The Danneskiold-Laurvig Mansion is a historic building situated at Store Kongensgade 68 in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built in association with the Moltke's Mansion in

Bredgade Bredgade ( lit. "Broad Street") is one of the most prominent streets in Copenhagen, Denmark. Running in a straight line from Kongens Nytorv for just under one kilometre to the intersection of Esplanaden and Grønningen, it is one of the major stre ...

on the other side of the block.

History

Danneskiold-Laurvig family

Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig Ferdinand Anton Danneskiold-Laurvig (or Laurwigen; 1 July 1688 – 18 September 1754), count of Larvik, ''Gehejmekonferensråd'' ( Privy Councillor) and director of the Danish West India Company from 1723. Early life and education The son of Ul ...

was the son of

Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig (20 July 1638 – 17 April 1704) was Governor-general of Norway (''Stattholdere i Norge'') from 1664–1699. He was the leading general in Norway during the Scanian War, whose Norwegian leg is conventio ...

. When his father died in 1704 he inherited Gyldenløve's Little Mansion at the corner of

Dronningens Tværgade Dronningens Tværgade ( lit. "The Queen's Cross Street") is a street in central Copenhagen, Denmark, which runs from Bredgade to Rosenborg Castle Garden. The street originally formed a link between the King's Garden (Rosenborg Castle Gardens) and t ...

and

as well as the County of Laurvig in Norway. He purchased a number of smaller lots in Store Kongensgade in the 1720s. It is unclear when the building at Store Kongensgade was built. Most sources state that it was most likely built to a design by Johann Adam Soherr in circa 1745. Ida Haugsted states that it was more likely built in circa 1720-30 to designs by Johan Cornelius Krieger. Krieger was also responsible for adapting the Gyldenløbe Mansion. A garden connected the two buildings and the new building in Store Kongensgade was referred to as Danneskiold-Laurvig's backyard" (''Danneskiold-Laurvig's baggård''). The new building was also known as Jernmagasinet ("The Iron Store") since stoves and other products from Danneskiold-Laurvig's extensive Fritzøe ironworks in Laurvig in Norway were sold from its ground floor. Frederik Ludvig Danneskiold-Laurvig succeeded his father in 1754. He died without children in 1762 and all his holdings were therefore transferred to his brother Christian Conrad Danneskiold-Laurvig (1723-1783).

Frédéric de Coninck and Niels Lunde Reiersen

The building was on 3 April 1783 sold to the merchants Frédéric de Coninck and

Niels Lunde Reiersen Niels Lunde Reiersen (16 February 1742 - 20 July 1795) was a Danish government official, merchant, silk manufacturer, landowner and philanthropist. He was the owner of the Royal Danish Silk Manufactury in Copenhagen (1775-1796) as well as a foun ...

for 46,000 rigsdaler. The building was home to 18 residents in three households at the 1787 census. Bookkeeper Thomas Christopher Radigend (76 yrs.) resided in the ground-floor apartment with his second wife Anne (72 yrs.), his sister's unmarried daughter Dorthea Helena (64 yrs.) and two maids. Counter Admiral Andreas Georg Herman Schultz (1718-1798) and his wife Anne Margrethe True (1737-1825) lived in the large first-floor apartment with the 18-year-old girl Charlotte Lindemann (1767-1837), one male servant and two maids. The 40-year-old clerk Jørn Bøttger and his 28-year-old wife Christiane resided in the more humble second-floor apartment with their three children, a 27-year-old maid and the property's caretaker Lars Larsen.

Zinn

Reiersen sold his share of the building complex in Bredgade-Store Kongensgade to Frédéric de Coninck in 1789. Later that same year Frédéric de Coninck sold the Danneskiold-Laurvig Mansion to wine merchant Johan Ludwig Friederich Zinn. He was a nephew of

Johann Ludvig Zinn Johann Ludvig Zinn (14 September 1734 – 3 February 1802) was a German-Danish merchant who founded a trading house in Copenhagen in 1765 and died as one of the wealthiest men in the city. Zinn lived in the Zinn House at Kvæsthusgade 3 in Copenha ...

with whom he stayed in the

Zinn House The Zinn House ( da, Zinnske Gård), located at Kvæsthusgade 3, is a historic townhouse around the corner from the Nyhavn Canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes its name after the Johann Ludvig Zinn, Zinn family, a wealthy family of merch ...

at the time of the 1787 census. Zinn adapted the building. His alterations included a conversion of the former shop premises into ab extra ground-floor apartment.

Changing owners, 18101829

Zinn ended up returning to Neuendorff in Germany. In 1810, he sold his property in Store Kongensgade to the wholesale merchants David Amsel Meyer and Meyer Seligman Trier. In 1811, they sold it to the heirs of stamhuset

Giesegaard Giesegaard is a manor house and estate located in Ringsted Municipality in Denmark. The estate is owned by Michael Brockenhuus-Schack and has been owned by members of the Schack/Brockenhuus-Schack family since 1736. The oldest part of the main buil ...

Knud Schack Bille (1773-1821). In 1816, it was acquired by the English grocers Alexander Watt & Gordon (based Vestergade Matr. 21). They also purchased the country house Neptunus in Tårbæk.

Joseph Owen, 18291864

In 1829, Watt & Gordon sold the property to Joseph Owen (1789-1862). In 1825, he had joined Ryberg & Co. Owen's property was home to four households at the 1834 census. Owen resided in the first-floor apartment with his wife Susannah Christine von Pahlen (1794-1884), their seven children, (aged two to 17), two clerks and six servants. Frederik August Esbensen (1802-), a clerk in Rentekammeret, resided in one of the grou nd-floor apartments with his wife Anna Christine, their little son and two maids. Robert Kierm a wholesale merchant (''grosserer''), resided in the other ground-floor apartment with his housekeeper Anne Jensen. Jean Frederik de Coninck, another wholesale merchant and Belgian consul (son of

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 ...

and Christiane Reiersen), resided in the second-floor apartment with his wife Marie, their five children and three servants.

Later history

The property was later acquired by master carpenter Thorvald Jacob Schmock (1839-1896). He resided at

H. C. Ørsteds vej H. C. Ørsteds Vej is a street in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It runs from Gammel Kongevej in the south to Åboulevard on the border with Nørrebro in the north, linking Alhambravej in the south with Griffenfeldsgade in the ...

7 and did thus not himself live in the building. In 1882, he undertook a comprehensive adaption of the building complex. The main wing was heightened with one and a half storeys.

Architecture

The Rococo-style mansion is 11 bays wide and has a median risalit decorated with pilasters. It was expanded with an extra floor sometime in the 19th century. It was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1954.

List of owners

* (1704-1754)

* (1754-1762) Frederik Ludvig Danneskiold-Laurvig * (1762-1773) Creating Christian Conrad Danneskiold-Laurvig * (1783-1789) Frédéric de Coninck and

* (1789-1799) Frédéric de Coninck * (1799-1810) Johan Ludwig Friederich Zinn * (1810-1811) Meyer& Trier * (1811-1811) Moritz Meyer Leopold Breslau von Bressendorff * (1811-1816) Knud Bille Schack * (1816-1829) Watt & Gordon * (1829-1868) Joseph Owen

References

External links

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