Ville Heise

Vilhelmine (Ville) Heise, also Wilhelmine, née Faber, adopted maiden name Hage, (1838–1912) was a Danish philanthropist who used her inherited fortune to establish sanatoriums at Rydebäck in southern Sweden and at Snekkersten near Helsingør in Denmark.

Her parents' grandiose residence, the Harsdorff Mansion on Kongens Nytorv in central Copenhagen, became a meeting place for the capital's political and cultural elite in Denmark's Golden Age.

[2][3] In 1880, encouraged by her brother, the cultural philanthropist Johannes Hage (1842–1923), Ville Heise bought Rydebäck Manor with its estate near Helsingborg in Sweden.

[3] In the 1890s, she bought land in Snekkersten near Helsingør where in the early 1900s she commissioned the architect Hans J. Holm to build three institutions: Damehjemmet for single housemaids, Familielyst for orphaned children and Officersenkehjemmet for the widowed wives of army officers.

Designed as a winter leisure centre for boys and girls, in addition to household chores it provided training in crafts such as furniture making.