Nyhavn 11

No. 6 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of St. Ann's East Quarter, 1757.

The property was listed as No. 6 in St. Ann's East Quarter (Sankt Annæ Øster Kvarter) in Copenhagen's first cadastre of 1689. It was at that time owned by Pder Andersen Hegelund. A two-storey building was built at the site in about 1700.

One of its first owners was Jacob Severin. He had married rich. After attending school to the age of 15, he married at age 22 a woman over forty years his senior, Maren Nielsdatter,[1] the widow of the merchant Segud Langwagen. Using her capital, Severin took over her former husband's monopoly over the Icelandic trade with Denmark and built a thriving company specialized on Iceland, Finnmark and whaling off Spitzbergen. As a member of Copenhagen's 32 Men, he had the right to an audience before the king.

Ludvig Ferdinand Rømer

In 1754, Ludvig Ferdinand Römer established a sugar refinery in the building. He had been governor of the Danish Gold Coast. His wife was Anna Cathrine Widderkamp and the couple had 14 children.[2]

The property and associated sugar refinery was upon Romer's death in 1776 passed to his son Friederich Christian Rømer (1755-1827). At the time of the 1787 census, Rømer resided in the building with his wife Christiana Dorothea, their five children (aged one to six) and the wife's sister Dorothea Maria Lorch. The household comprised a total of 28 people. The other members of the household were either working at Rømer's sugar refinery or servants.[3]

At the time of the 1801 census, Rømer and his wife resided in the building with their two youngest children (aged 12 and 18), the 26-year-old theologian Leonhardt Callisen (who would later marry Rømer's daughter Dorothea Maria), the office clerk (fuldmægtig) Anthon Moxoll,[4] a number of sugar refinery workers,[5][6][7] [8] [9][10] a coachman, a servant, a caretaker, a maid and two female cooks (one of them responsible for catering to the employees).[11]

The property was again listed as No. 6 on the new cadastre of 1806. It was at that time still owned by Frederik Christian Rømer. He had also oacquired the adjacent building at No 5 (now Nyhavn 9).

The property was later acquired by the naval officer Christian H artvig Leonhard Donner (1780-1841). He continued the sugar refinery. His property was home to four households at the time of the1834 census. Donner resided on the two lower floors with his wife Anna von Bülow and his 20-year-old niece Ida von Brockdorff.[12] The sugar refinery was managed by sigar master Johann Adam Garven. He resided in the side wing with seven sugar refinery workers, a shopkeeper and, two male servants and two maids.[13]

The property was shortly thereafter acquired by grocer (urtekræmmer) Hendrik Pohlman Harboe.[14] In 1835–1836, he heightened it with two extra floors.

Harboe's property was home to a total of 34 residents at the 1840 census. Harboe resided on the first floor with his wife Mariane Harboe, the wife's sister Nikoline Johansen, a male servant, a maid, sugar master Johan Thomsen and three more employees. Benedicte Ulfsparre Rothe, widow of Admiral Carl Adolph Rothe, resided on the second floor with four unmarried children (aged 17 to29), a male servant and a maid. Regine Frederikke Nagel, widow of merchant (grosserer) Grosser Peter Nagel, resided on the third floor with her three youngest children (aged 11 to 18), a maid and two lodgers )a jurist and a first lieutenant). Erik Svitzer 81792–1866), a professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen, resided on the ground floor with a housekeeper, a coachman, the coachman's six-year-old son, a lodger and a maid.[15]

The property was home to 33 residents in six households in 1845. Diederik Wilhelm Dons, a merchant, resided in one of the apartments with his wife Julie Dons (née Stalberg) and one maid.[16] H.C.Bondrop, a grocer (urtekræmmer) and lieutenant in the Civilian Infantry Corps, resided in another apartment with his wife Gitt Bondrop (née Haeseus), their 10-year-old son Niels Hermann Bondrop, an employee in Bondryp's grocery business, two male servants, two maids and a concierge.[17] Peter Johan Petersen, another merchant, resided in a third apartment with his wife Louise Marie Petersen, their 18-year-old daughter Emilie Christine Marie Muus and one maid.[18] Christian Niemann Rosenkilde, an actor at the Royal Danish Theatre, resided in a fourt apartment with his wife M.Rosenkilde, their four children (aged 21 to 29), two male servants, one maid and one lodger.[19] Johan Thomsen, the sugar master from the 1840 census, was now residing in the side wing with his wife Lovise Thomsen (née Melny).[20] Peter Jensen, a lamp polisher at the Royal Danish Theatre, resided in the building with his wife Ane Jensen født Christiansen and their three children (aged two to eight).[21]

Christian Niemann Rosenkilde resided in the building from 1842 to 1849. One of his daughters, Julie, later known by her married name Julie Sødring, became one of the leading Danish actresses of her time. She had her debut at the Royal Danish Theatre in the play Den Sorte Dronning (The Black Queen) in 1843. Many artist frequented the home, including the Swedish singer Jenny Lind. Julie Rosenkilde married the engineer Christopher Sødring, owner of the mineral water company Sødring & Co.

Christopher Hansen Sødring

Diederik Wilhelm Dons was still the owner of the property in 1850. He and his wife were still residing in the ground floor aoartment with two maids.[22] Hans Christian Bondrop was still residing in the first floor apartment with his wife, one son (aged 15) and six employees.[23] Johan Frederik Carrøe (1817-1893), a businessman (grosserer=, resided on the second floor with his wife Caroline Marie Thiesen (1820–1865) and one maid.[24] Christopher and Julie Sødring resided in the other second floor apartment with the lodger Adolpph Strunk and one maid.[25] Johan Frederik Carøe resided in another apartment with his wife, their two children (aged five and 10), the widow Vilhelmine Wissing, three male servants and two maids.[26]

The property was home to 43 residents in eight households at the 1860 census. Charlotte Betzy Ryge (née Anthon), widow of actor Johan Christian Rtge, resided in the building with her two daughters (aged 21 and 29) and two maids. Carl Ferdinand Dishicke, a businessman )grosserer), resided on the same floor with his wife Marie Dichicke, two male servants and one maid.[27] Henrik Georg Worm, another businessman (grosserer), resided in another apartment with his wife Anthony Worm.[28] Carl August Borgen (1815-1870), a sugar manufacturer and insurance agent, resided in the building with his wife Emilie August Borgen, their sic children (aged two to 16) and two maids.[29] Hermann David Lassen, a merchant, resided in the building with his apprentice Jacob Henrich Willenberg.[30] Rasmus Peter Sommer, a 46-year-old man, resided in the building with his wife Ellen Margrethe Sommer and their two children (aged one and five).[31] Christian Hansen, a 31-year-old man, resided in the building with his wife Marie Pedersen, their five-year-old daughter and his 66-year-old aunt Anne Olsen.[32] Berthe Jensen (née Larsen), a widow cleaning lady, was the last resident of the building.[33]

Nyhavn 11 in 1954.

The lamp manufacturer Louis Poulsen was based in the building from 1908 to 2005. The building was listed by the Danish Heritage Agency in the Danish national registry of protected buildings in 1932. The actor Poul Reumert, was for many years a nong the residents of the building.. He grew up at Nyhavn 63.[34]