Store Mariendal
Store Mariendal wasa country house at Strandvejen 135 in Hellerup, on the border between Copenhagen and Gentofte municipalities, Copenhagen, Denmark. It was operated as a hotel and entertainment venue in the 1900s and 1910s and served as the residence of Prince Viggo from 1931 to 1970. The building was demolished in 1977 and a housing estate with 121 apartments by the same name is now located at the site.
History
A countryhouse named Lille Lokkerup was in the beginning of the 18th century located at the site. It was in the late 1720s owned by Christian Koningh. A later owner, royal mint masterChristian Wieneken, renamed it Mariendal after his wife.
The property was in 1757 acquired by Philip de Lange. He demolished the buildings and constructed Store Mariendal on the Copenhagen side of the border in 1759 followed by Lille Mariendal on the Gentofte side of the border in 1764.[1]
Lange made the house avaiolable to the Spannjish envoy to Copenhagen. After Lange's death in 1881, it was sold in auction. The buyer was royal ropemaker Peter Applebye. The next owners were chief secretary F. Chr. Rosenkrantz, bank manager Johan Niklai Tetens, major-general Oxholm and silk merchant and local politician Johan Christian Lund. Most of the land was in 1872 sold off in lots.[2] The jurist and credit union manager Ephraim Magdalus Møller purchased Store Mariendal in 1888.
Store Mariendal was in the late 1890s acquired by captain Knud Rasmussen and converted into a hotel, restaurant and music venue. It was in 1919 acquired by the businessman Carl Glad, He was the owner of the oil company L. C. Glad and two year later appointed as Austrian consul-general.[3] The main building was adapted by the architect Aage Rafn in 1928.
Glad's company went bankrupt in connection with the Great Crash of 1929. They had to sell both their properties and moved into an apartment in Bredgade.[4]
The new owner of Store Mariendal was Prince Viggo, Count of Rosenborg, a son of Prince Valdemar of Denmark and Princess Marie Amélie Françoise Hélène d'Orléans, who lived there until his death in 1970. The building was then used as the head office of the engineering company Bigum og Steenfoss.
Store Mariendal was in 1977 purchased by Lejerbo and demolished. A housing estate by the same name with 121 apartments was completed at the site in 1970.
References
- ^ "LEJERBO skriver Københavns - historie i 1980" (in Danish). BO-VEST. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Historie 2" (in Danish). BO-VEST. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Historie 3" (in Danish). BO-VEST. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
- ^ "Grethe Glad (1891 - 1990)". kvinfo.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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