Maglekilde

[3] On 8 April 1731, Maglekilde Watermill was the first of the buildings which were destroyed in the series of devastating fires that hit Roskilde in 1731.

They introduced a number of new initiatives, including the construction of workers' housing and the import of skilled stockings weavers from Magdeburg.

The father of O.H.Schmeltz, who would become known for his many large donations to the city of Roskilde, was employed as a master weaver at Maglekilde Textile Mill in 1811.

They demolished the buildings, filled the mill pond and built a combined spa and mineral water factory on the site.

The complex was in 1851 acquired by Constant Dirckink-Holmfeld, a German-born civil servant and political writer, who had fallen out of favour in Copenhagen for his criticism of the March Revolution and new constitution.

He lived in part of the complex while the rest was still used by the mineral water factory or rented out to private tenants.