading[]

  • Hansen, Mikkel Kristian: Emilius Bærentzen og hans jødiske kundekreds. Rambam - Tidsskrift for 'disk kunst og historie.

External links[]

Coordinates: 55°40′39″N 12°34′53″E / 55.6775°N 12.5814°E / 55.6775; 12.5814

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