page_title: Lilliendal
section_title: Hans Gustav Lillienskiold
hierarchical_section_title: Lilliendal / History / Hans Gustav Lillienskiold
caption_attribution_description: Hans Gustav Lillienskiold (1727-1796), Danish nobleman, estate owner, and naval officer
context_page_description: Lilliendal is a manor house and estate located at Vordingborg in southeastern Denmark. The estate covers approximately 800 hectares of mostly farmland.
context_section_description: Lilliendal  was established by Hans Gustav Lillienskiold (1727–1796) in the 1760s and later owned by the Knuth family for almost two hundred years from the 1800s to 1994. A relatively small main building from 1765 was expanded in the 1850s and again in 1919. 
  Lilliendal replaced a village called Skuderup which in the 17th century consisted of ten farms and four houses. The largest of the farms, Skuderupgaard, is first mentioned in 1664 when it was owned by Anne Gjordes. It changed hands many times before it was acquired by Hans Gustav Lillienskiold in 1760.
  The rest of Skuderup had been included in Vordingborg Cavalry District in the 1710s, which was now divided into 12 estates and sold in auction. Two of these estates, Skuderup and Høvdingsgaard, were acquired by Lillienskiold. He then merged Skuderupgaard and Skuderup under the name Lilliendal.
  Hans Gustav Lillienskiold was a naval officer. His maternal grandfather,  Hans Hansen Smed (Schmidt)(1650-1703) had been ennobled under the surname Lillienskiold  in 1776. He had met his first wife in the Danish West Indies. It was this marriage that had provided him with the economic means to purchase the estates. His wife died on the Skuderupgaard  estate in 1768.
caption: Hans Gustav Lillienskiold
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