Kronprinsessegade 8


Kronprinsessegade 8, also known as Revisorenes Hus after its current owner, FSR - Danish Auditors´Danish Auditors Association, is a listed, Neoclassical property overlooking Rosenborg Castle Garden in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was listed on the Danish register of protected buildings and places in 1845.

History

Kronprinsessegade 8 waas built by Johan Martin Quist for Jeremias Henriques and Jacob Henriques in 1803-1804.
The composer Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse lived in an apartment in the building from 1815. In September 1817, a 14-year-old Hans Christian Andersen came to the apartment to pick up the first portaion of a monrtly allowance. It was the result of a fund-raising that Weyse had initiated at a dinner party held by Giuseppe Siboni the previous evening. Weyse moved to a new apartment in the building at No. 36. He was very fond of the street and it has been said about him the "he never ventured out of Kronprinsessegade and the time".

The later politician Christian Albrecht Bluhme, then a defence judge advocate in the Second Jutland Infantry Regiment, was a resident in the building in 1821. Frederik Bülow, then a lieutenant in the Royal Danish Army, lived in the building in 1821–22. The zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer lived in the building in 1832–1833. Vice admiral Jost van Dockum had his last home in the building in 1834.
Isak Hendel Ruben operated a textile printing business in the building before constructing a large new textile factory at Rolighedsvej in Frederiksberg in 1857.
Bloch & Andresen, Nordisk Tekstil, a textile company, was based in the building in 1950.

Architecture

The building consists of four storeys over a cellar and is six bays wide. The facade features a frieze between the first and second floor. A gateway in the right side of the building opens to a courtyard. A six-bay side wing projects from the rear side of the building and connects to a six bay rear wing at the bottom of the courtyard.

Today

FSR - Danish Auditors is based in the building. Varmings Tegnestue has refurbished the building. The warehouse in the courtyard was adapted for use as canteen.

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