Page 19 - Hotel Tunnel's 100 Years of History

Fourteen days later, or on the 30th of the same month, through her afore- mentioned representative, Bent Skaning, Mrs. Christenze Nielsdotter sold the same property to the cloth merchant, and from 1582, city councilman and from 1584, the mayor, Jacob Fechtell, the grandson of former mint master Povel Fechtell in Copenhagen. Mayor Jacob Fechtell was the son
of cloth merchant Hans Povelsen Fechtel!, who died in 1554, and Mette Jacobsdotter, daughter of city councilman Jacob Nielsen goldsmith and re- married to city councilman Peder Knutsen. Jacob Fechtell's mother Mette died before 1571 and his stepfather in the beginning of 1582: His brother Hans died before 1562 and his sister Marine Povelsdotter Fechtell married merchant, mayor Jacob Moller, who died in 1598.
Through inheritance, probably after his grandmother, mint master Povel Fechtell's wife - Povel Fechtell died in the 1590s - cloth merchant Jacob Fechtell became the owner of the previously mentioned "high warehouses" at Adelgatan in 1580. He probably lived in the old Harckeska corner house with his wife Gesche Willumsdotter for several years and ran a significant cloth trade from the warehouses. After acquiring the property of former Jacob Michelsen's stone house garden in 1581, Jacob Fechtell now owned properties under the old numbers 353 and 352, corresponding to numbers 11 at the corner of Adel- and Kansligatorna and the eastern and larger part of Kyrkogatan (and Kansligatan) in block 43 Svanen. Jacob Fechtell, who was a very wealthy man, had the old, outdated warehouses demolished in 1582, the same year he became a city councilman, and with the preserva- tion of the old strongly built cellars from 1319, from the stair gable house's boundary and up to the street corner using the street space purchased
in 1527, he built the current two-story building with its high street stairs and elegant garden portal of sandstone. In this house, Jacob Fechtell had his residence and ran his cloth trade, from 1601-1606 in partnership with his previous business associate, the German-born cloth merchant Povel Minnemand.
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