Højbro Plads 6 is a listed property located on Højbro Plads in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918.
History
18th century
The site was formerly made up of two separate properties in the relatively narrow street Højbrostræde. The northern of these properties was listed in Copenhagen's first cadastre of 1689 as No. 64 in Strand Quarter and belonged to sugar-baker Henrik Schrøder. The southern property was listed as No. 65 and belonged to hofstafferer Bernt Tham. The old No. 64 was listed in the new cadastre of 1756 as No. 65 and belonged to wine retailor (vintapper) Frederik Daniel de Piloi. The old No. 65 was listed as No. 66 and belonged to merchant (kræmmer) Lars Lerche.
The property No. 65 was owned by hatter Johan Christ.Viertel at the time of the 1787 census. He resided on his property with his wife Maria Magdalena Jacobine Viertel, their three children (aged eight to 16), his mother-in-law Johanna Rachel Douilhac, two maids, a boy, a caretaker and two lodgers. The property No. 66 was home to 17 residents in two households. Heiman Joseph, a guldtrækker, resided in the building with his wife Judithe Joseph, their three children (aged 22 to 28), the eldest son Phillip Heiman Joseph's wife Helle Phillip, their four children (aged one to five) and three maids. Chresten Nielsen, a pottery seller, resided in the building with his wife Elisabeth Nielsen, their 11-year-old daughter and a 77-year-old widow.
Henrichsen and the new building
The two properties were both destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795, together with most of the other buildings in the area. After the fire, it was decided to replace the densely built-up block on the other side of Højbrostræde with a new square, Højbro Plads, which would act as a fire belt, a decision that gave the two properties a much more visible location. They were subsequently merged into a single property, The present building on the site was constructed by master builder Niels Schønberg Kurtzhals for textile merchant Lorentz Andreas Hinrichsen in 1804]06.
The property was listed in the new cadastre of 1806 as No. 52 in Strand Quarter. It was still owned by merchant Andreas L. Henriksen at that time.
Henrichsen was married to Marie Christine Wolff (1776-1830) and they had five children, two sons and three daughters, by the time that the building was completed. They later had three more children of which one, a daughter, died as an infant. Lorentz Andreas Hinrichsen died in 1824.
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The property was some time later acquired by the Jewish wholesale merchant Levin Seligmann Trier (1774-1823). He resided with his family on the second floor. His wife Jacobine Trier was the daughter of another wealthy Jewish merchant, Moses Melchior (1736-1812), founder of Moses & Søn G. Melchior. Their ten children included the later businessmen Seligmann L. Trier (1802-1881) and Marcus (Martin Trier (owner of S. L. Trier & Co). Hirsch Jacob Goldschmidt (1781-1829), another Jewish merchant, resided on the first floor. He was married to Rose Gerson (1795-1896), daughter of Heyman Gerson (1766-1832). The lawyer Christian Wilhelm Haagen (1792-1871) resided in the third-floor apartment from 1820. He was the son of Hans Haagen, Copenhagen's Chief of Police. He had just married Elise Agatha Ketty Agathe Kitte Kornerup (1798-1878), daughter of justitsråd Christian Julius Kornerup (1876-1851). In 1822. Haagen and his wife moved to an apartment at Frederiksberggade 4.
The property was later acquired by Hans Nicolay von Bülow (1798-1848), a senior clerk (fuldmægtig) in the city's administration, His property was home to 26 residents in four households at the time of the 1840 census. The owner resided on the second floor with his wife Jensine Andrea Kragm their two daughters (aged one and nine), the aunt Hansine Magrethe Schjøth and two maids. Ludvig Borrebye, a silk and textile merchant, resided on the ground floor with his wife Ane Cathrine Møller, a textile merchant (employee), two apprentices and one lodger. Michael Henriques (1793-1854), a Jewish merchant (grosserer), resided on the first floor with his wife Emilie Henriques (née von Halle), their sons Woæheæ and Ludvig Henriques, one male servant and one maid. Georg Herman Monrad (1794-1876), director of the Royal Danish Mail, resided on the third floor with his wife Sally Dorothea Louise Waltersdorff, two sisters-in-law, a nephew, one male servant and one maid.