The Tutein House (Danish: Tuteins Gård) is a Neoclassical former bourgeois townhouse situated at the corner of Vimmelskaftet and Badstuestræde, on the pedestrianized shopping street Strøget, in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was constructed by Johan Martin Quist for Friederich Tutein in 180001. The building was adaptedand extended in 1881 by for whom Horcks Passage on the other side of the street would later also be constructed. Café BerninaCpåenhagen's leading literary coffee house in the late 19th centuryopened in the building in October 1881. Kjøbenhavns Telefon-Selskab's first central office was also based in the building from 1881 to 1895. The building is still owned by Jorcks Ejendomme, a property company established by Reinholdt W. Jorck's son Georg Jorck and now owned by two charitable foundations created by him. The tenants include the newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad.
History
Site history, 175617945
The property now known as Vimmelskaftet 47&Badstuestræde 2 was created through the merger of four smaller properties. The corner property was listed in Copenhagen's new cadastre of 1756 as No. 158 in Snaren's Quarter, owned by grocer (urtekræmmer) Knud jacob Brüner. The adjacent property in Vimmelskaftet was listed as No. 157 in Snaren's Quarter, owned by grocer (urtekræmmer) Peder Mathiesen. The adjacent property in Badstuestræde was listed as No. 84, owned by shoemaker Johan Christian Rüdiger. The fourth property, situated in Vimmelskaftet, adjacent to No. 157, was listed as No. 156 in Snaren's Quarter, owned by merchant (købmand) Claus Plum.
No. 158 was home to 41 residents in four households at the 1787 census. Andreas Wulff, a needle maker, resided in the building with his wife Mette Stierne, seven children from his first marriage (aged eight to 20), two employees, three male servants (musqueteers) and one maid. Hinrich Johannes Krebs, a professor of mathematics, resided in the building with his wife Christina Sophia von Bracht, their five children (aged three to 14), one male servant, one female cook, two maids and the lodger Carl Friderich Hemsen (son of former governor of the Danish Gold Coast Johan Conrad von Hemsen). Detleff Mauritzen, a cook in the king's kitchen, resided in the building with his wife Ellen Larsenm their five children (aged one to 11) and one maid. Lars Christensen, a grocer (høker), resided in the basement with his wife Maria Christine, their three children (aged one to six) and one maid.
No. 157 was home to 15 residents in two households at the 1787 census. Niels Ahrensberg, a collector at Tal-Lotteriet, resided in the building with his wife Cathrine Lise Nickelman, their five children (aged two to 16), a female cook and a maid. Ludevig Wittrog, a supercargo in the service of the Danish Asiatic Company, resided in the building with his wife Henriette Magdalena Rossow, their three children (aged 11 to 21) and one maid. No. 156 belonged to wime merchant Jacob Drewsen at the 1787 census. He resided in the building with his wife Magdalena Friderica Zumpe, their son Martin Drewsen, the wife's sister Elisabet Margretha Zumpe, his nephew Jørgen Christopher Drewsen (assessor at the Supreme Court), an employee in his wine business, three apprentices, a coachman, a caretaker, one male servant, two maids and a female cook. No. 84 belonged to fourier Johan Heinrich Cramer. He resided in the building with his wife Margrete Catrine Lars Datter.
Tutein family
The buildings were all destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795, together with most of the other buildings in the area. The present building on the site was constructed by Johan Martin Quist for Friederich Tutein in 180001. Tutein had just taken over his father Peter Pierre Tutein's business empire. It comprised one of the largest trading houses in the city, a calico factory at Sortedam Lake and interests in a sugar refinery.
In 1802, Tutein also purchased the country house Rosendal (Rosenvenge) in Østerbro. In 1809. he also purchased the manor house Edelgave north of Copenhagen.
Tutein's property at the corner of Vimmelskaftet and Badstuestræde was listed in the new cadastre of 1806 as No. 135 in Snaren's Quarter. The associated warehouse caught fire during the British bombardment in 1807- 130,000 pounds of cotton was lost. As of 16 June 1809, the number of wholesale merchants in Copenhagen had increased to 173 (cf. list below).
In around 1810 the house was also the home of Tutein's wealthy son-in-law, Johann Jacob Frölich, who until then had lived at Lille Strandstræde 20. He was a prominent member of the German Reformed Church.