Christian Ditlev Lunn, manager of Einsidelsborg on Funen, was in 1745 able to buy Knabstrup Manor at Holbæk.
He constructed Dorothealyst as a downer house for his wife.
[2] The property never came to serve its intended purpose since Lunn in spite of the age difference outlived his wife.
Lunn instead lived in the house himself after passing Knabstrup on to his their son Villars.
[3] The estate is owned by the artist Marianne Seidenfaden and her family.