Nyhavn 6
Nyhavn 6 is a Neoclassical building situated on the quiet southern side of the Nyhavn canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1950. Composer Carl Nielsen and sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen had their first home together in the garret in the 1890s.
History
Early history
The site was originally part of Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve's large property at the corner of Kongens Nytorv and Nyhavn. In Copenhagen's first cadastre from 1689 it was listed as No. 54 in St. Ann's East Quarter. The property was later ceded to dowager queen Charlotte Amalie. A narrow strip of land along the canal, from Charlottenborg to Møntgade, was used for the construction of a row of very small, identical houses for low-ranking officials at the dowager queen's court. The houses were given numbers from 3 to 21.House No. 5 was listed in the new cadastre of 1756 as No. 277 in St. Ann's East Quarter.
Jacob Christensen and the new building
In 1770, it was decided to sell the houses at auction. The aim was to have them replaced by taller buildings that matched the houses on the other side of the canal and were more suitable for a location next to Kongens Nytorv.Already before the auction took place, by royal deed of 7 January 1771, No. 277 was sold for 292 rigsdaler and 48 skilling to distiller Jacob Christensen. The present building on the site was constructed for him in 1774–76.
Jacob Christensen was the father of bookseller, writer and publisher Kristen Kristensen. He is best known for publishing the popular weekly magazine Politibennen.
18001880
The property was listed in the new cadastre of 1806 as No. 273 in the Eastern Quarter. It belonged to distiller Niels Møller at that time.The naval officer and painter Emil Normann resided in one of the apartments in the building in the mid-1830s. He had just returned to Copenhagen after being stationed at Christiansø. He had now been transferred to service on the guardship Møn in Øresund. Normann was a student of C. W. Rckersberg. in 1834, he and Rckersberg sailed around Zealand on the maiden voyage of the Dronning Marie. Normann and his family left Nyhavn No. 273 in January 1838 after being appointed as enrolment officer in Tönning, Schleswig.
1880 census
The property was home to 52 residents in nine households at the 1880 census. Charles Chr Theodor Falkenberg, a retailer, resided on the ground floor with his wife Lovisa Dorothea Falkenberg, their five children and one maid. Hans Petersen, a haulier, resided on the first floor with his wife Ane Petersen and their three children. The son Peter Gans Petersen was a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, located less than a hundred metres away at Charlottenborg. Carl Vilhelm Auener, a typographer, resided on the second floor with his wife Marie Kirstine Auener, two daughters, typographer Holger Cark Edvard Auener and the latter's two sons. Maren Jensen, an unmarried woman with a pension, resided on the third floor with six lodgers. Svend Olsen, a barkeeper, resided in the basement with his wife Julie Olsen, their two sons and one maid. Morten Jørgensen, a favnsætter, resided on the ground floor of the cross wing with his wife Ulrika Jørgensen, their two children and the 17-year-old lithographer's apprentice Jems Albert Andersen. Peter Andersen, another favnsætter, resided on the same floor with his wife Karen Marie Andersen. Christiane Louise Rasmussen, a laundry woman, resided on the first floor of the cross wing with two daughters, a son, a daughter-in-law, a maid and a lodger. Adam Sinjen, an engineer, resided on the second floor of the cross wing with his wife Inger Sinjen, their two daughters and two elderly women.Later history
The composer Carl Nielsen and sculptor Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen resided in the fourth-floor apartment from 1891 to 1896.The architect Nils Fagerholt undertook a comprehensive renovation of the building in 1992. The renovation received a diploma from Copenhagen Municipality in 1993.