Vodroffsvej 10

Vodroffsvej 10 is one of several surviving 19th-century villas situated on the west side of St. Jørgen's Lake in the Frederiksberg district of central Copenhagen, Denmark.

Built in 1865, it was one of three villas constructed in the area by master mason and architect Jørgen Wilhelm Frohne (1832-1909) for family members of the owner of nearby Vodroggsgård.

Bonnie Mürsch [da] — a lawyer whose father purchased the house in 1940 and is herself still living in one of its three apartments — published a book about it in conjunction with its 150th anniversary in 2015.

After the death of his widow Michaeline Arnoldine Megaline (née Skibsted) in 1833 it passed to their daughter and son-in-law Emilie and Niels Wolff.

[2] In 1852, when the so-called demarcation line was moved from Jagtvej to the eastern side of The Lakes, paving the way for redevelopment of the land,[3] some of it was used for the construction of three villas for members of the Wolff family, all of them to designs by the master mason Jacob Wilhelm Frohne (1832-1909).

The artist Hans Gyde Petersen [da] has also used the atelier,[10] The manufacturer Johnny Mürsch (1896-1968) purchased the building in 1940.

[11] One of them is the lawyer Bonnie Mürsch [da], who served as president of Foreningen til Govedstadens Forskønnelse from 1987 to 1997 and as chair of Det Særlige Bygningssyn from 1991 to 1994.

In 2016, Vordroffsvej 10 was featured in the TV2 programme Huse der aldrig kommer til salg ("'Houses that are never traded").

The garden side of the building features large arched windows on each floor as well as an avant-corps topped by a balcony.

Other features include a "Tiny Town" play area constructed by Johnny Mürsch for his children in 1959.

It was surrounded by birch trees with its own gate and comprises a play house in "Swiss style" with grass on the roof (like two outhouses), dovecote and a rabbit cage on stilts.

Features that have been removed include a roofed sandbox, a small well with hoist and swing, seesaw and a covered bird table.

William Scharling
The atelier photographed from the adjacent public space in 2022