Rhode House
| Rhose House | |
|---|---|
| Den Rhodeske Gård | |
 The Rhode House | |
| General information | |
| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Coordinates | 55°40′24.16″N 12°35′20.46″E / 55.6733778°N 12.5890167°ECoordinates: 55°40′24.16″N 12°35′20.46″E / 55.6733778°N 12.5890167°E |
| Construction started | 1640 |
| Completed | 1794 |
The Those House (Danish: Den Rhodeske Gård) is a historic property located at the corner of Strandgade (No. 14) and Torvegade in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of central Copenhagen, Denmark.
History
The property was part of a large lot at present-day No. 8–14. No. 14 was sold off to statholder Frantz Rantzow in 1630.In 1632, he was appointed to Steward of the Realm but died later that same year. It is believed that the house was built in about 1640 for Nahman Hiort, one of the first Councilmen of the new market town which had been incorporated on 8 June 1639. Nahman Hiort owned both No. 14 and No. 12 from 1642 to 1653. The next owner was a baker Jens Sørensen. whose widow owned the property until 1668. Strandgade 12 was sold off in 1702.[1]
A wine merchant, Mathias Rohde, acquired the building in 1781. He expanded the house with two extra floors in 1785 (some sources say 1794) and operated a tavern in the celler.[2]
The writer Andreas Nicolai de Saint-Aubain, who wrote under the pseudonum Carl Bernhard, was born in the building on 18 November 1798. He was a cousin of Johan Ludvig Heiberg. Pastor Nicolai G. Blædel, a co-founder of Indre Mission in Copenhagen, lived in the building in 1845-1846. The naval officer Edouard Suenson lived in the building in the beginning of the 1850s.[2]
Architecture
The building consists of four floors and a celler. Eight bays front Strandgade while six bays front Torvegade. The two uppermost floors and two of the bays along Strandgade date from the 1794 expansion.[3] The facade is red-washed with sandstone details. The portal is decorated with bunches of grapes.
References
- ↑ "Strandgade 14" (PDF) (in Danish). Christianshavn Local History Archives. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- 1 2 "Strandgade 36-36a-d/Wildersgade 51" (in Danish). indenforvoldene.dk. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
- ↑ "Sag: Den Rhodeske Gård" (in Danish). Kulturstyrelsen. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
External links
- Niels Brocks Gård at indenforvoldene.dk