Sværtegade 3

In c. 1750, by master builder Gotfrid Schuster constructed two two-storey houses with three-bay gabled wall dormers, one at present-day No.

[4][5] Cathrine Rotbøll, a widow, resided in the building with her three children (aged seven to 20), one male servant and one maid.

[6] Adam Severin, a lawyer, resided in the building with his wife Ane Oppen, their two sons (aged nine and 18) and one maid.

[7] Johannes Wagner, a baskermaker, resided in the building with his wife Lene Olsdatter and their two children (aged six and ten).

He lived there with his wife Karen Johansdatterm their four children (aged three to eight), one maid, three wheelwrights (employees) and five apprentices.

[9] Lorentz Reistrup, a bookdealer, resided in the building with his wife Sophie Lassen, their three children (aged one to six) and two maids.

[10] Johan Prom, a grocer, (urtekræmmer), resided in the building with his wife Margrethe Allerup, an apprentice and a maid.

[11] Jochum Dosse, a baker, resided in the building with his wife Christiane Smidt and two children from her first marriage (aged four and 15).

The architect Hans Conrad Stilling was that same year charged with installing a modern shop in the ground floor of the building in Sværtegade.

In 2010, Bertlesen & Schewing was commissioned to restore and transform the building into a restaurant, hotel and office space.

The red tile roof features three zinc-clad dormer windows with white pediments.

The three large, arch-headed shop windows in the ground floor, a tell tale feature of commercial properties from the Late Neoclassical period (1830–1855), were a novelty in Denmark at the time.

The gateway makes a suttle bend halfway through the building due to the irregular shape of the site and is towards the yard placed in a curved part of the facade.

No. 96B seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Jøbmager Quarter, 1757.
No. 3 in 2007
The shop front from 1847
The gateway
The building in the courtyard