Magleås is a

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near

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in northern

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. It is located in Rudersdal Municipality in the

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, 25 km. outside

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. The mansion includes 8

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park, and borders on the Rude Forest (''Rude Skov''). It also includes

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s and a caretaker's house. It was built in 1910 for businessman Aage Westenholz (1859–1935), an uncle of

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who was a co-owner and chairman of the board of her coffee farm (Karen Coffee Company Ltd.). He had previously made a fortune as a businessman in Asia. The main building, with its 50 rooms, was designed by the Westenholz' brother-in-law, the architect

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, in a neo-baroque style. In 1910, the Westenholz family moved in with a large staff. The nearby mansion Aasebakken was also designed by Torben Grut and built for land-owner Lennart Grut.

History

In 1942, Magleås was bought by papal chamberlain and count

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, who had sold his estate

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in Sweden in 1938 to a relative and who died in 1943. Magleås was inherited by

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, who sold the property in 1945 to the Catholic Church in Denmark. For some years, it was used as a college, but today it serves as a conference hotel as well as representative purposes for the Catholic Church in Denmark. Since 1942, nearby Aasebakken has served as a Catholic monastery, named ''Vor Frue Kloster''.

Architecture

References

Literature

*Ingelise Schmidt og Tormod Hessel: ''Magleås og Åsebakken. Mennesker og begivenheder''. Birkerød, Birkerød Lokalhistoriske Forening, 2012, 131 s., . *Niels Peter Johansen, «Livet på Magleås og Åsebakken», i ''Birkerød Lokalhistorie'', vol. 3, nr. 4, 1992, s. 3–5 *Tormod Hessel, «Magleås og Åsebakken : fra patricierejendomme til højskole og kloster», i ''Birkerød Lokalhistorie'', vol. 3, nr. 4, 1992, s. 6–7

External links

Magleås kursuscenter
{{DEFAULTSORT:Magleas Houses in Rudersdal Municipality