Rohde House
The Rhode House is a historic property located at the corner of Strandgade and Torvegade in the Christianshavn neighbourhood of central Copenhagen, Denmark.
History
Early history
The property was part of a large lot at present-day No. 8–14. No. 14 was sold off to statholder Frantz Rantzow in 1630. In 1632, he was appointed to Steward of the Realm but died later that same year. It is believed that the house was built in about 1640 for Nahman Hiort, one of the first councilmen of the new market town which had been incorporated on 8 June 1639. Nahman Hiort owned both No. 14 and No. 12 from 1642 to 1653. The next owner was baker Jens Sørensen, whose widow owned the property until 1668. The property was listed as No. 15 in Christianshavn Quarter in Copenhagen's first cadastre of 1689. It was at that time owned by brewer Anders Svendsen.Rohde family
Strandgade 12 was sold off in 1702. It was listed as No. 31 in the new cadastre of 1756. It was at that time owned by wine merchant Rasmus Rohde. In 1781, it was passed to his son Mathias Rohde. He expanded the house with two extra floors in 1785 and operated a tavern in the cellar.The property was home to 18 residents in two households at the 1787 census. Mathias Rode resided in the building with his wife Maria Catarina Kalder, their two daughters, a clerk, two wine merchant's apprentices, two maids and two caretakers. Giertrud Rode, Rohde's mother, resided in the building with her daughter Sissilia Margrete Rosted and nine-year-old granddaughter Giertrud Rosted, 12-year-old Mathilde Catarine Amorspil, 30-year-old Annette Dømene and two maids.
Jarsberg family
On 11 February 1798, Jacob Kaarsberg established a wine trading company in the building. The company was operated under the name Vinhuset af 1898.At the time of the 1801 census, No. 31 was home to 37 residents in four households. Hans Sørensen, a 35-year-old unmarried wine merchant, resided in the building with two wine merchant's apprentices, a male servant, a maid, a clerk and a merchant. Ole Hielte, bookkeeper in the Danish Asiatic Company, resided in the building with his wife Knudine Cathrine Hielte, their 12 children, a wet nurse and three maids. Friderich Julius Christian Saint Aubain, an artillery captain, resided in the building with his wife Ane Bolette Saint Aubain, their two sons, a wet nurse, a maid and the grocer Peter Hansen. The younger son,, who had been born in the building on 18 November 1798, would later become a writer, publishing under the pseudonym Carl Bernhard. He was a cousin of Johan Ludvig Heiberg.
In the new cadastre of 1806, Karsberg's property was listed as No. 51 in Christianshavn Quarter.The company existed well into the 20th century but had by then relocated to Amagerbrogade 15. It was later continued by his son P. A. Kaarsberg and then by Wilh. Schreiber
The property was home to 31 residents in five households at the 1840 census. Peter Andreasen Kaarsberg resoded on the ground floor with his wife Julie Maria født Thorup, his son Jacob Peter Kaarsberg, an apprentice, a male servant and a maid. Carl Andreas Løwert. another wine merchant, resided on the ground floor with his wife Caroline Frederiche and their three children. Anna Sophie Mariane Bruun, manager of Christianshavn Daughters' School, resided on the first floor with one maid. Broder Knud Wigelsen, a captain in the Royal Danish Navy, resided on the second floor with his wife Karen Magdalene Fangen, their seven children and one maid. Bentine Maria Adolph født Kinck, a widow greengrocer, resided on the third floor with her 27-year-old stepson Johan David Staffelt Adolph, her Maria Camilla Fanøe, two maids and two male servants.
Friderich Ludevig Flycke, a bookkeeper, resided in the building with his wife
Johanne Marie Flycke, their two daughters and one maid.
Pastor Nicolai G. Blædel, a co-founder of Indre Mission in Copenhagen, lived in the building from 1845 to 1846. The naval officer Edouard Suenson lived in the building in the beginning of the 1850s.
The Kaarsberg family owned the building until 1877. The property was home to seven households at the 1860 census. Peter Andersen Kaarsberg resided on the third floor with his wife Juliane Marie Thorup, his wife's niece Eleonora Jensen and two lodgers. Haagen Thulin, a restaurateur, resided on the ground floor with his wife Klara f. Petersen. their two stepdaughters, two employees and a maid. Frederik Wilhelm Barth, a carpenter, resided in the other ground-floor apartment with his wife and two unmarried children. Chris. Theodor Smauck Lange, a businessman, their infant daughter and one maid. Joh. Pet. Waywadt, a district physician, resided in the other first-floor apartment with his wife Louise, their five children and two maids. Christian Roselvig, a landscape painter, resided in one of the second-floor apartments with the widow Christine Albertus and her two children. Johanne Wendholtz, a schoolmistress, resided in the other second-floor apartment.
1880 census
At the 1880 census, Standgade 14 was home to a total of 84 residents. Frants Peter Nielsen, a barkeeper, resided on the ground floor and first floor of the building with his wife Ellen Marie Nielsen, m their two children and one maid.Carl Martin Linzmeier Engholm, a ship's chandler, resided on the first floor with his wife Petrine Nicoline Engholm,, their three children and one maid.
Peter Rasmus Linde, a pensioner, resided on the second floor with his wife Christine Linde, and the former coachman Johannes Nielsen. The painter Hans Jørgen Hammer and the sculptor Otto Evens lived together in the other second-floor apartment. Frederik Christian Larsen, a master saddler, resided on the third floor with his wife Petrea Larsen, two apprentices and a lodger. August Steffens, a master plumber, resided on the third floor and in the basement towards Strandgade. He lived there with his wife Vilhelmine Rosaline Nathalie Steffens, their five children and one maid. Niels Laursen, a proprietor of a coffee shop, resided in the other half of the basement with his wife Thora Sophie Laursen, his mother-in-law Anna Lindorff,, a nine-year-old foster daughter and two maids. Hans Peter Rasmussen, a saddler, resided in the garret with his wife Anna Rasmussen,, their two children and two maids.