page_title: Svenstrup (manor house)
section_title: Neergaard family
hierarchical_section_title: Svenstrup (manor house) / History / Neergaard family
caption_attribution_description: Joachim Wedell-Neergaard (1862-1926), Danish Baron and estate owner
context_page_description: Svenstrup is a manor house and estate located close to Borup, Køge Municipality, some 50 kilometres southwest of Copenhagen, Denmark. It has belonged to members of the Neergaard/Wedell-Neergaard family since 1751.
context_section_description: After the divorce, Frederik Oertz sold Svenstrup to Peter Johansen Neergaard who had been appointed to krigsråd. He managed the estate with great skill. His son, Jens Bruun Neergaard, constructed a new main building in 1780, the same year that he was ennobled under the name de Neergaard, and also expanded the estate through the acquisition of more land. Jens Bruun de Neergaard is also remembered for his literarydispute with the poet Johan Herman Wessel.
  Jens Bruun de Neergaard's widow, Anna Marie Møller, kept the estate after his death in 1788. She implemented some of the agricultural reforms of the time in the years between 1791 and 1802 and bought Skjoldenæsholm.
  In 1844, Johan Andreas de Neergaard turned Svenstrup into a fideikommis.  His son Peter Christian Joachim Bruun de Neergaard took over Svenstrup in 1846 while the brother was given Skjoldnæseholm. The process of selling off tenant farms to the farmers did not begin until 1860 at Svenstrup.
  Peter Christian Joachim Bruun de Neergaard was succeeded by his grandson, Joachim Wedell, wgo was granted royal permission to carry the name Wedell-Neergaard. He sold the last tenant farms in the 1900s, making Svenstrup the last manor in the country to complete this process. The fideikommisgodser  was dissolved as a result of lensafløsningsloven in 1919. Joachim Wedell-Neergaard died in 1926. His widow Henny Caroline Julie Moltke passed the estate on to their son Christian Wedell-Neergaard in 1937.
caption: Joachim Wedell-Neergaard photographed by Julie Laurberg
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