Admiralgården is a converted warehouse located at

Admiralgade Admiralgade is a street in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Nikolaj Plads in the north to Holmens Kanal in the south. History Admiralgade was created in the middle of the 16th century and was home to several residences for naval ...

17 in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built for the same company as the nearby

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10) and was originally used for storing tea. It was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the

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on 5 March 1945 and is now owned by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre and his two sons through the real estate company Metorion..

History

Site history, 16891805

The site was formerly made up of two smaller properties. The northern one was listed in Copenhagen's first

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of 1689 as No. 1762 in East Quarter and belonged to tailor Johan Christoffer at that time. The southern property was listed as No. 173 and belonged to ''magister'' Statius Koch. The two properties were listed in the new cadastre of 1756 as No. 214 (old No. 182) and No. 215 (old No. 183) in the East Quarterm both owned by baker Thomas Johansen Seyer. The property was prior to the 1787 acquired by baker Peder Jørgensen- He resided in the building with his wife Birgithe Elisabeth Jørgensen, their one-year-old son Christian, his brother Johan Henrich Henningsen, five bakers, a caretaker, a wet nurse and two maids.

Sundorph and the new building

The buildings on the site were destroyed uin the Copenhagen Fire of 1795, together with most of the other buildings in the area. The present warehouse on the site was constructed in 1797 for the widow Mette Christine Sundorph. She was the owner of Mette Christine sal. Sundorphs Enke & Co. ("Metta Christine late Sundorph's Widow & Co.), a company which she had taken over after her second husband's death in 1794. Its {{Sundorph House, premises at the corner of Ved Strabdeb and Voldhusgade had been destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795 and it therefore had to be operated from intermistic premises on Slotsholmen until the new

10 and the warehouse in Admiralgade were completed in 1797. Mette Christine Sundorph's property in Admiralgade was listed in the new cadastre of 1806 as No. 162 It was still owned by Sundorph at that time.

1840-1900

The property was initially listed as Admiralgade 3 when gouse numbering by street was introduced in 1859 as a supplement to the old cadastral numbers by quarter. In 1894, when the buildings in Admiralgade were numbered in the opposite direction, it was listed as Admiralgade 17.

20th century

The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the

on 5 March 1945. It was renovated under supervision of the architect Kay Kørbing (born 1915) in 1969-1970. It was acquired by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre in 1997 and then subject to another refurbishment.{{cite web, url=http://metorion.dk/DK/Info%20om%20ejendommene/Admiralgade%2017.aspx, title=Admiralgade 17, language=Danish, website=Metorion, accessdate=5 April 2017

Architecture

The four-storey warehouse has a central row of large openings with wooden shutters tipped by a tall

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with the remains of a

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. To the rear is a three-storey, one-bay side wing and a three-storey, three-bay warehouse which both date from some time between 1797 and 1806.

Today

The building is owned by Bent Fabricius-Bjerre and his two sons through the real estate company Metorion. It contains a mixture of offices and apartments.

References

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External links

Official website
{{Commons {{DEFAULTSORT:Admiralgarden Commercial buildings completed in 1797 Commercial buildings in Copenhagen Listed warehouses in Denmark Warehouses in Copenhagen