Lundbygård

Lundbygård is a manor house and estate located in Lundby, Vordingborg Municipality, in the southeastern part of Denmark.

Its current owner is former Danish Defence Minister Bernt Johan Collet.

His grandson, Knud Steensen, sold it to a widow, Anne Nielsdatter Lunge, who ceded it to the Crown in exchange for Kronen in 1577.

In 1661, Svend Poulsen was granted it for life in appreciation of his role in the Swedish Wars and five years later he received it as his personal property.

[1] In 1686, Lundbygård was acquired by Johan Henrik Schmidt, who was ritmester at the National Regiment on Zealand.

In 1804, he had moved from Drammen in Norway to Copenhagen where he ran a major timber trading company.

The couple had no children and she, therefore, left it to her nephew Bent Anker Collet.

The three central bays of the main wing are decorated with pilasters and are tipped by a triangular pediment.

The original main entrance was restored in connection with another adaption of the building carried out by the architect Mogens og Peter Koch in 1943.

A garden in French style was created by Caspar Wilhelm von Munthe of Morgenstierne.