In 1680, Queen Downer Sophie Amalie granted Sandholm to her bodyguard Casper Eberhard Meyer with freedom from all taxes.

When Meyer was sent to Lolland to serve as game master (vildtmester), following Sophie Amalie's death, he obtained royal permission to sell Sandholm.

Later owners included rittmeister Mathias Mohr and Supreme Court attorney Bertel Bjørnsen who sold it in 1708 for 3,000 Danish rigsdaler to king Frederick IV.

He also redesigned the gardens and park and praised the environs for their beauty but when his wife died the following year he chose to rent out the house to the historian and book collector Henrik Hielmstierne.

In 1761, Sandholm was sold at public auction to Queen Sophie Magdalene's court pastor Johan Andreas Cramer, He was an enthusiastic farmer and the first in the area to grow potatoes.