Vandkunsten 8

A rear wing connects the building to a former warehouse, Kompagnihuset, wjocj faces Kompagnistræde (No.

Bjørnsen's widow was after his death married to brewer Jens Jensen Bering.

Jens ering and his wife Ellen Søfrensdatter both died during the plague outbreak of 1711.

On 27 August 1787, the property was sold to assistant in the Icelandic Trading Company Hans Christian Lange.

Hoppe was already the owner of the more prestigious Bernstorff Mansion in Vredgade and must therefore have purchased the Vandkunsten property as a pure investment.

Lind moved the brewery to a new building facing Kompagnistræde on the other side of the block and converted the old one to a stately residence for his own use.

His widow Wibeke Kirstine Wackeprang (1778-1858) was later married to Kammerraad Adam Gotlob Lund (1764-1843).

On 8 November 1819, Lund sold the property to beer seller (æltapper) and later brewer Poul Nicolaj Christensen.

[1] On 3 January 1876, it was acquired by lawyer Vilhelm Schytte and already the same day sold to Frederik Horsens Block.

On 30 November 1880, Block sold the property to the businessmen Jeppe Lauritsen & Martin Poulsen.

It was restored by the architects O. Guldbrandsen (b.1928) and K. E. Sand Kirk (b.1922) in 1984 and their work received an award from Copenhagen Municipality the following year.

The four-storey warehouse on the other side of the block is seven bays wide and features an asymmetrically placed wall dormer with the remains of a hoist.

No. 21 seen on a detail from Christian Gedde's map of Copenhagen's West Quarter, 1757.
Vandkunsten 8 photographed by Frederik Riise
Vandkunsten 8 in 1914
[The warehouse towards Kompagnistræde