Nybrogade 22

Nybroegade 22/Magstræde 9 is a complex of historic buildings overlooking Slotsholmen Canal and Christiansborg in central Copenhagen, Denmark.

She resided in the building with her two daughters (aged six and seven), a clerk (employee), two workers at the soap manufactory and one maid.

He resided in the building with two of his sisters (aged 21 and 22), a soap manufacturer, three other male servants and one maid at the time of the 1801 census.

[2] In 1802, Georg Jørgensen sold the property to tobacco manufacturer Jørgen Bech.

He started out as a soap manufacturer but would later become a successful businessman with interests in shipping and general trading.

Her father, Jacob Albert Meyer, a grocer (urtekræmmer) and tea and porcelain merchant, had owned the property at Gammel Strand No.

The Black Cock was from then on only used as his firm's office and as residence his long-term employee Nyholm as well as the family's physician.

August Ferdinand Fæster, a clothing retailer, resided in one of the ground-floor apartments with his daughter Amanda Emilie Augusta Fæster, Ida Hedevig Fjelstrup (pupil of N. Xahle's School, daughter of pastor Fjelstrup on Samsø) and one maid.

Anders Ferdinand Erlandsen, a businessman (grosserer), resided on the first floor with two sisters (aged 45 and 48) and one maid.

Ludvig Christian Tuxen, a high-ranking civil servant (departementsdirektør), resided on the second floor with his wife Louise Frederikke Tuxen, two of her children (aged eight and 22) and one maid.Susanne Emilie Lawetz, an unmarried woman in her 40s, resided on the third floor with four school children (three of them sons of pastors on Zealand), 24-year-old Fanny Susanne Garde, her relative Valdemar Lawetz (clerk) and two maids.

Oline Vilhelmine Petersen, a widow, resided on the fifth floor with her son Fritz Viggo Petersen, porcelain painter Christian Smith, ballet dancer Ludvig Theodor Smith and office courier.

Otto Steffensen, a conservator at Rosenborg Castle, resided on the third floor with his wife Harriet Steffensenm the relative Victoria Nyrup and one maid.

It features three dormer windows towards the street, The roof ridge is pierced by two chimneys.

The stone tablet with the cock from the previous building on the site is embedded in the wall.

The main entrance in the bay furthest to the left is topped by a blue-painted hood mould supported by corbels.

No. 19 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Snaren's Quarter, 1757.
Jørgen Peter Bech
A painting of the previous building on the site
Nybrogade 22 seen on a detail from Berggreen's cadastral map of Snaren's Quarter, 1884.
Nybrogade 22
Magstræde 9