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Despite his grandiose schemes, Trellund went bankrupt and to avoid m ee t­ ing his commitments he fled across the fron tier, and took up residence in what was at that time the independant Duchy of Sleswig, where after gaining a no to riety as a charletan, he later died. His Christianshavn properties were distrained upon by the Crown. Part of the ground involved was, for a time, intended to be used as a site for the building of a church. This p lo t is marked A on a pictorial map of Copen­ hagen published in 1674 (ill. p. 47). This plan lapsed as did yet another which included a scheme for building of barracks as well (ill. p. 49), and the site was eventually handed over as private property to the commandant of the neighbouring barracks. Field Marshall Hans Schack (ill. p. 5-1), the commander of the Danish forces during the Swedish siege of the capital owned p roperty adjoining Gronne- gaards Havn and in the 1670’s, after the site had reverted to the Crown, a factory was built here for the production of prim ing and similar materials for the Danish defense forces. In addition to the factory, barracks were built on an adjoining site to accomodate the workers (ill. p. 5-3) who were in fact enlisted artillery-men. The powder works was an ill fated venture —it blew up in 1679 and in doing so wrecked the barracks. After rebuilding, a similar disaster occured some few years later. It is of in terest to note that both barracks and powder works were in what would now be described as a »built-up« area, and there were in fact several dwelling houses later pu t up almost adjoining them . The question of building a church in the neighbourhood of Grønnegaards Havn was a constantly recurring one in the 1600’s, bu t it was many years before anything concrete was done about it. The original plans were abandoned when war broke out w ith the Swedes in 165-7. Some years later an Officer of the Royal Engineers, Gottfred Hoffmann, produced a scheme for the building of a church and even a series of streets in an area to be reclaimed w ithin the ramparts (ill. p. 5-9). This piece of town-planning m et with the same fate as an earlier scheme that had proposed a rational development of the area and in­ cluded barracks and married quarters for officers and ratings of the Navy. At a later date Hoffmann was responsible for what is now the only extant plan of Grønnegaards Havn and environs as it was in the 17th century. This A D A N G E R O U S N E I G H B O U R H O O D N E W P R O C E S S E S A N D A N E W B A N K R U P T

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