Rosenfeldt Manor is a

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and estate located just west of

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, some 90 km south of

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. One of 12 new manors created when Vordingborg Cacalry District was dissolved in 1774, its first owner was

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. The current main building was constructed for Oscar O'Neill Oxholm in 1870 to a design by Henrik Steffens Sibbern.

History

Iselin family

The estate was founded by Baron Reinhard von Iselin, a prosperous, Swiss-born merchant and

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from Copenhagen, who acquired the land in 1774 when the Crown sold Vordingborg Cavalry District in auction. From 1776 to 1777 he constructed a large farm complex around an octagonal courtyard with the assistance of the architect

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. Iselin's daughter, Anna Elizabeth, inherited Rosenfeldt in 1781. In 1777 she had married the French-born nobleman

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who was appointed prefect of

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in 1783 where he owned Marienborg and founded the

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estate, which he named after his wife.

Changing owners, 18031844

In 1803, Jens Lind purchased Rosenfeldt and the other Iselin estates. Later in the same year, he sold Rosenfeldt to Frederik Hoppe. In 1805, Hoppe sold the estate to Rasmus Lange (1777–1848) and Frederik Ludvig Hastrup for 300,000 rigsdaler. He later purchased Løvegård and Søbygaard near

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. In 1809, Lange sold his share of the estate to Hastrup and bought Ørbæklunde from his father. After the death of his first wife, Hastrup was married to Anna Elisabeth née Hegelund, 34 years his junior, with whom he had two daughters. In 1844, he sold the estate and moved to Copenhagen. The family was based in an apartment in

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at the time of the 1845 census.

Oxholm family

In 1844 the estate was acquired by captain, general-major Oscar O'Neill Oxholm. He lived on the estate with his Irish wife Adelaide Maria O'Kelly. Oxholm constructed the new main building, two farm buildings and 20 tenant farms. Designed by Henrik Steffens Sibbern, the main building was built from 1868 to 1870.

Architecture

Rosenfeldt's buildings are arranged around seven of eight sides of Zuber's octagonal courtyard, a layout which is reminiscent of that of

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in Copenhagen. Zuber's original farm complex consists of four low pavilions and two tall stable buildings in Neoclassical style. The plan also reserved a site for the main building which was not built until 1870. Sibbern's main building is constructed in red brick and designed in a

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style. It consists of a two-story main wing with a tower flanked by two short lateral wings.

Rosenfeldt Manor today

Rosenfeldt Manor is owned by Peter Oxholm Tillisch. It covers 2,313 hectares (1998).

List of owners

* (–1774) The Crown * (1774–1781)

* (1781–1781) Anna Elisabeth 1) Iselin, 2) Classen,

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Fabritius-Tengnagel * (1781–1803) P.G.A. Bosc de la Calmette * (1803) Jens Lind * (1803–1805) Frederik Hoppe * (1805–1809) Rasmus Lange * (1805–1844) Frederik Ludvig Hastrup * (1844–1871) Oscar O'Neill Oxholm * (1871–1882) Adelaide Maria Oxholm

O'Kelly * (1882–1914) Carl Arthur George O'Neill Oxholm * (1914–1935) Sophie Marguerite Oxholm née Bech * (1935–1949) Oscar O'Neill Oxholm * (1949–1991) Elsa S.S. Tillisch née Oxholm * (1991–present) Oscar Peter Oxholm Tillisch

References

External links

Official website

Architectural renderings
in the

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Rosenfeldt Gods
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