Overgaden Oven Vandet 50

Overgaden Oven Vandet 50 is a residential property in the Christianshavn neighborhood of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is one of three properties along Christianshavn Canal that were built by anchor smith Hans Caspersen and are now all known as the Hans Caspersen House, the others being Overgaden Neden Vandet 39 and Overgaden Neden Vandet 33. The building was completed in 1769 and listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945.

Hans Caspersen House
Hans Caspersens Gård
General information
LocationCopenhagen
CountryDenmark
Coordinates55°40′25.72″N 12°35′37.1″E
Completed1769

History

The site was in 1689 owned by ropemaker Verner Wesenduncks (Wesendonch). His house was located in Dronningensgade on the other side of the block. The lot was in 1718 acquired by timber merchant Niels Flesborg (c. 1695-1720s) and used as a lumberyard. The lumberyard was in 1720 ceded to timber merchant and captain Hans Brechvoldt who had just married Flesborg 's daughter Martha. Brechvoldt and a brother-in-law died in 1744, probably from drowning, leaving Martha Nielsdatter Flesborg Brechtwoldt as the owner of the lumberyard. In 1749, she sold the proiperty to brewer Peder Nielsen Trye Friis. He sold the two lots on auction in 1755. Part of the lumberyard (matr. 177B) was acquired by merchant and shipowner John Brown. The rest (matr. 177A, No. 50) was sold to dyer Andreas Hegelund.[1]

Hegelund's house is in a fire insurance policy from January 1756 described as a two-storey, timber framed building on a brick cellar. A staircase in oak timber connected it to a side wing with kitchen and workshop. A combined wagonhouse and stable with room for three horses was situated at the bottom of the property towards Dronningensgade. Andreas Hegelund's widow Elisabeth Sophie married Gottfried August Neukammer.

The property was on 25 June 1765 purchased by anchor smith Hans Caspersen, wgoise property at Overgaden Neden Vandet 39 had recently been destroyed by fire. He demolished the old buildings and constructed a new four-storey apartment building on the land in the 1760s.1765-69.[2]

Hans Caspersen sold Overgaden Oven Vandet 50 to Oluf Munch but seems to have kept an apartment in the building. He lived there until 1782 when he returned to his other property at Overgaden Neden Vandet 39.

Overgaden Oven Vandet 50 was in 1778 sold to a Scottish ship captain, Arthur Bishop. It was in 1811 acquired by Lauritz Nicolai Hvidt. He kept it until 1852.

The jurist and author Hans Egede Schack (1820-1859 was a resident in the building in 1845. He was a member of Folketinget in 1850-1853 and would later serve as secretary for the prime ministers P. G. Bang (1797-1861), C. G. Andræ (1812-1893) andC. C. Hall (1812-1888). He published the novel Fantasterne in December 1857.[3]

Architecture

The building consists of four storeys over a raised cellar and is topped by a Mansard roof. It is seven bays wide and his a three-bay central projection. The gateway in the left-hand side of the building is topped by a fanlight and the Keystone features a relief of an ancher and an inscription.

Cultural references

The building is used as a location in the 1953 feature film Kriminalsagen Tove Andersen.[4]

List of owners
  • 1689 matr. 97 Verner Weendunchs Dronningensgade
  • 1689 matr. 98 Bertel Stywer's indhegnede plads
  • 1718-1720s Niels Flesborg,
  • 1720-1733 Hans Brechtwoldt
  • 1733-1749 Martha Nielsdatter Flesborg Brechtwoldt
  • 1749-1750 Peter Nielsen Trye Friis
  • 1755-1788 John Brown
  • 1755-1765 Andreas Hegelund and Elisabeth Sophie/Gottfried August Neuhammer
  • 1765-1776 Hans Caspersen
  • 1776-1778 Oluf Munch
  • 1778-1811 Arthur Bishop, enken Alison gift anden gang med Alexander Malcom
  • 1811 Agent Joachim Israel Behrend
  • 1811-1852 Lauritz Nicolai Hvidt
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References
  1. Ida Haugsted. "Ankersmed Hans Caspersen som bygherre 1750-92" (in Danish). Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  2. "Sag: Hans Caspersens Gård" (in Danish). Kulturstyrelsen. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  3. "Overgaden Oven Vandet 50-50a". indenforvoldene.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  4. "Overgaden Oven Vandet 50 - 52, København". danskefilm.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 25 May 2020.
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