Sundorph House

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Sundorph House
Sundorphs Gård
Ved Stranden 10.jpg
The building seen from Boldhusgade
General information
Architectural styleNeoclassical
LocationCopenhagen, Denmark
Coordinates55°40′38.37″N 12°34′53.63″E / 55.6773250°N 12.5815639°E / 55.6773250; 12.5815639Coordinates: 55°40′38.37″N 12°34′53.63″E / 55.6773250°N 12.5815639°E / 55.6773250; 12.5815639
Construction started1796
Completed1797

The Sundorph House is a Neoclassical property at Ved Stranden 10 in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. The property has since the late 17th century been owned by members of the Sundorph family. The current building was constructed for tea merchant Mette Christine Sundorph after the previous building at the site had been destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. It was listed in the in 1918.

History[]

18th century[]

No. 247 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of the East Quarter, 1757.

The site was in 1689 part of a larger property (then No. 211) owned by merchant (urtekræmmer) Thomas Torsmide's widow. In 1756, it was as No. 247 owned by Kommerceråd Jacob Olsen's widow.

Sundorph's House as it appeared before the Great Fire of 1795.

Hans Pay, who was born in Drammen in 1738, established as a porcelain seller in Copenhagen 1768. He was licensed as a grocer (urtekræmmer) in 1771 and 1776 but died in 1777. His widow, Mette Christine née Collstrup (1752-1834) took the operations of the company over but it was ceded to her new husband Søren Christian Sundorph (1743-1794) when she married on 21 December 1778. His birth name was Søren Christensen but he had assumed the name Sundorph after his home town Nørre Sundby in the north of Jutland.[1]

When he died in 1794, Mette Christine Sundorph once again took over the operations of the company whose name was changed to Mette Christine sal. Sundorphs Enke & Co. ("Metta Christine late Sundorph's Widow & Co.).

The wooden sheds in front of the destroyed Christiansborg Palace

The Sundorph House was together with most of the other buildings in the area destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. The company was then run from a wooden shed on Slotsholmen until the house at Ved Stranden had been rebuilt to a new design in 1797.

The name of the company was changed to Sundorphs Enke & søn (Sundorph's Widown & Son") when her elder of her two sonsson, Christian Severin Sundorph (f1780–1826), joined it in 1812. The younger son, Hans Pay Sundorph (1790–1860), joined the company in 1816 and became its sole owner with his brothers death in 1826. The company then took the name H. P. Sundorph. It was later passed on to his son, Georg Christian Sundorph (1826—1875), who had joined it in 1856. His widow, Anna Margrethe Sundorph (née v. Stöcken) ran it after his death. Her son, Hans Pay Sundorph, became a partner in the company in 1884 and its sole owner in 1894. It had by then become a tea wholesaler.

19th century[]

Hans Pay Sundorph

The property was at the time of the 1801 census home to a total of 18 people. Sundorph lived in the house with her six children, the associate Peder Jensen and seven more employees.[2] Maria Sophie Fenger, a 28-year-old widow, was living on the property with her three-year-old daughter and a maid.[3] The property was in the new cadastre of 1806 listed as No. 156.

The property was at the time of the 1845 census home to a total of 16 people. Hans Pay Sundorph and his wife Else Christine Marie Klinting resided with their two sons, two employees and three servants on the two lower floors.[4] Ferdin. Cons. Schumacher resided with his wife, three children and two maids on the second floor. [5]

The house in the 1900s

The Danish Chamber of Commerce (Grosserer-Societetet) was based in the building prior to their acquisition of the Exchange Building (Børsen) on the other side of the canal in 1857.[6] The building was listed in 1918.[7]

Architecture[]

The house is built in the Baroque style and consists of three floors, Mansard roof and a cellar. The facade on Boldhusgade is nine bays long while the facade fronting the canal is just three bays long. The roof is clad with black-glazed tiles. A three-bay wall dormer faces Boldhusgade and a single-bay wall dormer faces Ved Stranden. The four-storey side wing is five bays long.

Gallery[]

  • Sundorph House aerial.jpg
  • Sundorphs Hus (København) 05.jpg

Today[]

The building is now owned by Caroline Sundorph Pontoppidan. The ground floor is home to a combined wine shop, wine bar and lunch restaurant in the ground floor.[8]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "H. P. SUNDORPH". coneliand.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 -Mette Kirstine Sundorph". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Folketælling - 1801 - Maria Sophie Fenger". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Folketælling - 1845 - Hans Pay Sundorph". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Folketælling - 1845 - Ferdin. Cons. Schumacher". nishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Ved Stranden 10". indenforvoldene.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  7. ^ "Sag: Sundorphs Hus". Kulturstyrelsen (in Danish). Retrieved 27 October 2016.
  8. ^ "SaVed Stranden 10". aok.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 27 October 2016.

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