About: Store Kongensgade 59

Store Kongensgade 59 is a late 18th to early 19th-century building complex, surrounding a central courtyard, situated on Store Kongensgade in Copenhagen, Denmark. It consists of two five-bay buildings fronting the street, two side wings and two rear wings. The northern (right) front wing dates from 1782 while the other buildings were added some time after 1800. The two buildings fronting the street were jointly listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1918. Notable former residents include author Knud Lyne Rahbek, politicians Niels Rosenkrantz and Johan Sigismund von Møsting, landscape painter Georg Emil Libert, businessman Alfred Hage and actor Arthur Andersen.