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Marienborg - Billardsalon
Marienborg, a mid 18th-century country house perched on a small hilltop on the northern shore of Bagsværd Lake, Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, north of downtown Copenhagen, has served as the official residence of Denmark's prime minister since 1962. It is frequently used for governmental conferences, summits and other official purposes, including the prime minister's new year speech. Unlike the residences of many other heads of government and state (e.g. the White House, 10 Downing Street, La Moncloa and Élysée Palace), Marienborg does not serve as the government headquarters or contain the office of the prime minister. The Prime Minister's Office is instead located in Christiansborg on Slotsholmen in downtown Copenhagen. Marienborg was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1964. History 18th century In the 18th century, the region north of Copenhagen became popular for its scenic views and opportunities for recreation with the surrounding meado ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marienborg Manor
Marienborg Manor is an estate on the Danish island of Møn. The estate has a large park with public access. The main building was demolished in 1984. The estate, covering , contains the thatched tenant farm of Egeløkke. Manorial records exist from 1769, though earlier records may exist in the Møn Cavalry District records. History In 1668, Frederik III gave Captain Jacob Nielsen several estates on Møn, including the Nygård farm, as a reward for his having captured a Swedish ship and brought it back to Copenhagen with its cargo and Danish prisoners of war. Nielsen apparently only kept it for a short period. Later, a manor was built there as the residence of Samuel Christoph von Plessen, who in 1685 was appointed governor of Møn. Plessen used bricks from Stege's town wall for the building. When he was relieved of his position of governor in 1697, the house was totally or partially demolished. Casper Gottlob Moltke, who was governor from 1703 to 1728, tidied up the estate and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophienholm
Sophienholm is a former manor house and exhibition venue located north on the shore of Lake Bagsværd in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The main building was originally a country home built in 1769 by Johan Theodor Holmskiold who named the house after his wife Sophie Holmskjold. Its next owner, Constantin Brun, had it completely rebuilt at the turn of the 19th century into its present appearance, and it became a lively cultural venue during the Danish Golden Age when his wife, the writer and salonist Friederike Brun, played host to many prominent Danish and foreign cultural figures of the time. History Early history Sophienholm was built from 1767 to 1768 as a country retreat for Johan Theodor Holmskiold (1731–1793). The country house was in a classicist style and the garden transformed into English landscape style. Originally a medical doctor and naturalist, Holmskiold had just begun a successful career at the Royal Court in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean De Coninck
Jean de Coninck (1744–1807) was a Dutch-Danish merchant and ship-owner. In 1785, he joined his elder brother, Frédéric de Coninck, as partner in the Copenhagen-based trading house Coninck & Reiersen. He purchased the country house Marienborg in 1803 and was from 1806 a co-owner of the Royal Danish Silk Manufactury in Bredgade. He served as Russian consul in Copenhagen. Biography Jean de Coninck was born in the Netherlands, the son of Jean de C. (1692–1774) and Susanne Esther de Rapin de Thoyras (1710–1785). His first wife, Theodora van Schellebeck (1755–1783), died just 23 years old in Holland. de Coninck moved to Copenhagen in 1784. On 7 January 1785, he was married to Christiane Cathrine Reiersen (1755–1789), a younger sister of Niels Lunde Reiersen. In early February, he replaced Reiersen as partner of Coninck & Reiersen. de Coninck's wife gave birth to daughter Anna Elisabeth in 1786 and son Jean Frederik in 1788. She died in labour with their third child in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish West Indies
The Danish West Indies ( da, Dansk Vestindien) or Danish Antilles or Danish Virgin Islands were a Danish colonization of the Americas, Danish colony in the Caribbean, consisting of the islands of Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saint Thomas with ; Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, Saint John ( da, St. Jan) with ; and Saint Croix with . The islands have belonged to the United States since they were Treaty of the Danish West Indies, purchased in 1917. Water Island, U.S. Virgin Islands, Water Island was part of the Danish West Indies until 1905, when the Danish state sold it to the East Asiatic Company, a private shipping company. The Danish West India Company, Danish West India-Guinea Company annexed uninhabited St. Thomas in 1672; annexed St. John in 1718; and bought St. Croix from France (King Louis XIV) on June 28, 1733. When the Danish West India-Guinea Company went bankruptcy, bankrupt in 1754, Frederik V of Denmark, King Frederik V of Denmark–Norway assumed direct cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stevns Municipality
Stevns is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in Region Sjælland on the southeast coast of the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 22,782 (1 January 2019). The municipality covers most of Stevns Peninsula. The third largest town and the site of its municipal council is the town of Hårlev. On 1 January 2007 Stevns municipality, as the result of ''Kommunalreformen'' ("The Municipal Reform" of 2007), merged with Vallø municipality to form an enlarged Stevns municipality. Locations The ten largest locations in the municipality are: The town of Store Heddinge The town of Store Heddinge came into existence during the 13th century, and Saint Katharina Church (''Sct. Katharina kirke'') is also from that time. The town received privileged status as a merchant town in 1441. A Latin preparatory school was founded in the town in 1620, but was closed down in 1739. Politics Municipal council Stev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gjorslev
Gjorslev is a cruciform medieval castle located 17 km south-east of Køge, on the Stevns Peninsula, Stevns Municipality, some forty kilometres south of Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally owned by the Bishop of Roskilde, it is considered one of the most well-preserved examples of Gothic secular architecture in Denmark. History Early history Gjorslev was built in about 1400 by Peder Jensen Lodehat, Bishop of Roskilde. It remained in the possession of the Roskilde bishops until the Reformation which led to its confiscation in 1537. It was sold in 1540 and was then in the possession of changing owners until 1678 when it came under the Crown once again. Lindencrone Om 1843, Christen Lindencrone purchased the estate. He had made a fortune as a supercargo on ships owned by the Danish Asiatic Company. In 1756, he was raised to the peerage under the name Lindencrone. He also constructed the Lindencrone Mansion at the corner of Sankt Annæ Plads and Bredgade in Copenhagen. Limeston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lindencrone Mansion
The Lindencrone Mansion (Danish language, Danish: Lindencrones Palæ) is a historic building located on the corner of Bredgade and Sankt Annæ Plads in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Completed in 1753, it is one of many town mansions which were built for wealthy citizens in the district Frederiksstaden in the years after its foundation in the middle of the 18th century. History Lindencrone family The Lindencrone Mansion was one of the earliest town mansions that was completed in Copenhagen's new Frederiksstaden neighbourhood. It was built in 1751-53 as a new city residence for Christen Lindencrone, Christen Lintrup, supercargo in Danish East India Company, Danish Asia Company, who already owned Gjorslev, Gjorslev Manor on Stevns and was raised to the peerage under the name Lindencrone in 1756. The building was constructed by the master builder Christian Conradi to a design or concept by Niels Eigtved who had also created the masterplan for the new district. Court sculptor Jacob Fort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianshavn
Christianshavn (literally, "ingChristian's Harbour") is a neighbourhood in Copenhagen, Denmark. Part of the Indre By District, it is located on several artificial islands between the islands of Zealand and Amager and separated from the rest of the city centre by the Inner Harbour. It was founded in the early 17th century by Christian IV as part of his extension of the fortifications of Copenhagen. Originally, it was laid out as an independent privileged merchant's town with inspiration from Dutch cities but it was soon incorporated into Copenhagen proper. Dominated by canals, it is the part of Copenhagen with the most nautical atmosphere. For much of the 20th century a working-class neighbourhood, Christianshavn developed a bohemian reputation in the 1970s and it is now a fashionable, diverse and lively part of the city with its own distinctive personality. Businessmen, students, artists, hippies and traditional families with children live side by side. Administratively, Christi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Behagen House
The Behagen House is a Neoclassical townhouse located at Strandgade 26 in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918. History origins Two houses similar to the neighbouring Sigvart Grubbe House at No. 28 were built at the site by Sigvart Grubbe in 1626. One of the properties was listed as No. 19 in Copenhagen's first cadastre of 1689 and was at that time owned by one ''schoutbynacht'' Dreier. The other one was as No. 20 owned by soap manufacturer Peder Hansen. The old No. 10 was listed as No. 36 in the new cadastre of 1756 and was at that time owned by a widow named Hegelund. The old No 20 was as No. 37 owned by ''etatsråd'' Frederik Holmsted. Holmsted owned the property from 1739 to 1769. Behagen family In 1759, Gysbert Behagen, a wealthy merchant, acquired one of the two houses. In 1764, he obtained a royal licence to establish a sugar refinery in the yard. In 1768, Beh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gysbert Behagen
Gysbert Behagen (8 March 1725 – 17 December 1783) was a German-Danish merchant, ship owner and director of Danish Asia Company. His home at Strandgade 26 in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of Copenhagen is known as Behagen's House (Danish: Behagens Gård) after him. Biography Behagen was born in Hamburg, the son of wine merchant Anthony Behagen (1687-1727) and Petronelle Elisabeth Mestecker (1703-1778). His father died when he was two years old. His mother later moved to Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ... where she married the wealthy merchant Joost van Hemert in 1732. Behagen joined his step father's company. He married Elisabeth Gertrud Wasserfall on 9 April 1755 in the Reformed Church in Copenhagen. Career Behagen became an agent and a groce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fabritius
Michael Fabritius (2 May 1697 – 13 November 1746) was a Danish merchant, shipowner and shipbuilder. Early life and education Michael Fabritius was born in Copenhagen on 12 May 1697. His parents, wine merchant Herman Fabritius (1667-1729) and Elisabeth Marie Abbestée (1677-1752), were immigrants from Germany and belonged to the city's German Reformed congregation. Michael Fabritius was the elder brother of Just Fabritius. Career Fabritius was granted citizenship as a merchant in 1732. He was one of the first Danish merchants to send ships to China and was a co-founder of Det Kinesiske Societet. He was also active in Danish Asiatic Company. In 1735, he purchased the Grønnegård Harbour at the southern tip of Christianshavn. In 1738, he was one of the driving forces behind the foundation Kurantbanken and for a while served as its managing director. Together with Johann Fr. Wewer he was the founder of the Fabritius & Wewer trading house. Like the other major merchants of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Frederik Lindencrone
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