Hauser Plads 16 is an 11-bays-wide, mid 19th-century building situated on the east side of Hauser Plads in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. The building was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945. Notable former residents include writer and educator Harald Valdemar Rasmussen (18211891) and painter Julius Exner. Restaurant Schønnemann, one of Copenhagen's oldest traditional lunch restaurants, known for its smørrebrød and large selection of Snaps, has been located in the basement since 1901.
History
Early history
The site was formerly part of a much larger property, listed in Copenhagen's first cadastre of 1689 as No. 113 in Rosenborg Quarter and owned by stiftsskriver Claus Toft at that time. The property was listed in the new cadastre of 1756 as No. 102 and was then owned by merchant Just Fabritius.
The property was listed in the new cadastre of 1806 as No. 221, It was owned by Franz Nachtegall at that time. His property was the following year destroyed in the British bombardment of the city. In 1818, No. 221 was divided into No. 221A and No. 221B. In 1825, No. 221V was again divided into No. 221B and No. 221C. In 1830, No. 221C was divided into No. 221 C and No. 221D. No. 221D is the property now known as Hauser Plads 16. The present building was constructed for distiller Ole Møller in 1830.
1845 census
The property was home to a total of 84 residents at the time of the 1845 census. Abigael Henriette Rønne (née HackI, widow of Chancery secretary Christian Frederik Rønne, resided in the ground floor apartment to the left with the sistersElisa Clemmensen and Margaritha Clemmensen (aged 26 and 19, lodgers) and one maid. Andreas Thomsen, a 65-year-old widower, resided on the ground floor to the right with one maid and three lodgers. Hans Frederik von Antzée, a retired military officer, resided in one of the first floor apartments with his wife Christiane Antzée (née Møller) and one maid. Ane Dorthea Barner (née van der Maase), a 57-year-old widow, resided in the other first floor apartment with the brothers Rasmus Christian Rasmussen (22, theology student) and Carl Wilhelm Rasmussen (17, clerk), one maid and one lodger. Harald Waldemar Rasmussen (1821-1891), a later professor of theology, shared one of the third floor apartments with the sailor Rudolph Emmerich Arnold Rasmussen, Christiane Thrane (née Møller) and her two foster children (named Thrane, aged 11 and 13) and one maid. Johan Larsen, a joiner, resided in one of the two second floor apartments with his wife Marie Nicoline Larsen and their three children (aged four to six). Frederikke Koch, a 51-year-old widow with a pension, resided in the other second floor apartment with one maid. Agnes Keck, a widow supplementing her pension with needlework, resided on the third floor to the left with her two children (aged seven and nine), four lodgers and one maid. Morten Andersen, the proprietor of a tavern in the basement, resided in the associated dwelling with his wife Maren Christensen, their 13-year-old daughter and three lodgers.
20th century
A haulier's business in the building was around the turn of the century taken over by Peter Frederiksen. In 1901, he and his wife Augusta opened a restaurant in the basement. The restaurantwhich was then called Café Hauser Pladshad been founded by his parents Frederik and Marie Henriksen on the other side of the square (in the basement of No 11, now demolished) back in 1877. Peter Frederiksen had returned to Hauser Plads to assist his mother in the restaurant after his father's death in the early 1880s. The restaurant catered to the many farmers and coalers who visited the city on market day to sell their produce and charcoal on nearby Kultorvet and the city's other marketplaces, leaving their carriages and horses on Hauser Plads.