The house takes its name after Frederik Casper Conrad Frieboe who is buried in the grounds together with his wife and a few other family members.

Its most notable former resident is Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz who played an important part in the Rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II.

His daughter Gjertrud Cathrine inherited it in 1794 and after she married rittmeister and later General Frederik Caspar Conrad Frieboe, it was passed on to him.

In 1941, during the German Occupation of Denmark in World War II, it was rented out to Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz.

On 18 August 1943, Frieboeshvile played host to a meeting between Werner Best and the Danish politicians Hans Hedtoft, H. C. Hansen and Alsing Andersen.

[1] Built in the Baroque style, Frieboeshvile is constructed in brick with white dressing and details in sandstone.

These include a grotto which originally afforded access to a now collapsed fruit cellar and an aviary converted into a pavilion.