Nybøllegård is a 19th-century cottage situated southwest of
Stege, on the island of
Møn
Møn () is an island in south-eastern Denmark. Until 1 January 2007, it was a municipality in its own right but it is now part of the municipality of Vordingborg, after merging with the former municipalities of Langebæk, Præstø, and Vordingbo ...
, in southeastern Denmark. It was designed by the architect
Gottlieb Bindesbøll for
Hother Hage
Edvard Philip Hother Hage (born 9 January 1816 in Stege, and deceased on 9 February 1873 in Møn) was a Danish politician and lawyer.
Biography
Hother Hage was the son of Christopher Friedenreich Hage and Arnette Christiane Just and was thus ...
in 1856. It was listed in the
Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1972.
History
Christopher Friedenreich Hage
Christopher Friedenreich Hage (19 July 1759 – 15 August 1849), was a Denmark, Danish merchant on the island of Møn. He was the father of Alfred Hage (1803–1872), Alfred Hage, Hother Hage, Johannes Dam Hage and Bolette Puggaard, Bolette H ...
was one of the wealthiest merchants on the island of Møn. His son
Hother Hage
Edvard Philip Hother Hage (born 9 January 1816 in Stege, and deceased on 9 February 1873 in Møn) was a Danish politician and lawyer.
Biography
Hother Hage was the son of Christopher Friedenreich Hage and Arnette Christiane Just and was thus ...
pursued a career as a lawyer and politician in Copenhagen.
In 1853, Hother Hage purchased the Marielyst Mansion at Stege. On 20 June 1856, Hother Hage married Emmy Tutein, daughter of
Peter Adolph Tutein, at
Marienborg Manor
Marienborg Manor is an estate on the Danish island of Møn. The estate has a large park with public access. The main building was demolished in 1984. The estate, covering , contains the thatched tenant farm of Egeløkke. Manorial records exist f ...
.
Around the same time, Hage had charged the architect
Gottlieb Bindesbøll with the design of a new house. Bindesbøll had completed Stege's new town hall a few years prior. Another source of inspiration for the choice of Bindesbøll as architect may have been
Hans Puggaard's cottage
Krathuset in
Ordrup
Ordrup is a district of Gentofte Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located circa north of the city centre.
History
Ordrup was originally a small village which only consisted of eight farms and a forge. The area ...
. Puggaard was married to Hage's sister
Bolette Hage (1798–1847). Krathuset was commissioned by Puggaard from Bindesbøll as a gift to their children, one of whom was married to the politician
Orla Lehmann. Hage, Puggaard and Lehmann belonged to the same National Liberal circles.
In 1859, Hage was appointed as bailiff of Stege () as well as of Møn Herred (). In 1868, he was granted royal permission to rename his property Nøbøllegård (later changed to Nybøllegård). The name is derived from the name of the nearby settlement of Nybølle.
Hage's already fragile health was weakened by his many outdoor duties following the
1872 Baltic Sea flood
The 1872 Baltic Sea flood (german: Ostseesturmhochwasser 1872), often referred to as a storm flood, ravaged the Baltic Sea coast from Denmark to Pomerania, also affecting Sweden, during the night between 12 and 13 November 1872 and was, until the ...
. He died at Nybøllegård on 9 February 1873. His widow married
Ditlev Gothard Monrad
Ditlev Gothard Monrad (24 November 1811 – 28 March 1887) was a Danish politician and bishop, and a founding father of Danish constitutional democracy; he also led the country as Council President in its huge defeat during the Second Schles ...
.
Anders Peter Andersen, a lieutenant and architect, resided at Nybøllegård at the time of the 1880 census. He lived there with his wife Christiane (née Frederiksen) and their two children.
The building was remodeled in around 1900 and again in 1960. It has since 1999 been subject to comprehensive restoration work.
Architecture
The building is one of Bindesbøll's six so-called "cottages". It is a rectangular, single-storey building constructed on a foundation of boulders, with a broad lower band of red brick and yellow brick on the upper part of the ground floor. The garden side features an
avant-corps
An ''avant-corps'' ( it, avancorpo or , plural , german: Risalit, pl, ryzalit), a French term literally meaning "fore-body", is a part of a building, such as a porch or pavilion, that juts out from the ''corps de logis'', often taller than othe ...
with a gabled dormer window. The south gable of the building features a veranda and a balcony. The
quarter-hipped roof with ornamental
Bargeboars was originally thatched. It was later replaced with wooden shingles and now with roofing felt.
The ground floor interiors were decorated by
Georg Hilker
Georg Hilker (5 June 1807 – 13 January 1875) was a Danish decorative painter active during the Danish Golden Age in the first half of the 19th century. He collaborated with painter Constantin Hansen (1804–1880).
Early life and career
Hilk ...
in
Pompeian Styles.
Today
Nybøllegård is today owned by Thomas Christfort, a former conservative MP and current member of Vordingborg Municipal Council, who is also the owner of Overgård Manor in Jutland. He has established a storage facility for grain on the property. In 2016, he ceded the management of the company to his son Helge Christfort.
References
External links
Tenderingsat the
Danish National Art Library
The Danish National Art Library is the national research library for architecture, art history, visual arts and museology in Denmark. It was founded in 1754 as part of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and has been located at Charlottenborg' ...
Nybøllegård, Stege from Trap Danmarkwith illustrations (in Danish)
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Listed buildings and structures in Vordingborg Municipality
Listed houses in Denmark
Møn
Buildings and structures of the Hage family
Houses completed in 1856
Gottlieb Bindesbøll buildings