Zinn House

Zinn House
Zinns Gård
General information
Location Copenhagen
Country Denmark
Coordinates 55°40′46.82″N 12°34′35.98″E / 55.6796722°N 12.5766611°E / 55.6796722; 12.5766611Coordinates: 55°40′46.82″N 12°34′35.98″E / 55.6796722°N 12.5766611°E / 55.6796722; 12.5766611
Completed 1751
Renovated 1812 (heightened)
Client Hinrich Ladiges

The Zinn House (Danish: Zinnske Gård), locacted at Kvæsthusgade 3, is a historic townhouse around the corner from the Nyhavn Canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes its name after the Zinn family, a wealthy family of merchants that owned it for more than 150 years. The composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, who was married to Emma Sophie Amalie Zinn, a grand daughter of Johann Ludvig Zinn, lived on the second floor for more than 70 years in the period 1829–1900. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1959.

History

The Zinn family's music room

The property was built over two storeys in 1751 for the merchant Oluf Blach (1694–1767). He had made a fortune on North Atlantic Trade and would later serve as managing director of the General Trading Company.

The building was later acquired by another wealthy merchant, Johann Ludvig Zinn, who came to Denmark to work for Fabritius & Wewer in 1757 and established his own trading hose in 1765. His daughter, Sophie Dorthea Zinn, has described everyday life in the building in her memoirs Grandma' Condma's Confessions (Grandmamas Bekjendelser). It is believed that the Zinn House was the first place in Denmark that the La Marseillaise was sung.[1] It happened during a dinner for a delegation of French business partners on 20 January 1794 where Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier were among the guests. Sophie Zinn persuaded him to sing the song, although "revolutionary songs" were highly controversial in Denmark at the time. Duveyrier sent her the score and lyrics the following day.[2] Zinn was fond of music, and his home often played host to soirées.

J.P.E. Hartmann in his study

Zinn's two sons, Carl Ludvig Zinn (1777–1808) and Johan Friedrich Zinn (1779–1838), took on the family's trading company after his death in 1802. Johann Friederich Zinn became the sole owner of the company when his elder brother died in 1808. He heightened the building in Kvæsthusgade with one floor in 1812. The company was later passed on to Johan Friedrich Zinn's son Ludvig Maximilian Zinn.

The before the alterations in 1907

Johan Friedrich Zinn's daughter, Emma Sophie Amalie, married the composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann. The couple lived on the second floor. He served as organist at the nearby Garrison Church from 1724 to 1843. Hartmann stayed in the apartment after his wife's death and lived there until his own death in 1909.

The journalist Jens Giødwad, editor of the magazine Fædrelandet, was a resident in the building from 1870 to 1887.[3] The artist Johan Rohde lived in the building in 1903–04.[4]

The building was adapted in 1907. It was later in the century converted into offices.

Architecture

The building consists of three floors over a high cellar and is 12 bays wide. The two oriel windows on the third floor date from the renovation, possibly from the renovation in 1907. The original saddle roof was also replaced by a Mansard roof with eight dormers at this point.

Above the gateway is a plaque that commemorates that Hatmann lived in the building from 1829 to 1900. It also mentions that the Zinn family acquired the building in 1751 and that it was renovated in 1907.[5]

The complex also comprises a side wing along the north side of a central courtyard and a rear wing. The building fronting the street was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1959 but the side wing and rear are not listed on 6 April 1959.

Today

Thee building is now owned by Nordea Properties. They have converted the building from offices back to apartments with the assistance of Holsøe Arkitekter.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Vibæk, J. (1985). Reform og fallit: 1784–1830. Danmarks Historie (in Danish). Politikens Forl. p. Den yndige og velbegave- de Sofie Zinn, datter af indehaveren af Københavns næststørste handelshus, har i sine i nyere tid som »Grandmamas bekendelser« trykte memoirer levende fortalt om de franske jakobineres ophold i hovedstaden, om hvordan hun ved en fest for dem ganske ubevidst havde smykket sig med trikolorens farver, og ikke mindst om det indtryk en af dem gjorde på hende personlig ... have hørt Marseillerhymnen synge første gang således, for at kunne ... ISBN 978-87-567-3870-5. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Marseillaisen i Danmark og sangene i Napoleonstidens Danmark – Det Kongelige Bibliotek". kb.dk (in Danish). 28 February 2018. Archived from the original on 28 February 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  3. ↑ Stewart, J. (2016). Volume 7, Tome I: Kierkegaard and his Danish Contemporaries – Philosophy, Politics and Social Theory. Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources. Taylor & Francis. p. 36. ISBN 978-1-351-87439-7. Retrieved 2 March 2018. In 1870, Giødwad's sister, Birgitte, who had become a widow the previous year, moved from Jutland to Copenhagen to look after her bachelor brother, and the two moved into an apartment in Kvæsthusgade No. 3, where they took care of each other until Birgitte's death in 1887.
  4. ↑ "Kvæsthusgade 3". indenforvoldene.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  5. ↑ "Mindetavle for Hartmann". bibliotek.kk.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  6. ↑ "Kvæsthusgade 3 – boliger". Holsøe Arkitekter (in Danish). Retrieved 27 February 2018.

Further reading

  • Tönnesen, A. (1979). 233 danske borgerhuse (in Danish). Gyldendal. p. 45-. ISBN 978-87-01-54131-2. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  • "Fredede Bygninger Marts 2018" [Listed Buildings March 2018] (PDF) (in Danish). Danish Agency for Culture and Palaces. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 March 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
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