Gammel Strand 42

Gammel Strand 42 is a historic property overlooking Slotsholmens Kanal and Slotsholmen in Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945.

Gammel Strand 42
General information
LocationCopenhagen
CountryDenmark
Coordinates55°40′39.76″N 12°34′41.66″E
Completed1797
Renovated1855 (heightened); 1930 (wall dormer)

History

The old building

The previous building at the site was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. Agent Hans Holck (1726-1783), who created the first city directory for Copenhagen, gad been among the residents in around 1782.[1]

19th century
Advert for Lassen Hansen's grocer's shop

The current building (No. 42, formerly No. 11) was constructed by master builder Christopher Crane (1777-1841) in 1799-1800 for merchant Claus Saabye.[1] The surgeon Ludwig Lewin Jacobson was among the residents in 1816–18. Counter Admiral Lorentz Fjelderup Lassen lived in the building from 1834 and until his death in 1837. F.C. Bornemand (1810-1861). , a professor of law at the University of Copenhagen, was a resident from 1840 to 1843. The painters Harald Slott-Møller (1864-1937) and Agnes Slott-Møller lived in one of the apartments in the years around 1908.[1] The ground floor was in the late 19th century home to a grocer's shop, Lassen Hansens urtekramhandel.

20th century

The building was in 1900 acquired by Kristian Mikkelsen Vendsyssel. He had established his own fish wholesale business in Hjørring in 1887 but later moved the operation first to Frederikshavn and then in 1895 to Copenhagen. On 30 October 1898, together with Seattle-based Theodor Wilhelm Hansen (died 1916) and Frederikshavn-based Peder Morthensen Asp (died 1917), he had started a new venture, Vendsyssel Packing Co, which was involved in the salting of salmon on the American west coast for sale on the European markets. The company was in 1950 still based in the building.[2][3][4]

Architecture

The building consists of four storeys over a raised cellar and is four bays wide. The facade of the ground floor and cellar is dressed in a grey colour while the upper floors stand in undressed, red masonry. A side wing extends from the rear of building and connects to a rear wing at the bottom of a narrow courtyard.[5]

Today

The property was in 2012 purchased by a family trust created by Klaus Riskær Petersen9.[6]

References
  1. "Vestergade 33". indenforvoldene.com (in Danish). Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. "Vendsyssel Packing Co. A/S". coneliand.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  3. "Fiskerdrengens hus på Riskjærs hænder" (in Danish). Nordjyske. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  4. "K. M. Vendsyssel" (in Danish). Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  5. "Sag: Gammel Strand 42". Kulturstyrelsen (in Danish). Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  6. "Riskær køber millionejendom fra fængslet". Berlingske (in Danish). Retrieved 19 May 2020.
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