Peschier House
| Peschier House | |
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| Peschiers Gård | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Copenhagen |
| Country | Denmark |
| Coordinates | 55°40′40.75″N 12°35′7.93″E / 55.6779861°N 12.5855361°ECoordinates: 55°40′40.75″N 12°35′7.93″E / 55.6779861°N 12.5855361°E |
| Construction started | 1795 |
| Completed | 1798 |
| Client | Pierre Peschier |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Caspar Frederik Harsdorff |
The Peschier House (Danish: Peschiers Gård) is a listed property at Holmens Kanal in the Old Town of Copenhagen, Denmark. The building is currently part of Danske Bank's headquarters but it has been sold to Standard Life and the bank has announced its plans to move to new premises close to Copenhagen Central Station.
The land along Holmens Canal was sold off in lots by Christian IV in 1647. No. 12 was in 1749 purchased by Andreas Holm, a civil servant in General Kommissariatet. Baron Conrad Ditlev v. Knuth acquired the building in 1760.
In 1784, it changed hands again when it was acquired by the wealthy merchant Pierre Peschier. He was from Geneva but had come to Denmark in 1768 where he had initially worked for Frédéric de Coninck before starting his own trading house. In the Great Fire of 1795, which began at Gammelholm, Peschier's house was one of the first buildings to be destroyed. Peschier commissioned royal architect Caspar Frederik Harsdorff to design a new house which was completed in 1798. Peschier celebrated the inauguration of his new house with great festivitas, attended by members of the royal family. The crisis years of the 1800s, with the British bombardments of Copenhagen in 1801 and 1807, were, however, hard for his business and in 1811 he had to sell his mansion.
In 1831, wine trader J. A. Reuter. He rented out part of the property to Studenterforeningen (The Student Society). Their premises were inaugurated on Christmas Eve )24 December) 1835 with a prologue by Henrik Hertz. A stage was installed in the great hall. Hans Christian Andersen made an appearance as the tragic actor in his own Souffleurens Benefice at the stage in 1836.
A new era began when Christian Hornung took over the Student Society's lease in 1841 when he moved his piano factory to Copenhagen. He was so succesfyl that he could soon take over the ground floor, then the first floor and in 1846 the entire building. In 1850, Hornung commissioned G.F. Hetsch to expand the property with an extra floor in 1850.
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