Valkendorfsgade 36
Valkendorfsgade 36, situated opposite the House of the Holy Ghost, Copenhagen, House of the Holy Ghost, off the shopping street Strøget is a Baroque architecture, Baroque style townhouse in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was listed on the Listed buildings in Copenhagen Municipality#V, Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918. History Early history The site was in 1689 part of a larger property )No. 19= owned by Anna Rommel's heirs. The current building was constructed in 1838 for a bookkeeper named Rohde. It was later acquired by the painter Christian Peter Getreuer. He was appointed court painter in 1749. The property was from 1756 known as No. 138. Getreuer owned the building until his death in 1780. The property was in the new cadastre of 1806 listed as No. 134. It was by then owned by pastry cook (''konditor'') Horn's heirs. Jens Giødwad, a journalist and future editor of the newspaper ''Fædrelandet (1834-82), Fædrelandet'', was a resid ...
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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 area has 2,057,142 people. Copenhagen is on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait. The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road. Originally a Viking fishing village established in the 10th century in the vicinity of what is now Gammel Strand, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. Beginning in the 17th century, it consolidated its position as a regional centre of power with its institutions, defences, and armed forces. During the Renaissance the city served as the de facto capital of the Kalmar Union, being the seat of monarchy, governing the majority of the present day Nordic region in a personal union with Sweden and Norway ruled by the Danis ...
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