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A contemporary Dutch map
o f the Danish capital
at the time o f the Swedish
siege,
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o.
The recentlyfounded town
o f Christianshavn is shown
as afo rtife d bridge-head
on the north shore
o f the island o f Amager.
map (ill. p. 63) was commissioned by the authorities in an effort to settle
boundary disputes between Christianshavn’ s property owners - a fruitful busi
ness of the period for the Copenhagen and Christianshavn legal profession and
one that supplied plenty of work and headaches even for the Danish Supreme
Court (ill. p.
57).
The former Jakob Madsen property at Strandgade (ill. p.
6$)
eventually
came into the hands of two merchant brothers, but they too went bankrupt
as a result of losses they suffered during the European wars in the 1690 ’s and
the property was again distrained upon and sold by auction in 1699.
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