Amaliegade 12
Amaliegade 12 is a historic property in the Frederiksstaden Quarter of central Copenhagen, Denmark. Count Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow lived in the building when he was appointed prime minister in 1797 and it has also housed the American diplomatic mission to Denmark. The law firm Moltje-Leth Advokater is now based in the building. The building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918. History Early history Amaliegade 12 was built between 1753 and 1755 by Nicolai Eigtved for the timber merchant Dittleff Lindenhoff. Eigtved had also created the overall plan for the new Frederiksstaden district just a few years earlier. In the new cadastre of 1756, the property was listed as No. 71 L. On Cristian Gedde's district map of St. Ann's East Quarter from 1757, it was marked as No. 319. It was by then owned by one baron Wedel. Hauch Adam Wilhelm Hauch, a military officer who was appointed to chamberlain that same year, acquired the building in 1782. He lived in the house until 1785 and went on a longer journey in Europe the following year. Reventlow In 1783, Hauch's heirs sold the property for 17,000 Danish rigsdaler to Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow for use as his new city home. By royal resolution of 1786, Reventlow received permission to loan the money for the house from a bonded Fideikommis capital acquired from the sale of Lungholm. Reventlow's holdings included Christianssæde and Pederstrup on Lolland and he played a central role in the Danish agricultural reforms of the 1780s and 1790s and was appointed as Minister of the State in 1797. The property was listed in the new cadastre of 1806 as No. 120 in St. Ann's East Quarter. By royal resolution of 17 August 1815, Reventlow obtained permission to sell the house in Amaliegade. The money would be used for improving his estates on Lolland. 18141740 The property was later owned by wholesale merchant Christian Daniel Otte. He was the brother-in-law and business partner of nIELS rYBERG. His grandfather Christian Otte and father Friederich Otte had managed to establish the largest single-proprietor shipping company in Denmark outside Copenhagen. His mother was a member of the Reventlow family. Notables who were among the residents in the period 1814 to 1840 include Christian Albrecht Jensen (1825) and economist C. G. N. David (1830–1831). The property was home to four households at the 1834 census. Countess C.M.Bille resided on the ground floor with kammerjunker Carl Ludvig Scheel, volunteer in Generalpostdirectionen Axel Schell, volunteer in Generaltoldkammeret Sigfrid Vector Schell, lady's compansion Nanna Haraldine Bøjesen, one male servant and two maids. Greve Zoldi, an overkammerjunker, resided on the first floor with a governess, a caretaker, a coachman, one male servant and one maid. Johan Frederik Redsted, a captain in the 1st Jutland Infantry Regiment, resided on the second floor with his wife Anna Chr.B.Redsted, their seven children (aged one to 19), one male servant and two maids. F.C.Brandt, a concierge (employed by etatsråd Marcus), resided in the