page_title: Martha Wærn
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Martha Wærn / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: A Summer Dau in Allégade, picture from Allégade in Frederiksberg, Denmark.
context_page_description: Martha Wærn née Haslef, also Værn, was a wealthy Norwegian-Danish philanthropist who was raised in Christiania, today's Oslo. On her death, in accordance with her will, substantial funding was left for the establishment of a boarding school where fatherless middle-class Norwegian and Danish girls could be trained to become good housewives. Known as Det Wærnske Institut, the school opened in 1814 on Allégade in Copenhagen.
context_section_description: Martha Wærn is together with her husband buried in Copenhagen's Assistens Cemetery. Their grave monument was designed by [[[Johannes Wiedewelt]]
   
  The Wærn Institute was opened in 1814 as an orphanage and boarding school. Peder Andreas Kolderup Rosenving and Peter Johan Monrad had been selected by Wærn as the two first directors of the institution . Det Wærnske Institut was from 1821 to 1887 based in Møllmanns Landsted at Allégade 6 and then in Luis Bramsen's Villa Tharand on nearby Kastanievej (No. 2). The institution were in 1914 taken over by Mariaforbundet. . It is now operated under the name Kastanievejens Efterskole.
caption: Drawing by Christian Dreichmann of the building on Allégade housing Det Wærnske Institut (1982)
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