Erichsens Gård
Erichsen's Gård in Rønne on the Danish island of Bornholm was a town house that is now used as a secondary location to Bornholms Museum . It documents Bornholm's bourgeois living culture in the 19th century. It consists of the main house, an outbuilding and a garden. The ensemble is located at 7 Laksegade.
History of the house
The land on which Erichsen's Gård stands belonged in the 18th century to an area on which the city fortifications, which were never completed, were to be built. The house was built in 1806 by the mayor, moneylender and real estate dealer Herman Bohn Rasch with eight compartments (divided by half-timbering ) plus a cellar under three compartments. It was partly used as a residential building and partly as a tobacco factory. Already in the following year it was taken over briefly by a consortium and after the departure of some partners in 1812 it was sold to the battalion surgeon Johan Clement Curdts until it passed into the ownership of the major and land surveyor Henning Pedersen in 1822. Approx. In 1830 a dormer window, which had been unusual on Bornholm until then, was added. In 1838, when his estate was dissolved, the house was auctioned to Thomas Erichsen, whose family owned it for the next 112 years. Thomas Erichsen (1806 to 1886), who carried the title of chancellery and worked as a lawyer and military judge, had two more compartments added to the west, i.e. towards the coast, in 1840 because of his growing family, thus creating two more rooms. In 1857 he was forced to sell part of the garden area for economic reasons.
In 1919 the house was listed as a historical monument. On February 15, 1950, the house became the property of Bornholms Museum in order to make it accessible to the public as a museum location.
tour
From the entrance area, the Forstue (vestibule), you got to the Daglistue (day room), which is now used as a cash desk area and museum shop, by turning clockwise. From there is the Spisestue (dining room), the through room to the Inderste Stue (Innerste Stube) of the western corner room on the street front. From there you get to a chamber in the back of the house, which is directly connected to the Køkken (kitchen) on the right. From the small corridor behind it, turn right back into the Spisestue, straight ahead into the pantry or left via a staircase out of the house into the garden to the outbuilding. After visiting the garden and the adjoining building, one arrives back into the main house via the eastern side of the house, first of all into the most representative room, the saloon, which is followed by a bedroom with a view of the garden and from which one can also return to the forest , which is followed by another bedroom. The museum is still originally furnished.
literature
- Ann Vibeke Knudsen (German translation: Helmut Bach): Erichsens Gard in Rønne. Rønne 1993, ISBN 87-88179-40-0
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Coordinates: 55 ° 6 ′ 13 ″ N , 14 ° 41 ′ 51.7 ″ E