Framille is a listed house located on the Main Street in

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, opposite Lyngby Church, in the northern suburbs of

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. The building is today part of Lyngby Library and is connected to the main library building by a glazed corridor in its north gable.

History

The property traces its history back to 1748 when the French envoy in Copenhagen, Abbé Lemaire, constructed a country site next to Lyngby Church. It was located on rented land and belonged to the land owner

Jean Henri Desmercières Jean Henri Desmercières (8 May 1687 – 8 March 1778) was a French-Danish merchant, banker and major landowner in Holstein where he reclaimed large areas along the North Sea coast. Early life Born in Paris, Desmercières was the illegitimate ...

after Lemaire was called back to France in 1753. He sold it to the merchant

Reinhard Iselin Reinhard Iselin (4 August 1714 – 10 April 1781) was a Danish merchant, shipowner and industrialist who founded Reinhard Iselin & Co. in Copenhagen in 1749. The company completed 65 expeditions to the Danish West Indies. Iselin was also active in ...

in 1757. The property was 1767 purchased by the printmaker and later professor at the

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Johan Martin Preisler. He belonged to "Bernstorffsk'e Circle", a group of German civil servants, writers and artists associated with the influential

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (german: Johann Hartwig Ernst Graf von Bernstorff; 13 May 1712 – 18 February 1772) was a German-Danish statesman and a member of the Bernstorff noble family of Mecklenburg. He was the son of Joachim ...

. The group met at Preisler's house in Lyngby in the summer time from 1761. The most notable member of the group was the poet

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (; 2 July 1724 – 14 March 1803) was a German poet. His best known work is the epic poem ''Der Messias'' ("The Messiah"). One of his major contributions to German literature was to open it up to exploration outside ...

who lived in Denmark from 1751 to 1770. A great lover of nature, he went for walks in the surrounding countryside in the summer time and ice skated on Lyngby Lake in winter. Klopstock's Oak at Prinsessestien is named after him. From 1754 to 1758, Klopstock lived with his wife Meta in Lyngby during the summer months, probably together with his brother August who managed a silk factory founded by Klopstock 's friend Hermann Rahn at a site just north of the church in 1752. After his wife's death in childbirth in 1758, Klopstock no longer spend his summers in Lyngy but he was still a frequent visitor in Preisler's house until 1770. Another member of the circle was the German court pastor Johan Andreas Cramer who owned a country house at nearby Stades Krog from 1756 to 1768. Friedrich Gabriel Resewitz, who was pastor at the German church in Copenhagen, owned Jægergården at Prinsessestien from 1769 to 1773. When J. H. E. Bernstorff was fired by Struense in 1770 and left Denmark, the circle slowly disintegrated but Preisler owned the house in Lyngby for another 20 years. His guests included the German priest Balthasar Münter, who visited him together with his daughter Friederike, the later wife of

Constantin Brun Johan Christian Constantin Brun (27 November 1746 – 19 February 1836) was a German-Danish merchant. Born in Germany, came to Denmark as Royal administrator of the trade on the Danish West Indies and in the same time built a successful private tra ...

and a well-known salonist at

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. The house was acquired by Hother Müffelmann in 1875. He introduced the current name which refers to a farm in

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that he leased. The building was acquired by Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in 1955 and housed Lyngby Library's department of music from 1963.

Today

Lyngby Library's music department moved out in 2004 and the building has since then been used as office space and for meetings and teaching purposes.

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* {{Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality Houses in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality Listed buildings and structures in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality Listed houses in Copenhagen Listed residential buildings in Copenhagen

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