Kronprinsessegade Kronprinsessegade ( lit. "Crown Princess Street") is a street in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Noted for its fine Neoclassical houses, it extends from Gothersgade and runs along the southern boundary of Rosenborg Castle Garden, passing Sølvgade ...

36 is a Neoclassical property overlooking Rosenborg Castle Garden in central Copenhagen, Denmark. A plaque embedded in the wall between the first and second floor commemorates that the composer Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse lived in the building from 1825 to 1842.

History

Blom family

The site was part of a large piece of land acquired by Bloms Enke & Co. The property now known as Kronprinsessegade 36 was listed in the new

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of 1806 as No. 399 in St. Ann's West Quarter. A building had still not been constructed on the site when the firm was dissolved. The site was subsequently acquired by

Thomas Blom Thomas Blom (18 November 1777 - 21 November 1841) was a Denmark, Danish master mason, architect and developer who contributed to the rebuilding of Copenhagen in the years after the Copenhagen Fire of 1795 and the Battle of Copenhagen (1807), Battl ...

. The present building on the site was built by him in 1820–1825. Blom had until then lived with his family at

Kronprinsessegade 40 Kronprinsessegade 40 is a listed property located at the corner of Kronprinsessegade and Dronningens Tværgade in central Copenhagen, Denmark. History Early history The building was constructed by Thomas Blom (1777-1841) in 1811. Blom and hi ...

. They moved to one of the apartments in the new building as soon as it was completed in 1825. Blom's son Julius Blom would later become a prominent master carpenter. Thomas Blom resided on the ground floor at the time of the 1934 census. Christen Petersen Estrup, a groce (''høker''), resided in the basement with his wife Christine Petersen Estrup and their 10-year-old daughter. Thomas Blom lived on the ground floor of the building at the 1840 census. He lived there with his wife J. C. Carstensen, their five children (aged 20 to 26), two male servants and two maids. Charlotte Elisabeth Colsmann, widow of professor Johannes Colsmann (1771-1830), resided on the first floor with two sons (aged 22 and 26), 43-year-old Dicte Fredericke Preussen (teacher), one male servant and one maid. Lars Peter Larsen, a man with unknown profession, resided in the basement with his wife Christiane Larsen (née Brodersen), their five children (aged seven to 17), his mother-inlaw Ane Petersen /widow) and one maid. The second floor apartment was let out to the composer and organist Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse. He had lived at

Kronprinsessegade 8 Kronprinsessegade 8, also known as Revisorenes Hus (The Auditors House) after its current owner, FSR - Danish Auditors´Danish Auditors Association, is a listed, Neoclassical property overlooking Rosenborg Castle Garden in central Copenhagen, ...

since 1915. He lived there with his housekeeper Karen and changing students and lodgers. Weuse lived in the apartment until his death in 1842. Thomas Blom lived in the building until his death in 1841. It was sold by his widow in 1845. The mathematician and politician

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lived in the building from 1843 to 1846.

Sponneck

The new owner of the building was Count Wilhelm Sponneck, a jurist. His property was home to four households at the 1845 census. The owner, who was a member (''deputeret'') of Generaltoldkammeret and

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, resided on the first floor with his wife Antoinette Siegfriede Sponneck (née Lozow), their twosons, his brother Carl Waldemar Greve Sponneck, a male servantand a chamber maid. Christine Stampe (née Dalgas), resided on the second flor with a male servant and a maid. Catherine Carstensen, for some reason listed as "sister-in-law" (probably of Johan Arnold Hieronymus Carstensen), resided on the ground floor with Gustav Hugh Carstensen, one male servant and two maids. Ane Maria Dohne resided in the basement with six children and a maid. Sponneck was appointed to Minister of Financial Affairs in 1849. Agent and landowner Nicolaj Nyholm and his wife Mathilde Cathrine Erasmine Nyholm (née Ammitzbøll) resided in the ground-floor apartment at the 1850 census. Sponneck lived in the building from 1845 to 1863. Rgeir daughter Mathilde Nikoline Nyholm (1834-1894) was later married to Carl Valdemar Sponneck.

Later history

Carl Emil Fenger (1814-1884), who served as Minister of Financial Affairs from May 1870 tto March 1872, lived in the building from 1870.

Architecture

The building consists of three storeys over a high cellar. The roof is a

Mansard roof A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...

with a two-bay wall dormer flanked by two dormers. A

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supported by

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s runs under the roof. A side wing extends from the rear side of the building. A four-storey warehouse is located at the bottom of the courtyard.

Gallery

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References

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1825 establishments in Denmark Commemorative plaques in Copenhagen Listed residential buildings in Copenhagen Residential buildings completed in 1825 Thomas Blom buildings