| Renaissance Houses
| | Elsinore as well as Malmo show examples of distinguished houses from the end of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th
Elsinore flourishes and is considerably extended. Here is the row of houses in Stengade 70-76, in Elsinore, where a late gothic stone house, the present judges´ office, is succeeded by gable house with typical Renaissance marks. |
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 |
Half-timbered Houses
Apart from stone houses there are many half-timbered houses in renaissance style. A beautiful example of this is mayor Iver Pedersen´s estate (from around 1600) o the corner of Stengade and Skyttenstræde.
Half-timbered houses in renaissance style are common in the entire Sound region and not least in Ystad, whose atmosphere is reminiscent of that of Elsinore.
Stengade-Skyttenstraede | 
Ystad | 
The Anchor |
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