Idagaard is a manor house and estate located immediately south of

Slagelse Slagelse () is a town on Zealand, Denmark. The town is the seat of Slagelse Municipality, and is the biggest town of the municipality. It is located 15 km east of Korsør, 16 km north-east of Skælskør, 33 km south-east of Kalundborg and 14 km ...

, Denmark. The estate was created by the businessman

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from land that had previously belonged to

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and is named after his daughter

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. It is now owned by the Idagaard Foundation.

History

Early owners, 17971810

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. He imported several families from

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and established a production of

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which was mainly exported to overseas markets. He also modernized the management with the introduction of chopping and threshing machines. Bruun was married to

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, a leading

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of her time. Bruun created four small estates from part of the land that had previously belonged to Antvorskov Hovedgård, naming them Idagaard,

Charlottendal Charlottendal is a historic building and estate situated south of Slagelse, Denmark. Created by Constantin Brun in 1799, it is today part of Antvorskov barracks, Antvorskov Barracks. History Early owners, 17971810 Antvorskov Hovedgård was in 17 ...

, Augustendal and Karlsgaard after his children. Idagaard was thus named after his daughter Ida Bruun.

Changing owners, 18061018

In 1806 Bruun sold all the estates to Adam Wilhelm Hauch and Marcus Frederik Voigt. They immediately began to sell them to different buyers. Idagaard was acquired by Ole Rasmussen Schou. In the 1830s, it was acquired by L. Trolle. The next owners was William Courtonne Mourier)18061896), whose father, Charles Adolph Denys Mourier, owned Hindemae on Gunen. His grandfahter,

Pierre Paul Ferdinand Mourier Pierre Paul Mourier (5 August 1746 30 December 1836) was a Danish Asiatic Company trader who spent 15 years in Canton. He created a Danish-Chinese dictionary of more than 10,000 works. He owned Aagaard from 1787 to 1896. Early life and educatio ...

, who had made a fortune in the service of the

Danish Asiatic Company Danish Asiatic Company ( Danish: Asiatisk Kompagni) was a Danish trading company established in 1730 to revive Danish trade on the Danish East Indies and China following the closure of the Danish East India Company. It was granted a 40-year mon ...

, had owned Aaagaard at

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Hvid and the Idagaard Foundation

In 1918, Idagaard was acquired by Jens Hvidberg. He and his wife owned the estate for more than 30 years. In 1941, they established the Idagaard Foundation. In 1963, Idagaard acquired 220 (

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) of land from Charlottendal. Charlottendal had been expropriated by the Danish state in conjunction with the establishment of

Antvorskov Barracks Antvorskov barracks is a barracks located near Slagelse in Denmark. It was established in 1969 and currently houses the 2nd Brigade and the Guard Hussar Regiment including its mounted squadron. The latter was moved here from Næstved Kaserne in ...

. Charlottendal's former owner, D. F. de Neergaard, who also owned Valdemarskilde, acquired 100 ' of forest from Idagaard as part of the arrangement. Much of the original Idagaard estate waslater sold off for urban redevelopment. Most of the land that remains is therefore the land that previously belonged to Charlottendal (and before that to Augustadal).

Architecture

The main building is from 1880. It is a single-storey, white-plastered building with a half-hipped roof clad in red tile.

Today

Idagaard is one of four estates owned by the Idagaard Foundation. The three others are Lerchenfeld in Vedbynørre (acquired in 2013), Saxbroholm (acquired in 2016) and Skelbækgården (acquired 2019). The land is managed by the owner of Svendsholm.

List of owners

* (1799–1806)

* (1806– ) Adam Wilhelm Hauch * (1806– ) Marcus Frederik Voigt * ( –1835) Ole Rasmussen Schou * (1835– ) L. Trolle * ( – ) William C. Mourier * ( –1878) L. T. Schultz * (1878– ) S. Spandet * ( –1918) E. V. J. Spandet née Neergaard * (1918–1941) Jens Hvidberg * (1941– ) Idagaard Foundation

References

{{Slagelse Municipality Manor houses in Slagelse Municipality