Toldboden, Toldbodgade 1 (along with the listed “Lybækkerlænge”, Grønnegade 2) is one of the oldest houses in Rønne.
It was built in 1684 to serve as the king’s warehouse and served as the Danish Navy’s warehouse for provisions in the Baltic Sea.
The thick oak timbers in the building’s 29 half-timbered bays were squared and trimmed at the Holmen naval base in Copenhagen and shipped to Rønne.
The plank doors on Toldbodgade are “believed” to have originated from Hammershus Castle, from where large quantities of building materials were removed in the 1700s.
Toldboden served its original purpose up to 1897.
An old figurehead taken from a ship and known as “Satan between two barking hell-hounds” sits atop the wall next to gable of the house facing the harbour.
The figurehead is immortalised in the novel Pelle the Conqueror (by Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø) for frightening eight-year-old Pelle when he arrives in Rønne.

Toldboden

Lybækkerlænge