Nybrogade 28
Nybrogade 28 is a Late Neoclassical property overlooking Slotsholmen Canal in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The narrow property comprises the four-storey building towards Nyrbogade as well as another four-storey building at Magstræde 15 on the other side of the block as well and a small courtyard surrounded by them on three sides. The entire complex was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945. The publishing house Forlaget Vandkunsten is based in the building. It also operates a literary venue in the building under the name Litteraturhuset (House of Literature). The activities comprise  a bookshop, café and public readings, debates and other literary events. History. 18th century. The site was in 1689 part of a larger property (then No. 23) owned by dyer Antoin Rentz.The building in Magstræde was constructed in 1731 by master mason S. Sørensen. The property (then No. 27) was in 1756 owned by Otte Ehlers. 19th century. The property was in the new cadastre of 1806 listed as No. 22 and was by then owned by H. Høvinghoff. The current building in Nybrogade was constructed in 1852 for master plummer Hans Mortensen and the building in Magstræde was  at the same time heightened., With the introduction of house numbering by street in Copenhagen in 1859 (as opposed to the old cadastrel lot numbers by quarter), No. 22 became Nybrogade 28 and Magstyræde 15. Nybrogade 28 was at the time of the 1860 census home to a total of 26 people. Johannes Fibiger (1821-1897), assistant pastor at the Garrisnon Church, resided on the first floor with his wife, unmarried sister-in-law and a maid. Lavrik Theodor Dahlman, a master saddler, resided on the second floor with his wife, four children and two maids. He was together with  his brother the owner of Brødrene F. & L. Dahlman, a saddler's workshop founded by their father in 1807 and since 1825 trading with a royal warrant. The Dahlman family shared the second floor with two elderly, unmarried sisters, Sophie and Petronelle Fridsch, both in their 70s, who were daughters of former Supreme Court justice Mads Fridsch. They lived there with a chamber maid and two maids. Poul Christensen Hyldgaard, the proprietor of the tavern in the basement, also had his home there. Magstræde 15 was at the time of the 1860 census home to an additional 22 people. 20th  century. Nybrogade 28 was at the time of the 1906 census home to a total of 21 people. They included the painter . The painter Herman Vedel (1875-1948) resided in the garret of Nybrogade 28 from 1908 to 1910. In 1835, Pippo Ranzoni opened Ristorante Italiano in the building. Born in Bergamo Pippo Ranzoni (1885-1040) had from 1908 served as concertmaster at the Italian opera in Cairo and Alexandria. He came to Denmark in 1912 where he initially played the violin in the orchestra of Palace Hotel. In 1914, he was promoted to conductor of the hotel's new  30-man symphony orchestra which was created as a counterpart to the music programme at Hotel d'Angleterre. The orchestra performed in the Palace Hotel during the winter season and in Hotel Marienlyst in the summer time. He was also frequently used as a conductor in the Tivoli Concert Hall and spent two seasons in St. Maurice. He died in 1949. The building was later acquired by the lawyer Aage Rold Lundbye (30 December 1886-). He had started his own law firm in 1923. Architecture. Mybrogade 29 is in four storeys over a raised cellar. The building material is brick. The  front of the building has a somewhat unusual finishing with shadow joints on the entire facade. It is painted in a pale grew colour on the ground floor and white on the upper floors. The two sections are divided by a Greek key frieze below the windows on the first floor. The facade is finished by a dentillated cornice. The windows are painted white, except for the ones on the ground floor which are green. The windows on the ground floor, second floor and third floor have sills. The windows on the first and second floor are accentuated with decorative  framing. The ones on the first floor have rosettes and hood moulds. The Mansard roof, clad in bluish tiles towards the street and red ones towards the yard, features three dormer windows on each side. A chimney is placed in the gable towards No. 26. A to bays wide, perpendicular side wing extends from the rear side of the building. The two wings are brought together by a by a canted corner bay. Theside wing has a monopitched red tile roof with two dormer windows and a chimney. The facade of the side wing, the two exposed bays of the  front wing and the rear side of Magstræde 15 are all yellow-washed. Magstræde 15 us also a four-storey building but just four bays wide. The building material is again brick. The simple front is plastered and painted in a pale grey colour. In the southernmost bay is a green-painted door and the cellar windows have green-painted shutters. The facade is finished by a simple, white-painted cornice. The pitched roof is clad in red tiles. Today. The building is today owned by Overretssagfører Aage Rold Lundbyes Fond, a charitable foundation established by its former owner. The  publishing house Forlaget Vandkunsten relocated to the building in 2017. It is also hosting a wide range of literary events under the name Litteraturhuset (House of literature). The activities comprise a book and a cafë as well as public readings, debates and other literary events.