Kongsdal

Kongsdal /1280ndash]]1661: Tygestrup) is a manor house and estate located approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) southwest of Holbaek, between Undløse and Mørkøv, Holbæk Municipality, some 60 km west of Copenhagen, Denmark.

The estate traces its history back to the late 12 century when Sorø Abbey established a home farm (ladegård) named Undløse at the site.

[1] In 1205, Sorø Abbey returned Undløse to the Hvide family in exchange for Pedersborg on Lolland.

Redtz had come to Denmark at the outbreak of the Northern Seven Years' War where he had won the favour of the king.

His son, Peder Reedtz, who inherited the estate in 1659, spent most of his time at the royal court in Copenhagen.

After Frederick III's death, Kongsdal passed to his son George, Prince of Denmark, who shortly thereafter ceded it to Christopher Parsberg in exchange for Jungshoved.

The rest of the estate was after his death sold in public auction to Valdemar Gabel.

His son, Niels Lassen, continued his father's work but was hit by the difficult times.

In 1835, Kongsdal was sold for 130,000 Danish rigsdaler to Hector Frederik Janson Estrup, the director of Sorø Academy, who had just married Anna Christine Scavenius.

He preferred Skaføgård in Jutland as his primary country residence and Kongsdal was instead used as a dower house for his mother.

[2] Kongsdal farm house is located in the Holbæk Municipality of Region Zealand.

Kongsdal, 1860