Kompagnistræde 8

The current building on the site was constructed in 1799-1800 by master carpenter Hand Weile in partnership with lawyer Rasmus Hansen Lange.

62, now Kompagnistræde 12) with his wife Inger Casse, their four children (aged two to 11), two maids and two lodgers (carpenters) at the 1801 census.

Simon Levin, a master goldsmith and Civilian Infantry captain, resided on the ground floor to the left with his wife Dorothea Hansen, their four children (aged 12 to 23) and one maid.

Eduarad Schoewel, a master basketmaker, resided on the ground floor to the right with his wife Anna Späthmann, their three children (aged one to three), two apprentices and one maid.

Franz Just, a first lieutenant in the Royal Artillery Corps, resided on the first floor with his wife Anna (née Papp), their two sons (aged two and three), his mother-in-law Helene Kjølner and two maids.

Louis Klein, a typographer, resided on the second floor with his wife Emilie Køhler, their infant daughter and one maid.

Johann Jürs (1808-1857), a German teacher at the Royal Army Cadet Academy,[5] resided on the third floor to the right with his wife Anna Olson, their four children (aged one to nine) and a governess.

Abraham de Fonseca, a financier (Vexelmægler), resided on the third floor to the left with his wife Maria Kjærskov, three of their children (aged 17 to 28) and one lodger (a 17-year-old boy from Saint Croix).

She had studied singing under Giuseppe Siboni but did not achieve the same level of success as her elder sister, Ida Henriette da Fonseca (who did not live with her parents at the time of the 1840 census).

[7] Emile Klein (née Køhlert) had from her uncle, Christian Gottfried Voelker, manager of Køng Textile Factory, inherited the right to produce the so-called Køng Plaster, a very popular remedy for treating wounds (prepared from red lead, olive oil and camphor).

[17] Ann C. Sørensen født Berg, a widow preparing smoked food, resided in the basement with two of her children (aged 19 and 22) and one maid.

[18] Svend Knudsen, a wheelwright, resided in the basement to the left with his wife Sophie, their five children (aged three to 14) and one maid.

[22] Caroline Liebert was still residing on the first floor to the left with her niece Thora Carola Schyth and one maid.

[24][25] Caroline Petersen, a 65-year-old widow, resided on the third floor to the left towards the yard with her 21-year-old daughter and the lodger Carl Ulrik Lang (civil servant in the Ministry of Naval Affairs).

The residents included a master tailor, a retired customs officer, a book binder and a number of women occupied with needlework.

The main entrance is situated in the third bay from the left in Kompagnistræde underneath an ornamental transom window and a stone tablet with the house number.

No. 60 seen in a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Snaren's Quarter, 1757
Rasmus Lange
The building in 2018