Strandegaard is a manor house and estate located in

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. The estate was acquired by

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and two sisters in 1631 and is still owned by the Thott/Reedtz-Thott family. It is managed as an organic farm and other activities include Feddet Beach Camping & Resort.

History

Early history

Strandegård Manor was established by Axel Sehested in 1662 at the site where the village of Fiskerhoved had until then been located. The area had until then belonged to the Crown but was by Frederick III presented to Sehested after the

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. Sehested later that same year sold the estate to a merchant from Copenhagen named Hans Pedersen Klein. Petersen Klein's widow Magdalene Mogensdatter was after her husband's death second time married to Ernst Volcher. In 1686, Magdalene Mogensdatter sold Strandegård to merchant Peder Jensen. His widow, Kirsten Ellen Andersdatter, kept the estate until her death in 1707. Strandegaard was then sold in public auction to Christian Juel. His widow, Anne Margrethe Krag, kept the estate after her husband's death in 1717, In 1731, after struggling economically for years, like many other landowners of the time, she had to sell Strandegaard.

Thott family

The new owners were

and his sisters Dorothea and Anne Thott. Otto Thott was already the owner of the estates

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and

Lindersvold Lindersvold is a former manor house and estate located just north of Præstø Fjord, Faxe Municipality, some fifty kilometres south of Copenhagen, Denmark. The estate was founded by Christoffer Lindenov and remained in the hands of the Lindenoc f ...

. Dorothea Thott passed away in 1738 and Otto Thott bought Anne Thott in 1740. Otto Thott had no children. In his will of 1780, he converted his estates into a ''stamhus'' for his maternal uncle's grandson, Holger Reedtz, who in 1786 took the name Reedtz-Thott. The legal effect of a ''stamhus'' was that the estate could not be pledged, sold or divided between heirs. In 1805, Otto Reedtz-Thott was able to establish the Barony of Gavnø from the estates. His son,

Tage Reedtz-Thott Kjeld Thor Tage Otto, Friherre Reedtz-Thott (13 March 1839 – 27 November 1923), was a Danish politician, landowner and member of the Højre political party. He was Council President of Denmark from 1894 to 1897 as the leader of the Ree ...

, succeeded his father in 1862. He was active in politics and served as Council President from 1785 to 1786. The barony was dissolved in 1921. This happened in accordance with the ''lensafløsningslov'' of 1919. Tage Reedtz-Thott's son. Otto Reedtz-Thott, succeeded his father in 1923 but already died in 1927. He had no children and Strandegård was therefore passed to a cousin, Holger Reedtz-Thott, while another cousin's son, Axel Reedtz-Thott, received Gavnø. Holger Reedtz-Thott had no children and therefore left Strandegård to Axel Reedtz-Thott. Axel Reedtz-Thott ceded Strandegård to his youngest son Ivan Reedtz-Thott in 1978. His eldest son, His elder son, Otto Reedtz-Thott, had succeeded him on Gavnø in 1973.

Today

The estate has a total area of approximately 1,300 hectares of which just over half is farmland and the rest is forest and other natural habitats. Strandegaard is managed as an organic farm. Other activities include Feddet Beach Camping & Resort. A project under

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's Manor Houses of the Future programme has worked with realizing new synergies between the organic farm and the hospitality-related activities.

List of owners

* (1662) Axel Sehested * (1662-1667) Hans Pedersen Klein * (1667-1671) Magdalene Mogensdatter, gift 1) Klein 2) Volcher * (1671-1683) Jokum Ernst Volcher * (1683-1686) Magdalene Mogensdatter, gift 1) Klein 2) Volcher * (1686-1699) Peder Jensen * (1699-1707) Kirsten Ellen Andersdatter, gift Jensen * (1707-1717) Christian Juel * (1717-1731) Anne Margrethe Krag, gift Juel * (1731-1738) Dorothea Thott * (1731-1740) Anne Thott * (1731-1785)

* (1785-1797) Holger Reedtz-Thott * (1797-1862) Otto Reedtz-Thott * (1862-1923)

* (1923-1927) Otto Reedtz-Thott * (1927-1941) Holger Reedtz-Thott * (1941-1978) Axel Reedtz-Thott * (1978- ) Ivan Reedtz-Thott

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{{Faxe Municipality Manor houses in Faxe Municipality Buildings and structures of the Reedtz family Buildings and structures of the Thott family