Erichsens Gård is a timber-framed building located at

Rønne Rønne () is the largest town on the Denmark, Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. It has a population of 13,675 (1 January 2025). It was a municipality in its own right from 1970 until 2002, when Bornholm was a Bornholm County, county (D ...

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, Denmark. It is now part of the

Bornholm Museum Bornholm Museum is a cultural history museum located in Rønne, Denmark. The museum collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits artifacts in order to raise awareness of Bornholm's cultural heritage. History The museum's association was first f ...

and is

's best preserved commoner's house.

History

Erichsens Gård was built in 1806 and expanded in the 1830s and 1840s. Surveyor and architect

Henning Pedersen Henning is a surname, as well as a given name. Etymology of the surname The surname originated in East Prussia. It is derived from "Henneke", which is a diminutive of Johannes. The Low German suffix ''-ing'' means "son of". The name is indigenou ...

, who designed Rønne Præstegård and the old city hall on Rønne's ''Store Torv'', lived there between 1816 and 1837. Erichsens Gård is named after the next owner, Thomas Erichsen (1806-1886). He moved to

in 1832 and bought this house in 1838 and married Michelle Kathrine Westh (1812- 1890) in the same year. They had 12 children, one of whom, Vilhelmine Charlotte Erichsen (1852–1935), became the muse of artists

Kristian Zahrtmann Peder Henrik Kristian Zahrtmann, known as Kristian Zahrtmann, (31 March 1843 – 22 June 1917) was a Danish painter. He was a part of the Danish artistic generation in the late 19th century, along with Peder Severin Krøyer and Theodor Philipsen, ...

(1843-1917) and Holger Drachmann (1846-1908). Zahrtmann painted her when she was fourteen years old. This painting is part of the Bornholms Kunstmuseum's collection. In 1871 Vilhemine married Holger Drachmann in Gentofte church. Erichsens Gård still houses much of the memories from these artists as well as an exhibition about the Erichsen family. Erichsens Gård became protected in 1919. It was sold in 1950 by Elena Erichsen to the

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Holger Drachmann Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (9 October 1846 – 14 January 1908) was a Danish poet, dramatist and painter. He was a member of the Skagen Painters, Skagen artistic colony and became a figure of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough Movem ...

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References

Other Sources

* Knudsen, Ann Vibeke (1990) ''Erichsens Gård i Rønne'' - Publisher: Bornholms Museum - Rønne - - Retrieved: 22. August 2011

External links

Bornholm Museum website
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