Nybrogade 10 is a Late Neoclassical property on the Gammel Strand-Nybrogade canalfront, opposite Thorvaldsens Museum and Christiansborg Palace, in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The narrow property comprises the building at Snaregade 7 on the other side of the block as well as a perpendicular side wing that connects the two buildings along the northeast side of a small courtyard. The building on Nybrogade was constructed as a Baroque style townhouse but owes its current appearance to a major renovation in the 1850s. The complex was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945. The church historian Frederik Hammerich and the philologist and educator Martin Hammerich grew up in the building. Former city engineer and publisher of the city directory Kraks Vejviser Thorvald Krak (1830-1908) resided in the apartment on the third floor from 1899 until his death.
History
Early history
The property was in 1689 as No. 6 in Snaren's Quarter owned by lawyer Jørgen Simonsen. The buildings were together with most of the other buildings in the area destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The current building in Nybrogade, then known as Imod Kanalen, literally "Towards the Canal", was constructed in 1740. In 1756, it was (still as No. 6) owned by merchant Jacob Gregorius Graae.
The property was at the time of the 1787 census home to two households. Johan Vilhelm Rathje ( 1730 -1804), a merchant (), lived there with his wife, their son, the wife's sister, a servant and two maids. Johan Reinholdt von Grube, director of Tallotteriet, a lottery, lived there with his wife, daughter and two maids.
At the time of the 1801 census, No. 6 was still home to two households. Johan Wilhelm Rathje, now registered as a (captain of the quarter's Civil Guard), was still residing there with his wife, their son, an "office boy", a caretaker and two maids. Georg Friderich Frelsen, an etatsråd was now residing in the other apartment with his wife Mette Cathrine Clemens, their two sons (aged 14 and 20) and two maids.
Hammerich & Olesen
The property was in the new cadastre of 1806 listed as No. 5. It was by then owned by the merchants Hammerich & Olesen. Johannes Hammerich (1777-1852) was married to Metha Magdalena Adolph (1777-1823). The home was characterized by Herrnhut values.
Their eldest son, (1809-1877), who studied theology, lived in his father's house until 1835 when he went on a longer journey in Scandinavia. He would later become a professor of church history at the University of Copenhagen. His younger brother, Martin Hammerich (1811-1991), became a classical scholar. He resided in the house in Nybrogade until the early 1840s, interrupted only by two longer journeys abroad in 1837 and 1838 – 1839. In 1843, he moved to an apartment in a now demolished building at Vester Voldgade 11. He had in 1841 married Ane Mathea Aagaard (1820-1894), daughter of the estate owner Holger Hammerich, from whom he eventually inherited Iselingen Manor at Vordingborg.
The property was at the time of the 1840 census home to a total of 21 people. Johannes and Martin Hammerich resided in the apartment on the first floor with their housekeeper and a maid. A customs officer and his wife resided with their five children on the ground floor. A joiner and his wife resided with three children from the joiner's first marriage and a lodger in the basement. The apartment on the second floor was occupied by a 69-year-old widow who lived there with her unmarried daughter, a 50-year-old unmarried woman and a maid.
The poet Christian Winther (1796-1876 was a resident in the building in 1849–50. The poet U. P. Overbye (1819-1879) was a resident in the building in 1943–54.
Later history
In the 1850s, the building was acquired by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Moyel (1799-1865). Moyel's father, David (Ben Muel) Moyel (1753-1831), a Jewish furniture dealer who had emigrated to Denmark from Morocco, is remembered for building the Moyel House in Kongens Lyngby. Hacob Wilhelm Moyel had just completed the building at Bredgade 10. He heightened the building in Nybrogade with one storey and replaced the building on Snaregade with a new four-storey apartment building. The side wing was also refurbished.
Nybrogade 10 was home to a total of 27 people at the time of the 1860 census. The 35-year-old count Hans Schack Rudolph Knuth was lodger in one of the apartments.