page_title: Hørbygaard
section_title: Changing owners
hierarchical_section_title: Hørbygaard / History / Changing owners
caption_attribution_description: English: Volrad August von der Lühe family
context_page_description: Hærbygaard is a manor house and estate located on Tuse Næs, Holbæk Municipality, some 80 kilometres west of Copenhagen, Denmark. The current main building was constructed for Melchior Grevenkop-Castenskiold in 1861-62 and later expanded with a new north wing by Gotfred Tvede in 1900-1901.
context_section_description: In 1692, Christian V granted the estate to Admiral Henrik Span who was at the same time raised to the peerage. He had been appointed as Head of Nyholm in 1690 where he had reorganized the naval base and modernised the operations at the Royal Danish Naval Dockyards. He settled on the estate and constructed a tower which enabled him to see the sea from the house.
  Span's widow kept the estate after his death just two years later. Their daughter and only child, Charlotte Amalie Henriksdatter Span, inherited it in 1722. The medical doctor and botanist Christen Friis Rottbøll and the bishop Christian Michael Rottbøll were born on the estate in  1727 and 1820. Their father, Christen Michelsen Rottbøll, was manager of the estate. He died in 1820 and their mother later married the manager of nearby Hagestedgaard. Charlotte Amalie Henriksdatter Span had no children and returned the estate to the Crown in 1730.
  In  1744, Hørbygaard was granted to Volrad August von der Lühe. He had also been rewarded with the title of overpræsident in Copenhagen.
caption: Volrad August von der Lühe with his family
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