In 1746, Queen Sophie Magdalene ceded it to Christian August von Berckentin, a German count in Danish service.

He commissioned Johann Gottfried Rosenberg to build a summer retreat at the site, a one-storey house with a Mansard roof, which he referred to as Landhaus Cockedahl.

He had recently returned from Hong Kong where he had led the company John Burd & Co and been Danish consul since 1855.

[1] In 1963, Hørsholm Municipality acquired the estate from Peter Møller Christensen, founder of Fahls Varehus in Copenhagen.

In 1993, Hørsholm Municipality sold the property to a private investor on condition that it be converted into a hotel and restaurant.