Nybrogade 22
Nybroegade 22 is a mid 19th-century property overlooking Slotsholmen Canal and Christiansborg in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The building and a house at Magstræde on the other side of the block were listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1945.History
Jørgen Peter Bech, who would later become a wealthy merchant and shipowner, bought a soap manufactory at the site in circa 1800. Bech was the maternal grandfather of the writer Wilhelm Bergsøe. Bergsøe often visited the house on Sundays and in holidays and has written about his grandfather's household in Nybrogade in De forbistrede børn.
The current building at the site was built in 1852-1853 for decorative painter Carl Løffler. He would, however, already die from cholera on 28 July that same year as one of approximately 4,800 victims of the 1853 Copenhagen cholera outbreak. He is buried in Assistens Cemetery.Architecture
The building is five storeys tall and seven bays wide. The roof features three dormer windows. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency on 16 July 1945.
