Brohuset with the match stick factory with the smoking
chimney in the background.
JOHAN WILHELM KRAUSE
1867 - 1869
Brohuset, Ågade 62, Copenhagen
Johan Wilhelm Krause
(1803 - 1889) stone cutter and lime works owner
I
n
1867 l
ime works o
wner
Johan
Wilhelm
Krause
owned
Brohuset
(the bridge
house) just off
Bangert
bridge and the
Ladegårdsåen
.
Here
he sought
to build an
ice cellar
and a
match
stick
factory
;
he
did not get
permission to
the ice cellar
but were
allowed
to start a match
stick
factory.
Shortly after
he
sought
and received
permission to expand
the factory with fireplace
for melting
sulfur.
The factory
existed
only in a few
years
,
probably
to
1869, when
H.C.
Lund (
not
the same Mr.
Lund from
Lund &
Hartmann
)
rented space
in the
building
and established
a
lacquer boiling plant
for book printing
.
In 1873,
was for the
last time
heard anything
abo
ut
Krause
in
Brohuset
when he
established a
bowling
lane and a
gazebo.