Karens Minde

Lisesminde In 1795, Kongens Enghave was divided into 22 estates and sold to wealthy citizens from Copenhagen. The estate later known as Karens Minde was registered as No. 22 (cadastral number) in Kongens Enghave, then part of Hvidovre Parish. With an area of just 11 tønder and a half skæppe (1 skæppe land = 690 m2), it was the smallest of the new estates. The estate was known as Lisesminde (Lise's Memory) from at least 1800. It is not clear for whom it was named. The first known owner of the property was the Jewish merchant Abraham Wulf (1739-1815). Wulf's wife was called Hanne Levin. Wulf went bankrupt. On 31 December 1800, Lisesminde was therefore sold by forced auction. The buyer was the merchant and ship-owner Niels Holbeck. Shortly thereafter, Holbeck sold Lisesminde to mayor Johan Jahn (died 1819). In 1809, Jahn sold Lisesminde to the pharmacist Marx Boye. In 1804, Boye had bought Løve Apotek from Ludvig Manthey. In 1812, he also succeeded Manthey as technical director of the Royal Porcelain Factory. Karens Minde, 18561879 After Boye's death, Lisesminde was sold to the wine merchant Jacob Arnkiel (1823-1870). On 19 November 1756, he renamed the property Karens Minde in rememvrance of this maternal grandmother Karen Wancher (née Schmidt). In 1865, he sold it for 10,000 Danish rigsdaler to chamberlain Haagen Valdemar Mathiesen (1812-1897). In 1871, they opened Frederiksholm. The Jøhler brothers may thus have hoped to find more ressources in the form of clay of chalk for use in their industrial enterprise. ==Today==