| The Judge´s Estate
| | Elsinore can show examples of distinguished commoner´s houses from the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century, where the town flourishes and is considerably enlarged. Here is the row of houses in Stengade 70-76, where a late Gothic stone house, the present magistrate´s office, is succeeded by af gable house with typical style traits from the Renaissance.
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Renaissance Houses The building of Kronborg was founded on a practical cooperation between the royal power, the town and many hired craftsmen, who lived in Elsinore. The activities surrounding the building, but even the increasing trade and the business brought in by the Sound duty, led to the increase of the population. This also led to a clear element of foreign inhabitants, for instance Germans, Dutchmen and Englishmen. This meant that new houses had to be built. Some of the houses had a direct connection to the work in Kronborg. This was the case with for instance the customs officer David Hansen’s house in Stengade 76, built in 1579. Jörgen Kock built a stone house in Malmo around 1525 – an early example of the affluent resources of the upper classes. The house still has the staircase house ends of the Gothic, but the horizontal bands of sand stone and the decorations of the house end front anticipates the entry of the renaissance style.
Stengade 70 - 76 | Stengade 76 | Hansen´s Epitaph | Strandgade | Malmo |
Kock´s House, Malmø |
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