Collin House

The Collin House (Danish: Den Collinske Gård) is a listed Neoclassical property at Amaliegade No. 9 in the Frederiksstaden district of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It takes its name after Jonas Collin, a prominent civil servant and leading patrons of the arts during the Danish Golden Age, who owned the building 1838–61. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of Hans Christian Andersen who often visited the house.

Collin House
Den Collinske Gård
The house viewed from Amaliegade
General information
Architectural styleNeoclassical
LocationCopenhagen, Denmark
CountryDenmark
Construction started1751
Completed1752

History

The house was built for chair-maker Peder Svendsen in 1752.[1] In 1756, it was owned by a brewer named Lauritz Jørgensen.

The property was in the new cadastre of 1806 listed as St. Ann's East Quarter, No. 155. It had by then been acquired by the physician and surgeon Heinrich Callisen. He has been described as the "father of surgery" in Denmark.[2]

Hans Christian Andersen smoking a cigar in the garden behind the house, photographed by Theodor Collin in 1972

In 1838, it was acquired by Jonas Collin. He had until then resided in an old and somewhat ramshackle house on Store Strandstræde. Allegedly, Jonas Collin decided to move when it rained through the ceiling and onto the table in the presence of Bertel Thorvaldsen.[3] On 3 October, Collin arranged a housewarming which was attended by some of the leading Danish artists of the time, including Bertel Thorvaldsen and Hermann Ernst Freund, Johan Ludvig, Hans Christian Andersen and Johanne Luise Heiberg. Jonas Collin and his wife lived on the two lower floors.[4] Their son Theodor Collin was at the time of the 1845 also part of the household.[5] Their daughter Ingeborg and her husband Adolph Drewsen resided on the second floor.[6]

The building was later home to the company M.J. Grønbech & Sønner whose old headquarters at Bag Børsen 76 was demolished in connection with an expansion of Slotsholmen. The company relocated to Kristianiagade 9 in 1947.[7]

Architecture
Rear side of the building
The building to the rear of the main building

The house consists of three floors and is seven bays wide. It is pulled back from the street and thus breaks fundamentally with Nicolai Eigtved's strict guidelines for the architecture of Amaliegade and Frederiksstaden. The authorities long hoped to see a new building at the site that filled out the hole in the house row and they therefore rejected an application from the owner to build a fence on the street in 1768. The fence seen today was built in connection with a renovation of the house where the three-bay wall dormer seen today replaced a triangular pediment dating from when the house was built.[1]

An arched gateway opens to a narrow, cobbled yard. A small building at the far end of the courtyard is also listed.

Today

The building fronting the street contains an apartment on each floor. NoriDane Foods, a Nortura-owned meat trading company, is based in the rear wing (No. 9B).

See also

References
  1. "Ved Stranden 20 / Højbro Plads 21-21a-b" (in Danish). Selskabet for Københavns Historie. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  2. "Sag: Store Kongensgade 110". Kulturstyrelsen (in Danish). Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  3. "Grandjeans gård – Store Strandstræde 3". hcandersen-homepage.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  4. "Amaliegade 9-9a-b" (in Danish). indenforvoldene.dk. Archived from the original on 7 August 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  5. "Folketælling -1845 - Amaliegade 155". danishfamilysearch.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 28 January 2021.
  6. "Noter til brev nr. 245:". wayback-01.kb.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 12 January 2021.
  7. "Historie" (in Danish). Grønbech Holding. Retrieved 5 January 2018.

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