Bredgade 45 is a former town mansion situated around the corner from Frederik's Church in the Frederiksstaden district of central Copenhagen, Denmark.
Originally constructed as an extension to the adjacent Moltke Mansion, it owes its current Historicist design to a renovation undertaken by Vilhelm Dahlerup.
Notable residents include Governor-General of the Danish West Indies Peter von Scholten, naval officer Steen Andersen Bille, landowner Peder Brønnum Scavenius and businessman and art collector Heinrich Hirschsprung.
Female Founders House, a hub for femakle entrepreneurs, is based in the side wing (Bredgade 45B).
[2] On 17 November 1788, Frédéric de Coninck and Niels Lunde Reiersen purchased the mansion.
Coninck kept the north wing when he sold the corner building to dowager queen Juliane Marie (1729-1796) in 1794.
The central section contained the home of his brother Jean de Coninck.
In 1810, Jean de Coninck had acqiored the adjacent building Bredgade 43 for 18,000 rigsdaler.
In 1820, Louis de Coninck sold half of the property to his brother-in-law Jean Monard.
He lived there with his wife Steen Caroline Wilhelmine Bille, their three children (aged five to ten), one male servant and two maids.
[7] Another daughter, Malvina, was married to the naval officer and plantation owner John Christmas.
[8] Ernst Poul Bruhn, a colonel-lieutenant and adjudant for the king, resided in one of the other apartments with his wife Anna Elsabeth Wulff, their four children (aged 11 to 23), one male servant and one maid.
[13] In January 1853, Sophie Hedevig Zeuthen and Frederik Otto Zytphen-Adeler, Naron of Adelersborg bought the property.
In November 1878, Frederik Herman Christian de Falsen-Zytphen-Adeler bought the property for DKK 172,896.
In November 1911, Rothmann 's property passed to his widow Thora Adelhaide Rothman Om December 1916, she sold it to Elektricitets Aktieselskabet Asea.