Kronprinsessegade 8

Kronprinsessegade 8
General information
Location Copenhagen
Country Denmark
Coordinates 55°40′59.33″N 12°34′52.75″E / 55.6831472°N 12.5813194°E / 55.6831472; 12.5813194Coordinates: 55°40′59.33″N 12°34′52.75″E / 55.6831472°N 12.5813194°E / 55.6831472; 12.5813194
Completed 1804
Design and construction
Architect Johan Martin Quist

Kronprinsessegade 8, also known as Revisorenes Hus (The Auditors House) after its current owner, FSR - Danish Auditors´Danish Auditors Association, is a listed, Neoclassical property overlooking Rosenborg Castle Garden in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was listed on the Danish register of protected buildings and places in 1845.

History

Kronprinsessegade 8 waas built by Johan Martin Quist for Jeremias Henriques and Jacob Henriques in 1803-1804 .[1]

The composer Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse lived in an apartment in the building from 1815. In September 1817, a 14-year-old Hans Christian Andersen came to the apartment to pick up the first portaion of a monrtly allowance. It was the result of a fund-raising that that Weyse had initiated at a dinner party held by Giuseppe Siboni the previous evening.[1] Weyse moved to a new apartment in the building at No. 36. He was very fond of the street and it has been said about him the "he never ventured out of Kronprinsessegade and 6/8 time".[2]

Kronprinsessegade 8 seen on J. H. Ruben's ceremonial target from the Copenhagen Shooting Society

The later politician Christian Albrecht Bluhme, then a defence judge advocate (auditør) in the Second Jutland Infantry Regiment, was a resident in the building in 1821. Frederik Bülow, then a lieutenant in the Royal Danish Army, lived in the building in 1821-22. The zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer lived in the building in 1832-1833. Vice admiral Jost van Dockum (1753-1834) had his last home in the building in 1834.[1]

Isak Hendel Ruben operated a textile printing business in the building before constructing a large new textile factory at Rolighedsvej in Frederiksberg in 1857.

Architecture

The gateway with a peek view of the ware house in the courtyard

The building consists of four storeys over a celler and is six bays wide. The facade features a frieze between the first and second floor. A gateway in the right side of the building opens to a courtyard. A six-bay side wing projects from the rear side of the building and connects to a six bay rear wing at the bottom of the courtyard.

Today

FSR - Danish Auditors is based in the building. Varmings Tegnestue has refurbished the building. The warehouse in the courtyard was adapted for use as canteen.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Badstuestræde 18". indenforvoldene.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  2. ↑ "Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse". Det Kongelige Bibliotek (in Danish). Retrieved 4 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Badstuestræde 18" (in Danish). Varmings Tegnestue. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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