Varehuset Messen

Varehuset Messen was a department store on Købmagergade in central Copenhagen, Denmark, operated by Hilligsøe, Køedt & Co..

A branch of Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College is now based in the building.

He was married twice, first to Anna Maria Benners and secondly to Marie Catherine Fabritius von Tengnagel.

His second wife was the daughter of Michael Fabritius and Anna Maria Marie de Köster.

He had previously worked for Peter de Windt and assisted his widow with the management of her husband's trading firm.

He lived in the building with four lodgers and a relatively large staff consisting of two male servants, two maids, a female cook and a coachman.

[3] Their staff consisted of a male servant, a housekeeper, a female cook, a maid, a coachman and a caretaker.

[1] Peter Tutein died on 11 January 1828, The property was subsequently acquired by the sulk and textile merchant Johan Christian Lund (1799-1875).

Johan Christian Lund (1789-1875) resided in one of the first-floor apartment with his five children (aged 12 to 15), husjomfru Elisa Denker, three drapers (employees), an apprentice, two male servants and two maids.

Johan Christian Lund resided in one of the two first-floor apartments with his four children (aged 21 to 24), husjomfru Elise Dencker and engineering student Heinriette Reimers.

Conrad Martin Julius Steincke, Wilhelm August Schneider and Carl Anton Frøde—three new silk and textile merchants—resided in the other first-floor apartment with one male servant and two maids.

The building on Købmagergade
The building's facade towards Klareboderne seen to the next to the larger Stoy House (now Klareboderne 3), 1648.
A view down Klareboderne from Købmagergade with No. 8 seen to the left.
Messen in Købmagergade
Varehuset Messen