The building was built at the instigation of the Danish designer Jim Lyngvild and is the first pagan hof in Denmark since the time of the Middle Ages.

[1] It was built in three weeks by Lyngvild and a group of friends, and was finished by the end of March 2016.

Participating at the event were Lyngvild's friends Pia Kjærsgaard, Speaker of the Danish Parliament, who cut the ribbon, and Inger Støjberg, the Danish Minister for Integration, who performed the naming ceremony, naming the building Manheim (lit.

[3][4] Kjeld Holm, a former Bishop of Aarhus, called it "grotesque" that the two politicians had participated at the event, saying that they never would have done the same for a mosque.

[4] Manheim is located near Lyngvild's home, the "viking castle" Ravnsborg, at the town Korinth on Funen.