Lungholm is a manor house and estate located on the island of

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in southeastern

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. It has been owned by members of the Lehn family since 1784. The three-winged main building was listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1988. It consists of a main wing from 1856 and two side wings from the 16th or early 17th century.

History

Olstrupgaarde

Lungholm originates in the older estate Olstrupgaarde which is known from 1434 when it was owned by Henning von Hafn. It is not known whether it was a manor house. In circa 1450, it was owned by the nobleman Erik Pors. Half of the estate was in 1455 ceded to Oluf Gøye while the other half after Erik Pors' death was passed on to his three sons Herman, Niels and Hans Pors. Erik Pors' sons little by little sold their share of Olstrupgaarde to Oluf Gøye's son Eskil. His descendants owned Olstrupgaarde for several generations but it was in the middle of the 16th century transferred to the Brahe family through marriage. Olstrupgaarde had at this point been divided into two farms.

The Rosenkrantz and Reventlow, families

Axel Brahe died without heirs in 1613. His widow, Elisabeth Rosensparre, brought Olstrupgaarde into her second marriage with Palle Rosenkrantz. In 1639 Rosenkrantz merged the two estates and land from the small village of Pugerup into a single manor, naming it Lungholm after his third wife, Lisbeth Lunge. He demolished the two old main buildings and constructed a new one at the same site. Lisbeth Lunge managed the estate on behalf of their sons after Rosenkrantz's death in1642. Lungholm remained in the hands of the family for several generations. Count Christian Ditlev Reventlow, one of the largest landowners in the area, acquired Lungholm in 1823. In 1729, he had accumulated enough land to establish the countship of Christiansborg (later Christianssæde).

The Lehn family

In 1784, Lungholm was sold off to baron

Poul Abraham Lehn Poul Abraham Lehn (9 October 1732 – 24 October 1804), Baron of Lehn and Baron of Guldborgland, was a feudal baron of the Danish and Norwegian nobility and one of the greatest landowners of his time in Denmark. Biography His father was Abrah ...

. He was already the owner of Højbygård,

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and Orebygård on Lolland as well as a number of estates on

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. In 1803, Lehn converted Lungholm and the adjacent Højbygård into a so-called under the name Sønderkarle for his daughter, Johanne Frederikke Lehn, whose husband was Frederik Wallmoden of

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. The legal effect of a was that the estate could neither be sold, mortgaged or divided between heirs. After Johanne Lehn's death in 1805, Sønderkarle was passed to her nephew Poul Godske von Bertouch from Søholt. Lungholm

In 1819, Poul Godske von Bertouch was created ''

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'' under the name Bertouch-Lehn and Sønderkarle was at the same time converted into a barony. He married Henriette Margrethe Klauer in 1821 and the couple made Lungholm their new home. Poul Godske Bertouch-Lehn died in 1831 and his wife and daughter were killed in an accident five years later. Their son Johan Julian Sophus Ernst Bertouch-Lehn was only two years old when he succeeded his father as baron of Sønderkarle. He later engaged in several large construction projects on the estate. These included a new main building and he also constructed new dykes and reclaimed new land following the devastating

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. The sale of tenant farms had started in circa 1853. The barony struggled economically in the 1870s. Julian Bertouch-Lehn died in 1905 and was succeeded by his son Poul Abraham Bertouch-Lehn. He expanded the main building. The barony was as a result of ''lensafløsningsloven'' of 1919 dissolved with effect from 1925. Højbygård and Lungholm are still owned by the Bertouch-Lehn family. They were for a while divided between two brothers but have now once again the same owners.

Architecture

The main building consists of a central, two-storey main wing in brick from 1856 flanked by two one-storey side wings from the 16th or early 17th century. The main building was designed by Laurits Albert Winstrup. It was expanded by Henrik Christopher Glahn in 1906.

Today

The current owner of the estate is baron Nicolas de Bertouch-Lehn.

List of owners

* (1434- ) Henning von Hafn * (1450–1474) Erik Pors * (1455–1484) Oluf Henriksen Gøye * (1474- ) Herman Pors * (1474- ) Hans Pors * (1474- ) Niels * (1484–1506) Eskil Gøye * (1506–1544) Mogens Gøye * (1544–1558) Albrecht Gøye * (1558–1560) Margrethe Gøye, gift Brahe * (1560–1610) Peder Brahe * (1610–1613) Axel Brahe * (1613–1622) Elisabeth Rosensparre, gift 1) Brahe og 2) Rosenkrantz * (1622–1642) Palle Rosenkrantz * (1642–1649) Lisbeth Lunge, gift Rosenkrantz * (1649–1660) Jørgen Rosenkrantz * (1660–1681) Erik Rosenkrantz * (1681–1684) Boet efter Erik Rosenkrantz * (1684–1690) Holger Rosenkrantz * (1690–1695) Margrethe Rodsteen, gift 1) Rosenkrantz og 2) Holck * (1695–1701) Flemming Holck * (1701–1711) Margrethe Rodsteen, gift 1) Rosenkrantz og 2) Holck * (1711–1721) Børge Trolle * (1721–1723) Hans Frederik Kaas * (1723–1738) Christian Ditlev Reventlow * (1738–1775) Christian Ditlev Reventlow * (1775–1784) Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow * (1784–1804)

* (1804–1805) Johanne Frederikke Lehn, gift Wallmoden * (1805–1831) Poul Godske von Bertouch-Lehn * (1831–1905) Johan Julian Sophus Ernst Bertouch-Lehn * (1905–1928) Poul Abraham Bertouch-Lehn * (1928–1939) Poul Johan Bertouch-Lehn * (1939–1961) Poul Christian Bertouch-Lehn * (1961–1976) Rudolph Frederik Carl Adam Bertouch-Lehn * (1976–1986) Poul Christian de Bertouch-Lehn * (1986–2011) Eric Rudolph de Bertouch-Lehn * (2011– ) Nicolas de Bertouch-Lehn

References

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