The Grundtvig House (Danish: Grundtvigs Hus) is a complex of historic buildings at Torvestræde 7 in Præstø, Vordingborg Municipality, Denmark. It takes its name after N. F. S. Grundtvig, who lived there for a year and a half in the early 1920s. It was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency on 1 March 1982.[citation needed]
| Grundtvig House | |
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Grundtvigs Hus | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Præstø |
| Country | Denmark |
| Coordinates | 55°7′22.84″N 12°2′29.27″E / 55.1230111°N 12.0414639°E |
| Completed | 1821 |
History edit
The house was built for the baker Frantz Dems between 1820 and 1821. The construction reused some of the timber framing from the previous building at the site.[1]
N. F. S. Grundtvig rented an apartment in the building when he became pastor at Præstø Church in June 1821. Grundtvig returned to Copenhagen in December 1822 to assume a position as pastor at Church of Our Saciour on Christianshavn.[2] He then lived in a now demolished building at Torvegade 25 on Christianshavn.[3] Grundtvig was later elected for Rigsdagen in the electoral district of Præstø in 1849.
Niels Hansen, a later owner of the building and master buildier, expanded the building northwards with two extensions in 1856. He also constructed a new side wing in 1862 from where he operated a brewery.[citation needed]
Architecture edit
The Grundtvig House is a long one-storey brick building with yellow rendering on a black-painted foundation. It has a three-bay wall dormer above the centrally placed, arched gateway that opens to the courtyard. The side wing from 1862 is built with timber framing on a black-painted brick foundation.[citation needed]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Sag: Grundtvigs Hus, Præstø". Kulturstyrelsen (in Danish). Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ "N.F.S. Grundtvig (1783-1872)". kristendom.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ "Bopælsregister – G". indenforvoldene.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 6 August 2017.
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