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[3] Monica Emily Wichfeld (née Massey-Beresford), who was from Ulster in the north of Ireland and who married Jørgen Adalbert Wichfeld in 1916, was impressed with the forty-roomed mansion, the surrounding buildings, the long driveway lined with limes and elms, and the terraces leading from the house down to the lake below.

[4] The estate cottage and grounds was used in co-operation with Monica Wichfeld during the Danish Resistance in the Second World War to harbour fugitives, to shelter Jewish families hiding from the Gestapo, to train saboteurs and hide weapons, ammunition and explosives and organize the movement.

It was also used as a covert landing ground for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) deliveries of paratroopers, information, weapons and explosives.

Jørgen Adalbert Wichfeld died in 1965 and the estate was inherited by his son Viggo Dimitri who renovated it completely.

Sadly, Viggo ran into financial difficulties and was forced to sell the estate to William Erik Berntsen, owner of Frederikssund Iron Foundry and Machine Factory.