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Torvegade 28

Torvegade 28/Wildersgade 26 is an 18th-century building complex situated on the corner of Torvegade and Wildersgade in the Christianshavn neighborhood of central Copenhagen, Denmark. It consists of a four-storey corner building and an adjacent three-storey former warehouse in Wildersgade (No. 26A). The two buildings were both heightened with one storey in 1852. The property was for almost two hundred years—from 1727 until 1917—owned by bakers. Their bakery was located in a side wing. A sandstone tablet with a relief of a crowned kringle and a cartouche with the initials of a former owner and the date "Anno 1770" can still be seen above the shop entrance in Torvegade. The entire complex was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1982.

The site was made up of two smaller properties in the late 17th century. One of them was listed as No. 54 in Copenhagen's first cadastre of 1689 and was at that time owned by Johan Christensen. The other one was listed as No. 73 and was owned by butcher Anders Kølmer. They were later merged into a single property. The property was owned by bakers from 1727. A seven-bays-long timber-framed building was replaced by a three-storey building some time between 1735 and 1743. The building was constructed in brick towards the two streets and with timber framing towards the central courtyard. The facade towards Wildersgade (then Lille Kongensgade) was crowned by a gabled wall dormer with a pulley. There was a basement towards the yard but not towards the street. The property was listed as No. 93 in the new cadastre of 1856 and was at that time owned by baker Christian Holst.

The property was acquired by baker Johan Albrecht Sørensen in 1770. As of the 1787 census, he lived there with his wife Bodel Catharina, their son (aged 14) and three daughters (aged two to nine), one maid, one wet nurse and three bakers. His bakery was located in a side wing. A two-storey warehouse was constructed next to the corner building in Wildersgade some time between 1672 and 1791. It replaced a combined carriage house and horse stable.

The property was later acquired by baker Johan Fohrmann. His property was home to 12 residents in two households at the time of the 1801 census. The just 32-year-old owner resided in the building with his wife Bodel Catharina, their three daughters (aged two to nine), one maid, one wet nurse and three bakers. Søren Truelsen, a former brewer and distiller, resided in the building with his wife Kirstine Hansen. Truelsen had previously been the owner of a distiller at the corner of Sankt Annæ Gade and Overgaden Neden Vandet.

The property was listed as No. 123 in the new cadastre of 1806. It was at that time still owned by Fohrmann.

The property was home to 17 residents in two households at the time of the 1840 census. Ernst Brockmeyer, a new master baker, resided in the building with his wife Sophie Behnecke, their four children (aged one to 16), three bakers, one baker's apprentice, one male servant and three maids. The eldest son was also a baker's apprentice. Dorte Behnecke (née Dahl), Sophie Brockmeyer's mother and herself widow of a master baker (possibly the previous owner), resided on the first floor with an 11-year-old granddaughter and one maid.

Ernst Brockmeyer is mentioned as a member of Tryjjefrihedsselskabet in 1836. In 1846–48, he succeeded E. Benthin as alderman of the Bakers' Gild in Copenhagen.

The property was still owned by Brockmeyer in 1850. The building was two years later heightened to four storeys.

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