Lilliendal is a manor house and estate located at Vordingborg in southeastern Denmark . The estate covers approximately 800 hectares of mostly farmland. Lilliendal was established by Hans Gustav Lillienskiold (1727–1796) in the 1760s and later owned by the Knuth family for almost two hundred years from the 1800s to 1994. A relatively small main building from 1765 was expanded in the 1850s and again in 1919.
18-533: Lilliendal was established by Hans Gustav Lillienskiold (1727–1796) in the 1760s. The estate replaced a village called Skuderup which in the 17th century consisted of ten farms and four houses. The largest of the farms, Skuderupgaard, is first mentioned in 1664 when it was owned by Anne Gjordes. It changed hands many times before it was acquired by Hans Gustav Lillienskiold in 1760. The rest of Skuderup had been included in Vordingborg Cavalry District in
36-522: A fideikommis (family trust). On his death, Lilliendal passed to his son Christian Frederik Knuth (1788-1852).. He was succeeded by his own son, Adam Knuth. He expanded the main building. Adam Knuth's son Christopher Knuth was active in politics, sold most of the remaining tenant farms to the tenant farmers as freeholds. The fideikommis was dissolved as a result of the lensaafløsningsloven of 1921. In 1936, Christopher Knuth ceded Lilliendal to his son Christian Knuth. Ulrich Knuth succeeded his father on
54-551: A lawyer in Bergen in 1650 and later held various government commissions. He was County Governor of Bergenhus len (1667-1669) and Mayor of Bergen (1679-1681). Hans Hansen Smidt was ennobled with the surname Lillienschiold in 1676. He became quite wealthy and owned various properties including Losna-ætta on Losna in Sogn and part of Giskegodset in Sunnmøre . His family also became related to
72-520: The Lutheran Church of Norway. In 1536, North Norway was added to the len of Bergenhus but the len still had about 30 sub-divisions. In 1560, they were: They covered the areas of the modern Vestland county (previously Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane ). Trondheim and North Norway were still parts of the Bergenhus len. Since then, the number of the len's sub-divisions was gradually reduced as
90-426: The 1710s, which was now divided into 12 estates and sold in auction. The auction took place at Vordingvorg Castle on 27 September. Two of these estates, Skuderup and Høvdingsgaard, were acquired by Lillienskiold. He then merged Skuderupgaard and Skuderup under the name Lilliendal. Hans Gustav Lillienskiold was a naval officer. His maternal grandfather, Hans Hansen Smed (Schmidt)(1650-1703) had been ennobled under
108-1046: The Danish-Norwegian Counsellor in Stockholm . In 1673, Lilienskiold was appointed deputy judge of the Bergen District Court and the Gulating Court of Appeal (1673-1684). After the death of his father in 1681, Lilienskiold acquired the farm Hop on Askøy and farm Sletten in Lindås . He served as County Governor of Finnmark from 1684. He was appointed district governor of Møre og Romsdal in 1702 never to accede because of illness. He died on January 12, 1703, in Copenhagen . Lilienskiold wrote two volumes of travel records from his journey through Europe, two volumes of general history and three volumes of topographical and cultural depictions of Finnmark. His most notable work
126-481: The Lilliendal estate in 1950. In 1984, he sold the estate to Ted Kallehave in 1984. As oart of the contract, he lived there until his death in 2002. The core of the main building was built for Hans Gustav Lillienskiold in 1765. It was a yellow, single-story Empire-style building. It was adapted in the beginning of the 19th century and underwent major alterations after being taken over by Adam Knuth in 1852. He lengthened
144-534: The Skuderupgaard estate in 1768. Lilienskiold was later married again two times, first to Mette Cathrine de Cederfeld and then to Sophie Charlotte von Helzen. In 1785 Lillienskiold sold Lilliendal to Niels Lunde Reiersen (1742-95), a wealthy merchant from Copenhagen , who already owned Nysø , Jungshoved and Oremandsgaard . Reiersen died unmarried in 1795. Lilliendal and Høvdingsgaard was then sold at auction to State Prosecutor General Peter Uldall. His intention
162-412: The beginning of the 16th century the political divisions were variable but, since 1503, there were four main slottslen (castle provinces), each with about 30 smaller sub-divisions. They were: Until 1660, their headquarters were, respectively, Akershus Fortress , Bohus Fortress , Bergenhus Fortress and the fortified city of Trondheim. The sub-divisions corresponded to the present church districts of
180-452: The building and added an extra floor, the roof was replaced by a more shallow, half hipped tile roof and the facade was decorated with robust cornices and triangular pediments above the windows on the second floor. The facade towards the garden features a median risalit with veranda topped by a triangular pediment. The building was again lengthened in 1919. Hans Hansen Lilienskiold Hans Hansen Lilienskiold (c.1650 – 1703)
198-453: The noble family Svanenhielm through the marriage of his granddaughter Cecilia Christine Lillienschiold (1687-1749) to Morten de Svanenhielm (1690-1749) of Svanøy . Hans Hansen Lilienskiold was enrolled at the University of Copenhagen in 1668. Later he toured various cities including Leipzig , Rome , and Paris on a journey lasting three and a half years. In 1672, he became a secretary at
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#1733092563739216-536: The provincial and national administrations both became more stable. By 1660, Bergenhus was one of Norway's nine main len , each with 17 sub-divisions. On 19 February 1662, by royal decree, all the len , including Bergenhus, were renamed as amt (plural amt ), and their lenmann were recast as the amtmann , both from Amt , the German word for "office", reflecting the bias of the Danish court of that year. In 1671, Norway
234-546: The surname Lillienskiold in 1776. He had met his first wife in lisabeth Sophie Charlotte de Malleville (1740–1768) the Danish West Indies . She was the daughter of planter Jean de Malleville and the younger sister of army officer and later Governor-General of the Danish West Indies Thomas de Malleville . It was this marriage that had provided him with the economic means to purchase the estates. His wife died on
252-727: Was a Norwegian jurist, government official, civil servant, and land owner. He was a member of the Lilienskiold noble family and served as County Governor of Finnmark . He is particularly remembered as an author for his works on the topography and culture of Finnmark . Lilienskiold was born in Bergen , Norway. He was the eldest of six in the family of Hans Hansen (Smidt) Lillienskiold (ca. 1610–1681) and Margrethe Jonasdatter (ca. 1624–1654). Hans Hansen Smidt had been born in Tønder, Denmark . He became
270-451: Was changed to an amt (district) in 1662 but it kept its original name and capital until 1919. Formerly, in Norway, the term len (plural len ) represents an administrative region whose borders roughly match those of the counties of today. It was an essential part of the national administration during the years when the two kingdoms of Denmark and Norway were united as a single kingdom. At
288-541: Was divided once more, this time into four principal amt or stiftsamt and nine subordinate amt . Bergenhus amt was the stiftsamt and its subordinate amt were Halsnøy klostergods , Hardanger amt and Nordlandene amt . In 1763, Bergenhus was divided in two, creating the following amt – Nordre Bergenhus amt and Søndre Bergenhus amt . In 1919, Nordre Bergenhus amt was renamed as Sogn og Fjordane fylke (county) and Søndre Bergenhus amt became Hordaland fylke , and each of their amtmann were retitled as
306-640: Was titled Speculum Boreale (1699) which contained an early historical description of the Sami residents of Finnmark. The work also contained colored ink and watercolor drawings of landscapes, towns and people in the county. Bergenhus len Bergenhus len was an administrative division of the Kingdom of Norway that existed from 1503 to 1662, with the Bergenhus Fortress in Bergen as its administrative center Norwegian administrative division. The len
324-414: Was to establish a barony for his son but it had still not been realized when he died in 1798. Two years later his widow, Antoinette Hansen, sold Lilliendal to Thomas Bech. Adam Christopher Knuth (1755–1844) bought Lilliendal from Thomas Bech in 1802. Knuth was the first Baron of Christiansdal on Lolland . In 1704 he was granted royal permission to dissolve the barony and in 1821 to convert Lilliendal into
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