Sundorph House

The Sundorph House is a Neoclassical property at Ved Stranden 10 in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark.

It is not clear weather he continued the guesthouse, operated a grocery business (urtelræmmer) on the site or combined the two occupations.

He was married to Giertrud Hansdatter, daughter of the naval captain Hans Lauritzen (died 1683).

On 22 February 1710, Giertrud Hansdatter and her son Thomas »Thorskmede were granted a royal license to establish a production of French wine vinegar in the building.

[1] Susanna Olsen endowed the property to organist at Trinitatis Church Johan Foltmar, who was married to her sister's granddaughter.

He had later worked as bookkeeper for John & David Brown in Copenhagen before establishing his own business in 1768.

Mette Christine Pay (née Collstrup, 1752–1834) continued the firm after her husband's death.

Mette Christiane Pay (née Collstrop) married on 21 December 1778 to Søren Sundorph (1743–1794).

His birth name was Søren Christensen but he had assumed the name Sundorph after his home town Nørre Sundby in the north of Jutland.

Søren Christian and Mette Christine Sundorph resided in the building with their six children (aged one to 12), grocer (employee) Henrich Bohr, two apprentices and two maids at the time of the 1787 census.

The company was then run from a wooden shed on Slotsholmen until the house at Ved Stranden was rebuilt to a new design in 1797.

The younger son, Hans Pay Sundorph (1790–1860), joined the company in 1816 and became its sole owner upon his brother's death in 1826.

[4] Maria Sophie Fenger, a 28-year-old widow, resided in the building with her three-year-old daughter and one maid.

Hans Pay Sundorph and his wife Else Christine Marie Klinting resided with their two sons, two employees and three servants on the two lower floors.

[9] The house is built in the Baroque style and consists of three floors, mansard roof and a cellar.

No. 247 seen in a detail from Christian Gedde's map of the East Quarter, 1757
Sundorph's House as it appeared before the Great Fire of 1795
The wooden sheds in front of the destroyed Christiansborg Palace
Hans Pay Sundorph
The house in the 1900s
The property (left) seen in a detail from one of Berggreen's block plans of East Quarter, 1886-88