Wegener House

[1] In the summer of 1801, James Price found a permanent stage for his pantomime performances in a wooden pavilion in the garden situated to the west of Den Hvide Svane's old main building.

The venture was after his death in 1805 continued by his widow Hannah Price (née Tott).

In 1812, Wolff sold the western part of the property to kammerråd Christian Rothe [da] (1770-1852).

[2] The theatre closed in 1845 due to increased competition from Georg Carstensen's Tivoli Gardens.

They were the same year granted permission to construct two identical three-storey brick buildings on the site.

Other buildings constructed by him include the listed properties at Dronningens Tværgade 4 (1839) and Klerkegade 25 (1847).

[3] His daughter Emilie Nathalia Lütthans was married to the priest and politician Ditlev Gothard Monrad.

He moved into the second floor apartment with his extensive private book collection of more than 22,000 volumes.

Louise Marie Kramer, a widow in her 50s, resided on the ground floor of the rear wing (below Wegener, that is) with the seamstress (employee) Vilhelmine Florentine Schiørmann (née Gravesen).

Tønnes Carl Christian Bohn, the local rodemester [da] (district administrator), resided on the second floor of the rear wing (above Wegener) with his wife Pouline Bohn (née Schlichtkrull), two unmarried children (aged 25 and 27) and one maid.

Alfred Balduin Theobald Pflergmacher, a former manufacturer, resided on the third floor of the rear wing with the widow Sophie Elise Christense Döllner (née Praem), his two children (aged 15 and 19) and one maid.

Rasmussen had for some time operated Marius Møllers Boghandel a few houses down the street at Vesterbrogade 52.

[5] The adjacent twin building at Vesterbrogade 58 was from around 1880 home to Kleis Kunsthandel, a combined gilder's business, frame shop and commercial art gallery.

This building was at some point heightened with a Mansard roof with a central three-bay gabled wall dormer.

[5] Th four-storey rear wing and the library building are both constructed in undressed red brick.

The southern part of the library building (facing the rear wing) is curved like the apse of a church.

Vesterbros Morskabsteater.
The building seen as part of the house row to the right, 1860..
C. D. Wegener.
August Bang..
August Bang's blookshop at No. 58-60..
The library building viewed from the courtyard of No. 62.room