Ved Stranden 8 is a

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property located at the corner of

Ved Stranden Ved Stranden ( lit. "At the Beach") is a canal side public space and street which runs along a short section of the Zealand side of Slotsholmen Canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It begins at Holmens Kanal, opposite the Church of Holmen, and run ...

(No, 8) and

Boldhusgade Boldhusgade ( lit. "Ball House Street) is a short, cobbled street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Ved Stranden in the southwest to Admiralgade in the northeast from where it continues as Laksegade. History The street was ori ...

(No. 3), opposite

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, in central

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. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1932.

History

Before the fire of 1795

The property was in 1689 owned by tobacco-maker Johan Bramsted. It was in the 1720s acquired by porcelain merchant Peter Decker (1697-1727). His widow Cathrine Agatha Bredahl (1701-1778) kept the property after her husband's death at age 30 in 1728. Their daughter Hendrine Christine (1727-1762) was in 1747 married to the naval officer (1715-1794). The property was later purchased by court sculptor Johann Friedrich Hännel (1710-1755). He was originally from

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but had settled in Denmark in 1731. He married Elisabeth Manndorff (1728-1780), a daughter of basket-maker Carl from Lübeck Jacob Mandorff (1695-1755) and his wife Catrina, on 21 January 1845 in St. Peter's Church. They had the daughters Susanne Elisabeth (1754-) and Anne Maria (1756 – c. 1790). His widow was on 28 January 1762 for the second time married to his former employee

Johann Gottfried Grund Johann Gottfried Grund (27 April 1733 - 20 September 1796) was a German-Danish sculptor. He created the sculptures in Nordmandsdalen at Fredensborg Palace. The sculptures in Nordmandsdalen have been replaced by replicas while Grund's original wo ...

. Elisabeth Manndorff Grund died from "oinflamation" in 1780. Grund was at the time of the 1787 census still living in the house at Ved Stranden together with their two children and the daughter Susanne Elisabet from his wife's first marriage.

The current building

The building was like most of the other buildings in the area destroyed in the

Copenhagen Fire of 1795 The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 (''Københavns brandes 1795'') started on Friday, 5 June 1795, at or around 3 pm by the Navy's old base south east of Kongens Nytorv on Gammelholm, in the Navy's magazine for coal and timber, the so-called Dellehave ...

. The plot was subsequently acquired by goldsmith Christen Nielsen Lindbach (1738-1815). The current building at the site was constructed for him by the master builder

Philip Lange Frantz Philip Nicolai Lange (31 March 1756 – 28 March 1805) was a Danish architect and master mason. He made a significant contribution to the rebuilding of Copenhagen in the years after the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. Most of his buildings have bee ...

in 1796-1797. The historian statistician Frederik Thaarup (1766-1845) lived in the building in 1821. The architect

Gustav Friedrich Hetsch Gustav Friedrich (von) Hetsch (28 September 1788 – 7 September 1864) was a Danish architect. Biography Hetsch was born in Stuttgart, he was the son of Philipp Friedrich von Hetsch (1758–1838). He studied at the University of Tübingen and ...

was among the residents from 1823. The violinist and composer

Holger Simon Paulli Holger Simon Paulli (22 February 181023 December 1891) was a Danish conductor and composer. Paulli composed an opera, thirteen ballets, an overture, and pieces for violin and lieder. Biography Paulli was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a st ...

lived in the building in 1836–1837. Aug. Strøh's Vinhandel, a wine company, has also been based in the building. The company was founded on 1 October 1894 by Aug. Strøh (died 1912) and was from 1924 owned by Knud Jørgensen (1879-1939). His sons, Asger Jørgensen born. 1907) and Robert Jørgensen (born 1910), owned the company from 1939. The adjacent buildings in Ved Stranden were in the 1930s acquired by the Nordisk Genforsikring. They were in 1936-39 replaced with a new head office for the insurance company designed by the architect N. P. P. Gundstrup (1877-1949). Ved Stranden 8 was also acquired by the insurance company and integrated in their new head office. The entire complex was later taken over by the Ministry of Defence.

Architecture

The building consists of four floors over a high cellar. It has three bays towards Ved Stranden and nine bays towards Boldhusgade. The chamfered corner bay was a requirement under the new Copenhagen Building Act.

Today

The Ministry of Defence is now based in the building.

References

External links

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Kunstindeks Danmark ''Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon'' (Weilbach's Biographical Dictionary of Artists) is a Danish biographical dictionary of artists and architects. The current edition, which is also freely accessible online, contains the biographies of some 8,000 Dani ...

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