Torvegade 28

A sandstone tablet with a relief of a crowned kringle and a cartouche with the initials of a former owner and the year ""Anno 1770" can still be seen above the shop entrance in Torvegade.

The facade towards Wildersgade (then Lille Kongensgade) was crowned by a gabled wall dormer with a pulley.

As of the 1787 census, he lived there with his wife Bodel Catharina, their son (aged 14) and three daughters /aged two to nine), one maid, one wet nurse and three bakers.

The just 32-year-old owner resided in the building with his wife Bodel Catharina, their three daughters (aged two to nine), one maid, one wet nurse and three bakers.

[4] Søren Truelsen, a former brewer and distiller, resided in the building with his wife Kirstine Hansen.

[5] Truelsen had preciously been the owner of a distiller at the corner of Sankt Annæ Gade and Overgaden Neden Vandet.

[7] Dorte Behnecke (née Dahl), Sophie Brockmeyer's mother and herself widow of a master baker (possibly the previous owner), resided on the first floor with an 11-year-old granddaughter and one maid.

Gustav Brockmeyer resided in the building with his wife Maria (née Als), his 21-year-old sister, a housekeeper, one maid, four bakers and one caretaker.

Svend Svendsen West, a royal machinist, resided on the first floor with his two children (aged four and seven) and one maid.

Anna Magretha Andersen (née Jensen), a widow needleworker, resided on the fourth floor with her 22-year-old daughter.

The facade is towards both streets finished with a sandstone-coloured belt course above the ground floor and a dentillated cornice.

[1] The red-painted former warehouse next to the corner building in Wildersgade is three storeys tall and three bays wide.

The plastered facade is painted red with a white dentillated cornice and white-oainted windows.

The side wing features two tall gabled wall dormers with pulley beams.

No. 93 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Christianshavn Quarter, 1757.
A stone tablet with a crowned kringle , Sørensen's initials and the year "Anno 1770" seen above the door in Torvegade..
The corner building seen from Wildersgade.
Wildersgade 26A