Nyhavn 11

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Nyhavn 11
Nyhavn 11 (Copenhagen).jpg
Nyhavn 31 seen from the other side of the canal
General information
LocationCopenhagen. Denmark
CountryDenmark
Coordinates55°40′50.24″N 12°35′19.44″E / 55.6806222°N 12.5887333°E / 55.6806222; 12.5887333Coordinates: 55°40′50.24″N 12°35′19.44″E / 55.6806222°N 12.5887333°E / 55.6806222; 12.5887333
Construction started1735
Completed1736

Nyhavn 11 is a listed property overlooking the Nyhavn canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark.

History[]

17th and 18th centuries[]

Ludvig Ferdinand Rømer

The property was by 1689 as No. 6 in St. Ann's East Quarter (Sankt Annæ Øster Kvarter) owned by Pder Andersen Hegelund. A two-storey building was built at the site in about 1700. One of its first owners was Jacob Severin. He had married rich and was in 1733 granted a full monopoly on trade with Greenland where he founded the town Jacobshavn (literally "Port Jacob").

In 1754, Ludvig Ferdinand Römer established a sugar refinery in the building. He had been governor of the Danish Gold Coast. His wife was Anna Cathrine Widderkamp and the couple had 14 children.[1]

The property and associated sugar refinery was upon Romer's death in 1776 passed to his son Friederich Christian Rømer (1755-1827). At the time of the 1787 census, Rømer resided in the building with his wife Christiana Dorothea, their five children (aged one to six) and the wife's sister Dorothea Maria Lorch. The household comprised a total of 28 people. The other members of the household were either working at Rømer's sugar refinery or servants.[2]

19th century[]

At the time of the 1801 census, Rømer and his wife resided in the building with their two youngest children (aged 12 and 18), the 26-year-old theologian Leonhardt Callisen (who would later marry Rømer's daughter Dorothea Maria), the office clerk the clerk (fuldmægtig) Anthon Moxoll,[3] a number of sugar refinery workers,[4][5][6] [7] [8][9] a coachman, a servant, a caretaker, a maid and two female cooks (one of them responsible for catering to the employees).[10]

In the new cadastre of 1806, the property was again listed as No. 6. It was by then still owned by Frederik Christian Rømer and he had by then also oacquired the adjacent building at No 5 (now Nyhavn 11).

The property was later acquired by the naval officer Donner, Christian H artvig Leonhard Donner (1780-1841). He continued the sugar refinery. At the time of the 1734 census, he resided on the two lower floors with his wife Anna von Bülow and his 20-year-old niece Ida von Brockdorff.[11] The sugar refinery was managed by sigar master Johann Adam Garven. He resided in the side wing with seven sugar refinery workers, a shopkeeper and, two male servants and two maids.[12]

The property was shortly thereafter acquired by grocer (urtekræmmer) Hendrik Pohlman Harboe.[13] In 1835-1836, he heightened it with two extra floors.

At the time of the 1840 census, No. 6 was home to a total of 34 people. Harboe resided on the first floor with his wife Mariane Harboe, the wife's sister Nikoline Johansen, a male servant, a maid, sugar master Johan Thomsen and three more employees. Benedicte Ulfsparre Rothe, widow of Admiral Carl Adolph Rothe, resided on the second floor with four unmarried children (aged 17 to29), a male servant and a maid. Regine Frederikke Nagel, widow of merchant (grosserer) Grosser Peter Nagel, resided on the third floor with her three youngest children (aged 11 to 18), a maid and two lodgers )a jurist and a first lieutenant). Erik Svitzer 81792-1866), a professor of medicine at the , resided on the ground floor with a housekeeper, a coachman, the coachman's six-year-old son, a lodger and a maid.[14]

From 1842 to 1849, the actor Christian Niemann Rosenkilde and his family resided in one of the apartments. His daughter, Julie, later known by her married name Julie Sødring, became one of the leading Danish actresses of her time. She had her debut at the Royal Danish Theatre in the play Den Sorte Dronning (The Black Queen) in 1843. Many artist frequented the home, including the Swedish singer Jenny Lind. Another well-known actor, Poul Reumert, have also lived in the building. He grew up at Nyhavn 63.[15]

20th century[]

The building was listed by the Danish Heritage Agency in the Danish national registry of protected buildings in 1932.

Building[]

Nyhavn 11
The figure above the gateway

The building is four storeys tall and five bays wide. It has a red tile roof with four dormers. Above the gate is a figure of a sugar-baker holding a sugarloaf in one hand and a sugar tin in the other. The figure dates from Römer's sugar refinery. It served as a means of identifications at a time when house numbers had not yet been introduced. Many other houses along the Nyhavn quay feature similar signs.

An appendix with staircase on the rear side of the building dates from 1875. The courtyard was refurbished in 1963 to design by the landscape architect Knud Lund-Sørensen.

Today[]

The leading Danish lamp manufacturer Louis Poulsen has been headquartered in the building since 1908.

References[]

  1. ^ "Nyhavn Copenhagen" (in Danish). rejsefortaelling.dk. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  2. ^ "Folketælling - 1787 - Friederich Christian Rømer". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Frederik Christian Rømer". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Ernst W. Piil". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Christen Jonsen". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Peter Peters&colon. Asarup ?". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Poul Leis". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Peter Olsen". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  9. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Georg Frederik Morhorst". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Hartvig Malgo". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  11. ^ "Folketælling - 1834 - Niels Grønbek Rademacher". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  12. ^ "Folketælling - 1834 - Sophie Catharine Naumann". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  13. ^ "Folketælling - 1834 - Christian Donner". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  14. ^ "Folketælling - 1840 - Nyhavn No. 6". Danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  15. ^ "Nyhavn 11". indenforvoldene.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 18 May 2018.

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