Kompagnistræde 9

Kompagnistræde 9
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General information
Location	Copenhagen
Country	Denmark
Coordinates	55°40′38.78″N 12°34′34.61″E / 55.6774389°N 12.5762806°E / 55.6774389; 12.5762806Coordinates: 55°40′38.78″N 12°34′34.61″E / 55.6774389°N 12.5762806°E / 55.6774389; 12.5762806
Completed	1796-97

Kompagnistræde 9 is a property situated on Strædet, between Naboløs and Knabrostræde, roughly opposite Badstuestræde, in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was like most of the other buildings in the area constructed as part of the rebuilding of the city following the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. It was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945.

History[]

18th century[]

No. 53 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Snaren's Quarter, 1757.

The property was in 1689 as No. 56 in Snaren's Quarter owned by Henrik Schrøder. By 1756, it was as No. 53 owned by goldsmith Andreas Jacob Rudolph.^[1]

At the time of the 1787 census, No. 53 was owned by Hans Christian Knudsen, archivist of the Danish Chancery. He was living on the site with his wife Benedicta Sophia Frich. two sons, a foster daughter, and three maids.^[2] Yje elder of the two sons was the civil servant  [da]. The property was also home to two more households. Isack Ludvig Dems, nookkeeper for a merchant named Cramer, resided in another dwelling with his wife Maria Elisabeth, their three children (aged 1 to 5) and two maids. Niels Gerløv, a cavalrist in the Holstein Regiment, resided in a third dwelling with his wife Ellen Kirstine and their four children (aged 6 to 19). ^[3]

Hans Christian Knudsen and his wife would later (1801 census) rent an apartment in master baker Peder Loi's property on the other side of the street (now Kompagnistræde 10.

The building was together with most of the other buildings in the area destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. The current building on the site was built in 1796–97 by plasterer and master mason Carl Claus Jennerich.

19th century[]

The property was at the time of the 1801 census home to a total of 20 people distributed on four households. One of them consisted of the plasterer Carl Jennerich, his apprentice Friderich Lund and two lodgers.^[4] Another other household consisted of beer vendor (øltapper) Niels Lund, his wife, their one-year-old son Gabriel Lund and two lodgers.^[5] The third household consisted of the grocer Rosine Nathan, her three children (aged 8 to 16), the maid Lovise Sonberg and the lodger Jol Philip.^[6] The fourth household consisted of the tailor Andreas Brenstrup and his wife Marie Larsen, their six-year-old granddaughter Andrine Brenstrup. the 13-year-old tailor's apprentice Johan Peter and the maid Gunild Andersdatter.^[7]

The property was in the new cadastre of 1806 again listed as No. 56. It was by then owned by N. Lauritzen & Hvidt. The basement was converted into a shop space in 1937 and the same was done to the ground floor in 1846.^[8]

Samuel Joseph Levin

Birgitte Levin, née Heymann

The property was at the time of the 1840 census home to a total of 18 people. Fridrich Wulff Heilbuth, a merchant, resided on the second floor with his wife Bolette née Larsen, their eight children (aged 5 to 25), the theology student Niels Schaugaard and the maid Birthe Larsdatter. The residents of the first floor were beer vendor (øltapper) Jens Erichsen, jis lodger Hans Ahrentzen (joiner), the grocer Samuel Joseph Levin and his wife Birgitte née Heiman, watchmaker Dorthe Magdalene Behren.^[9] Samuel and Birgitte Levin had only lived in the apartment on the first floor since 1839. They celebrated their gold wedding in the apartment 30 October 1840. Birgitte Levin died on 16 January 1851 and Samuel Levin moved shortly thereafter to M. E. Ruben's property at Løvstræde 12.^[10]

The building fronting the street was at the time of the 1860 census home to just nine people. Jens Christian Lund, a 33-year-old former master baker, resided in one of the apartments with Henriette Christine née Bonsen, his illegitimate daughter Ana Magrethe Lund and the maid Johanne Sophie Hansen. Edvard Ferdinand Løser, a master plumberm resided in the other apartment with his wife Marie Løser née Fegneschou, their widowed daughter-in-law Josephine Løser Hapff and her two-year-old daughter Edvard Ferdinand Løser and the maid Christine Hansen.^[11]

20th century[]

M. Siegler – Københavns Metalvare-Fabrik

København's Metaltraadvarefabrik & Fortinneri, a manufacturer of metal goods founded on 2.sept. 1870 by William Siegler (1841,-1890), was for many years based in the building. It was later continued by the founder's sister Marie Siegler (f836,-1918) and later by V. A. T. Siegler and C. de Blanck. V. A. T. Siegler aleft the firm in 1919 and it was from then on continued with C. de Blanck (18853-1949) as the sole owner. It was upon his death continued by his daughter and son Grethe and Edvard de Blanck. The firm was based in the building until at least the 1950s.^[12]

H. Mortensen's Eftf., E. Møller, a combined watch shop and furniture retailer, was from 1937 also based in the building. The firm was founded by Geltzer oandStilhof in 1876 and was originally based at Gammel Strand 32, it was taken over by H. Mortensen (f850-1911). In November 1911, it was taken over by E. Møller (1864-). It was based at Kompagnistræde 9 until at least the 1950s.^[12]

Søe-Jensen & Co. has also operated a shop in the basement.^[13]

Architecture[]

Kompagnistræde 9 is constructed in brick with three storeys over a walk-out basement and is six bays wide with slightly recessed outer bays. The plastered facade is below a white belt course sand coloured on the ground floor and yellow with green painted windows below a modillioned cornice on the upper floors. The facade was originally finished with shadow joints on the ground floor, a hood mould supported by corbels above the basement entrance, a recessed band with rosette decorations above the ground floor, a Greek key friezeabove the four central windows and accented windows in the outer bays on the first floor. The current solution with a plastered facade dates from 1866. The pitched roof is clad with red tiles. The three dormer windows towards the street date from 1846. A perpendicular wing with a monopitched red tile roof extends from the rear side of the building along one side of a small courtyard. The facades of both wings towards the yard are plastered and painted yellow.^[8]

Today[]

The property was as of 2007 owned by Woodlands I APS. Kompa’ 9, a coffee shop, is based on the ground floor of the building.

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