When Ingeborg Ludvigsdatter was born on 2 November 1729, in Magleby, Tryggevælde, Denmark, her father, Lodvig Jeppeson, was 25 and her mother, Ellen Olsen, was 39. She married Hans Hansen Flensborg on 24 April 1748. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 28 March 1810, at the age of 80.
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The Danish Asiatic Company was a trading company established to revive the dwindling Danish trade with the East Indies and China. It was taken over by the Danish government in 1772 and continued to run until around 1843.
Meyercrones Stiftelse was founded by the widow of Henning de Meyercrone after he had served as Danish envoy in France. Christiane Meyercrone, Henning's widow, managed the property until her death in 1738. Her niece became the new manager of the foundation and arranged for its charter to be written in 1830. The original, small building was replaced by a larger building in 1933.
The Old City Hall was built in 1762 and served as the city hall until 1912. the Hall was modelled after the City Hall that was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire in 1795. Today the building is used only for ceremonial and representative purposes.
From an Old Norse personal name from the name of the fertility god Ing + borg ‘fortification’.
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