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Strandgade 91 GPS: 56.034715, 12.615121
Beach Street 91 (Strandgade 91):
Rasmussen's Yard was built in 1637 by tolladviser Christen Rasmussen. Anchors in the facade form builder and his wife, Kirstine Oluf daughter, initials.
The building is today known as Old chandlers yard (Skibsklarerergaarden) and the museum of the Sound Due period.
Here is include a shop that sells "original" items. In the courtyard, as in 1700 a small brewery that produces the in-house beer.
In the well-preserved house with interior from 1780, one gets a vivid impression of what it looked like when ships from around the world supplies ready and paid their Sound duty.
It is also possible for the tour of the rest of the house.
Sound Dues was one of Denmark's most important revenue sources from the introduction of Erik of Pomerania in 1429 for the discontinued in 1857.
The payable of every ship that passed through Danish waters.
Now go back to Old Ferry Street (Gl. Færgestræde), which in 2009 was recreated, as it looked in the Middle Ages with, among other maladjusted field stones.
The Street was originally established as one of the links between ship bridges on the beach and the main street of the then new city whose strategic location at the gateway to the Sound secured progress and growth through international trade relations.
Street names in Elsinore says, as in other cities, a good deal of cultural history. In the medieval street grid was
Old Ferry Street (Gl. Færgestræde) the street that led down to the ferries.
The owner of Stengade 66, let supposedly Old Ferry Street (Gl. Færgestræde) cordon off in 1746 to use it to "poultry yard, toilet and Pigsty".
Despite the city council's incessant complaints remained the Strait closed for nearly 100 years. It was after closing, called "the closed Strait" until the reopening of the 1911th
When chickens and pigs rummaging in the waste that residents threw out, one can imagine the stench, and Elsinore many plague epidemics can safely with the numerous foreign seamen presence attributed to the paradise that here was created for rats and other disease vectors.
Note among other things, the fine old lamps and the Low German inscription above one of the doors. It recalls that in the old days could buy wine by the pharmacist.
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Helsingør Kommunes Museer, Skibsklarergården
Strandgade 91, 3000 Helsingør
Telefon: 4928 1836