Nybrogade 10

Nybrogade 10 is a Late Neoclassical property on the Gammel Strand-Nybrogade canalfront, opposite Thorvaldsens Museum and Christiansborg Palace, in central Copenhagen, Denmark.

The building on Nybrogade was constructed as a Baroque style townhouse but owes its current appearance to a major renovation in the 1850s.

The current building in Nybrogade, then known as Imod Kanalen, literally "Towards the Canal", was constructed in 1740.

Johan Reinholdt von Grube, director of Tallotteriet, a lottery, lived there with his wife, daughter and two maids.

Johan Wilhelm Rathje, now registered as a stadskaptajn (captain of the quarter's Civil Guard), was still residing there with his wife, their son, an "office boy", a caretaker and two maids.

[3] Georg Friderich Frelsen, an etatsråd was now residing in the other apartment with his wife Mette Cathrine Clemens, their two sons (aged 14 and 20) and two maids.

[5] Their eldest son, Frederik Hammerich [da] (1809-1877), who studied theology, lived in his father's house until 1835 when he went on a longer journey in Scandinavia.

He had in 1841 married Ane Mathea Aagaard (1820-1894), daughter of the estate owner Holger Hammerich, from whom he eventually inherited Iselingen Manor at Vordingborg.

Nybrogade 10 was at the time of its construction in c. 1740 a Baroque style townhouse, constructed with three storeys over a walk-out basement and a facade crowned by a Dutch gable dormer, reminiscent of the more intact next door Ziegler House at No.

Moyel's renovation in the 1850s heightened the building with one floor and converted the original two-bay gateway into a doorway.

The decorative band above the windows on the third floor is wider and turns into a sort of cornice supported by Corbels.

The pitched roof is clad in black tile and features three relative wide dormer windows.

The facade is five bays wide, plastered and painted in a pale beige colour, with shadow joints on the ground floor, contrasted by dark-brown windows.

The main entrance in the bay furthest to the left is raised four steps from street level and topped by a transom window.

No. 6 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Snaren's Quarter, 1757.
Johannes Hammerich
Martin Hammerich painted by Constantin Hansen in 1835.
Jacob Wilhelm Moyel
Nybrogade 10 in 1956.
Nybrogade 10 seen on a detail from Berggreen's cadastral map of Snaren's Quarter, 1884.
The original design of No. 10 (right), together with the two buildings that now form No. 12, on a drawing by Rach & Eeberg from 1749.
Sane site in 2021