Erichsens Gård

Erichsens Gård is Rønne's best kept commoner's house and is now part of the Bornholm Museum.

Erichsens Gård was built in 1806 and expanded in the 1830s and 1840s. It was Henning Pedersen, who drew Rønne Præstegård and the old city hall on Rønne's Store Torv, who lived there between 1816 and 1837.

Erichsens Gård is named after the next owner, Thomas Erichsen. He moved to Bornholm in 1832 and bought this house in 1838 and married Michelle Westh in the same year. They had 12 children.

One of them, Vilhelmine Erichsen (1852–1935), became Kristian Zahrtmann's muse. He painted her when she was fourteen years old. This painting is part of the Bornholms Kunstmuseum's collection. In 1871 Vilhemine married Zahrtmann's friend Holger Drachmann in Gentofte church. Erichsens Gård still houses much of the memories from these three artists.

'Erichsens Gård became protected in 1919 and was sold on February 15, 1950, by Elena Erichsen to the Bornholm Museum.

Sources

• Knudsen, Ann Vibeke (1990) Erichsens Gård i Rønne - Publisher: Bornholms Museum - Rønne - ISBN 87-88179-22-2 - Retrieved: 22. August 2011

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  Erichsens Gård
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  Vilhelmine Erichsen og Holger Drachmann.
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  Vilhelmine Erichsens familie. Børnene af Thomas Erichsen og Michelle Westh voksede op her.
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  Vilhelmine Erichsen (her er hun fjorten år gammel) blev her malet af Kristian Zahrtmann.
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  Erichsens Gård - Gårdspladsen og bagsiden af huset.