Fru Petersens Café (Mrs. Petersen's Café) is an establishment located along the main road (Almindingenvej) about west of
Østermarie
Østermarie is a village on the Danish island of Bornholm, west of Svaneke. Founded ca. 1880, its old church ('' Østermarie Church''), now a ruin, dates back to the 12th century. ,
Bornholm
Bornholm () is a List of islands of Denmark, Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland.
Strategically located, Bornholm has been fought over for centuries. I ...
,
Denmark
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, established in 1993.
History
The building was designed by architect
Mathias Bidstrup
Mathias Andreas Bidstrup (25 March 1852 – 25 January 1929) was a Danish architect.
Biography
He was born in Rønne, Bornholm, the son of cobbler Jorgen Bernhard Bidstrup and Marie Hansine Sonne.
Mathias Bidstrup attended the Royal Danish ...
, completed in 1908 and used as a church school. The school was the most important of the four schools that belonged to Østermarie parish.
In the gable above the entrance, a relief was placed depicting the Virgin Mary, the parish's patron saint.
The school was closed in 1967, and was then put into use as a training school for disabled children. From the academic year 1979/1980 the building was used as a special school for mentally handicapped adults.
In 1993 the building was sold and converted into a café, opened in 1997. The rooms are furnished as they were in the old days, as if time has stood still. In the living room, coffee and cake is now served. In 2010, the café came into new ownership but is as it was before.
File:Fru Petersens Café-sign.JPG, Sign
File:Fru Petersens Café-2.JPG, Fru Petersens Café
File:Fru Petersens Café-Gavlstenen-1908.JPG, Gable stones
File:Fru Petersens Café-skolebænken.JPG, School bench from the church school
File:Fru Petersens Café-køkken.JPG, The kitchen corner in Fru Petersens Café
References
External links
Official website
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Buildings and structures in Bornholm
Restaurants in Denmark
Commercial buildings completed in 1908
1997 establishments in Denmark