Amagertorv 3 - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Amagertorv 3 - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Gråbrødretorv 3 is an 18th-century townhouse situated on Gråbrødretorv in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. Together with the adjacent buildings Gråbrødretorv No. 1 and No. 59, it is one of the best examples of the so-called "fire houses" that were constructed throughout the city following the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1926. It is a three-winged complex- consisting of a four-bay-wide, three-storey front wing and a four-bay-wide, three-storey rear wing, attached to each other via a staircase from 1816 along the east side of a central courtyard. A plaque on the facade commemorates that the poet Johan Herman Wessel (1742-1785) resided on the second floor when he wrote Jærlighed uden strømper in 1772. For the same reason, the building is also known as Wessel's House (Danish: Wessels Hus), although the poet never actually owned it but merely lived their as a lodger. Other notable former residents include the painter , master joiner and art historian . In 1944, Langberg charged Elna Møller, a colleague from the National Museum of Denmark, with restoring the building. Read more on Wikipedia
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