Bredgade 38

Bredgade 38 was built in 1801–02 by carpenter and master builder Andreas Hallander.[1] The property was in the new cadastre of 1795 listed as No. 175 and had by then been acquired by Hans Nicolai Arctander.

Captain in the Royal Danish Navy Carl Wilhelm Jessen was a resident in the building from 1804 to 1808. He would later serve as governor of the Danish West Indies. Hans Wilhelm v. Warnstedt, who had previously served as director of the Royal Danish Theatre, resided in the building in 1812-1817). The poet Christian Winther was among the residents in 1828 and again in 1830.

At the time of the 1845 census, No. 175 was home to a total of 23 people.[2] Ferdinand Bauditz (1778-1849), a military officer with rank of Major-General, resided with his wife and four unmarried children in one of the apartments.[3] Carl Ewald (1789-1866), the king's Adjutant general, resided with his wife and three unmarried daughters (aged 19-32) in another apartment.[4] The naval officer Christian Zahrtmann (da) resided was his wife and three daughters the third apartment.[5] They lived there from 1839 to 1853. Andreas Felumb (1806-), a master shoemaker, resided with his wife and four children in the basement.[6]

The painter Frederik Christian Lund resided in the building in the mid 1850s and the lawyer and politician Carl Christian Vilhelm Liebe resided there in 1861-63,

The teacher Ludvig Trier (1837-1911) lived in an apartment on the ground floor until 1874.. He prepared Denmark's first female medical doctor Nielsine Nielsen for her later studies. In her diary, she describes her first meeting with him in the apartment on 22 June 1874 at 5 A:N.:"

This meeting became of crucial significance to my study and my life—his mother had just passed away but he still occupied the comfortable apartment they had shared in Bredgade. It was in his small study facing the courtyard that he resided. A small room full of books with school desk and wax-cloth sofa, small-barred windows and greenish glass with dusty cacti—and an anteroom full of book shelves.

The property was acquired before 1882 by the businessman Adolf Seligmann.[7] His company A. Seligmann & Co. was still based in the building in 1910.[8]

In 1928, Bredgade 38 was acquired by supreme court attorney H.H. Bruun who from then on ran his law firm from the premises. It was from 1944 continued by his son Jonas Bruun under his own name.[9] It moved after merging with Hjejle Gersted Mogensen under the name Bruun & Hjejle in 2009.[10]

Bredgade 38 consists of a three-storey building towards the street, a six -bay perpendicular side wing which extends from the rear side of the building and a three-bay rear wing. The building towards the street is give bays wide. The outer windows on the first and second floor are accentuated by sandstone frames and the ones on the first floor are topped by triangular pediments. There is a frieze between the three central windows on the first and second floor.[7]

• Drawings in the Danish National Art Library
• Christian Zartmann
• Apartment