Sankt Annæ Plads 7
Sankt Annæ Plads 7 is a listed property on Sankt Annæ Plads in the Frederiksstaden neighbourhood of central Copenhagen, Denmark. The Copenhagen Masons' Guild has been based in the building since 1929. It was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1932. History. 18th century. The building was together with the adjacent building at No. 9 constructed by master mason Niels Rasmussen Engerslev and master carpenter Peder Rasmussen Møller in 1750. The two lots were both 20 "alen" wide and 0+ "alen" deep and located exactly midway between Bredgade (then Norgesgade ) and the new street Amaliegade. The two buildings were constructed to identical but mirrore ddesigns by court master builder Niels Eigtved who had also created the masterplan for the new Frederiksstaden district. The house to the left (No. 7) was owned by Engerslev and the one to the right was owned by Nøller. The first floor was rented out to colonel and later general Samuel Christoph Gedde (1681-1766), who served as chief of the Danish fortifications from 1739 until 1763. He lived there until his death in 1766. Gedde's wife died in 1751 but it is not know  whether it was before or after the move to Sankt Annæ Plads from their previous home in Sankt Peders Stræde. They had 10 children, including Christian Gedde. Engerslev's widow Else was after her husband's death married to court master mason Erasmus Frederik Platz. Their property was listed as No. 71 UU in St. Ann's East Quarter in the new cadastre of 1756. In 1792, Platz heightened the side wing with one storey to the same height as the front wing. Each of the floors was at the same time converted into a separate apartment. Platz and his  wife lived on the ground floor. The first floor was still rented out at the time of the 1787 census. The new tenant was Major-GFeneral Clemens August Haxthausen (1743-1683). He lived there with a male servant, a coachman, a caretaker and a maid. Else Platz kept the property following her husband's death in 1792. On 22 August 1797, she sold the property to merchant ("grosserer") Georg Daniel von der Pahlen (1763-1841) for 15.500 Danish rigsdaler. She also kept her ground floor apartment with an annual rent of 150 rigsdaler (from Easter 177798). The new owner occupied  the first floor apartment. Wuldem and Jraft, 1799n1727. In October 1799, Pahlen sold the property to Jens Wulden. In 1797, Wuldem had returened to Copenhagen after spending most of his life in the Danish colonies. Born in Copenhagen on 18 July 1749, he had come to the Danish Gold Coast at the age of 12. He later continued to the Danish Eest Indies onboard a slave ship. Aged 17m he was appointed as supercargo of a ship to Chine. He later completed two more journeys to China. He was later sent to Patna by the Danish Asiatic Company. In  1781, he was appointed as 1st Assistant at the Danish factory at Frederiksnagore. In 1674