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59, numbered 343, comprising the western half of the block 42 Residence, but this property had subsequently been found to be lacking sufficient space for the governor's residence, office and office. After Gyllenstjarnas death, they looked for another suitable residence for the governor and found no better than the old Ulfeldt property, which however, must have undergone some renovations"
In annual rent for the new governor's residence, the King and the crown paid under Ascheberg's time to von der Haghen's estate 300 daler silver coin. The property was called from this time "Governor's Garden," later also "General's Garden." From the closed "ground plan" of the property's ground floor, it seems that the property at the time provided ample space. Marshal of the Realm, Rutger von Ascheberg, who was born in Kur-
land on June 2, 1621, was an old cavalry general and participated in the Swedish wars under the command of Weimar, Torstensson, Wrangel, and King Charles Gustav, and later, under King Charles XI's time, in a most successful way, he made his name known in the history of the Scanian and Halland campaigns, stood in high favor with Charles XI, who called Ascheberg his old teacher. But the king also had a reason for this. Asch- eberg regretted his lack of experience in the management of affairs, as he "had made a profession of a soldier." He was an old man, he wrote once to the king, "with a wife and a house full of children, - Ascheberg had
25 children with his wife Maria Eleonora von Busseck, eight of whom were still alive -, deprived of a good part of my strength and exhausted by work, impoverished by goods and estates, and much taken away by the enemy, and also with debt." But the king provided him with assistance for the work and assigned the former Ulfeldt's estate, Torup, to the general governor's salary. In 1686, Ascheberg suggested that in order to acquire better space for himself, the chancellery, and the archive, the King and the crown, who after the Council of State, Sten Bjelke's death in 1684, had become the owner of the aforementioned, previously occupied by the ge- neral governors since the beginning of 1659, Loch's property at Stortor- get, should also purchase the east of it at Stortorget, located between the Chancellery and Adelgatan, the Gyllenpalm's house and combine these two properties into a government residence, where the governor-general could also stay during visits. This proposal appealed to the king, who decided that the Gyllenpalm's house should be purchased for this pur- pose. But the proposal was not realized until the beginning of the 1700s. Instead, some rooms in the aforementioned Gyllenpalm's house were rented for the government's use.
In 1683, Ascheberg obtained the king's permission to build a German church in Malmo and to collect funds throughout the country for this purpose. By the end of 1687, the construction of the church had progres- sed far enough that Ascheberg, with the agreement of the German resi-
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