{{short description|Danish manor house}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2018}} {{Infobox building | name = Krenkerup | image = Krenkerup Gods.JPG | location = Krenkerupvej 27, 4990 [[Sakskøbing]] | location_country = Denmark | coordinates = {{coord|54|46|37|N|11|40|13|E|type:landmark_region:DK|display=inline,title}} | completion_date = {{circa|1500-1631}} }}
'''Krenkerup''' is an old manor house located 3 km (2 mi) southwest of [[Sakskøbing]] on the Danish island of [[Lolland]]. It is one of Denmark's oldest estates and manors, documented as early as the 1330s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lollands-herregaarde.dk/|title=Krenkerup|publisher=Lolland-Falsters Herregarde|access-date=25 June 2014|language=da}}</ref> Between 1815 and 1938, it was known as ''Hardenberg''.<ref name=DanskeHerregaarde>{{cite web|url=http://danskeherregaarde.dk/18021.aspx|title=Krenkerup|publisher=Dansk Center for Herregårdsforskning|access-date=17 November 2017|language=da}}</ref>
==History== ===Gøye family=== The first known owner of the estate was Axel Mogensen Gøye.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.danskeherregaarde.dk/nutid/krenkerup|title=Krenkerup|language=Danish|website=danskeherregaarde.dk|access-date=16 June 2022}}</ref>
===Brahe family, 1558{{ndash}}1622=== Margrethe Gøye brought the estate into her marriage to Peder Brahe.
===Rosenkrantz family=== [[File:Palle Rosencrantz 1622.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Palle Rosencrantz in 1622.]] In 1622, Krenkerup was once again transferred to a new noble family, when Otte Pedersen Brahe's widow Elisabeth (née Rosensparre) married to Palle Rosenkrantz. His descendents owned the estate until 1677.
===Reventlow family=== In 1731, the [[Reventlow]]s established a family property consisting of Krenkerup, Rosenlund and Nørregård which in 1815 became the countyship of Hardenberg-Reventlow, including the subsidiary estates of Nielstrup, Sæbyholm and Christiansdal.
===Hardenberg-Reventlow family=== [[File:Hardenberg, ved Saxköbing d. 12. Aug. 1820. No. 73.jpg|thumb|Gardenberg on a watercolour by created by [[Ole Jørgen Rawert]] on 2 August 1820.]]In 1774 Juliane Frederikke Christiane Reventlow brought Krenkerup into her marriage to Carl August Hardenberg. Their son Christian Heinrich August Hardenberg-Reventlow became the owner of the estate in 1793. In 1815, he renamed the estate Hardenberg.<ref name=dsd>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Danmarks_geografi_og_historie/Danmarks_geografi/Danske_slotte_og_herreg%C3%A5rde/Krenkerup|title=Krenkerup|encyclopedia=Den Store Danske|access-date=25 June 2014|language=da}}</ref> It was dissolved in 1924.<ref name=dsd/> After his death in 1840 the estate was passed to his daughter Ida. Her son Carl adopted the name Holck-Hardenberg-Reventlow.
==Today== Covering an area of {{convert|3700|ha|abbr=on}}, the estate is one of the largest in Denmark.<ref name=dsd/> Today it is an active agricultural concern and also houses a brewery<ref name=krenkerup/> and the only professional full size polo field in Denmark.<ref name=krenkeruppolo>{{cite web|url=https://krenkeruppolo.dk/|title=Krenkerup Polo|publisher=Krenkerup Polo|access-date=1 July 2021|language=en}}</ref>
==Architecture== The three-winged building stands on a narrow, rectangular mound surrounded by a moat. The original stone house from 1490 was extended by statesman [[Mogens Gøye]] with three new wings, forming an enclosed courtyard. A tower was added on the west side. In 1631, [[Palle Rosenkrantz]] built an extra storey on the north wing and an octagonal tower on the southeast corner.<ref name=krenkerup>{{cite web|url=http://www.krenkerup.dk/krenkerup_gods/|title=Krenkerup Gods|publisher=Krenkerup|access-date=25 June 2014|language=da|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404112910/http://www.krenkerup.dk/krenkerup_gods/|archive-date=4 April 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The south wing was destroyed by fire in 1689 and never rebuilt. The entire complex was renovated in 1780.
==List of owners== * (1367–1411) Axel Mogensen Gøye * (?–1392) Laurids Nielsen Kabel * (1381–1392) Mogens Gøye * (1411–?) Karen Madsdatter (married name: Gøye) * (1411–1417) Oluf Axelsen Gøye * (1411–1450) Mogens Axelsen Gøye * (1417–?) Mette Christiernsdatter, (married names: Gøye, Jensen) * (?–?) Jens Jensen * (1417–1427) Evert Moltke * (1417–1427) Mathias Moltke * (1450–1506) Eskil Gøye * (1506–1544) [[Mogens Gøye]] * (1544) [[Birgitte Gøye]] (married name: Trolle) * (1544–1558) Albrecht Gøye * (1558–1594) Margrethe Albrechtsdatter Gøye, (married name: Brahe) * (1558–1566) Otte Gøye * (1558–?) Margrethe Gøye, (married name: Brahe) * (? –1610) Peder Brahe * (1610–1613) Axel Brahe * (1613–1622) Otte Pedersen Brahe * (1613–1622) Elisabeth Rosensparre (married names: Brahe, Rosenkrantz) * (1622–1642) Palle Rosenkrantz * (1642–1649) Lisbeth Lunge (married name: Rosenkrantz) * (1649–1660) Jørgen Rosenkrantz * (1660–1665) Mette Rosenkrantz * (1660–1677) Birgitte Rosenkrantz (married name: Skeel) * (1660–1680) Johan Rantzau * (1660–1680) Jørgen Rantzau * (1660–1680) Palle Rantzau * (1677–1695) Jørgen Skeel * (1695–1700) Benedicte Margrethe Brockdorff (married names: Skeel, Reventlow) * (1700–1738) [[Christian Detlev Reventlow]] * (1718–1739) Benedicte Margrethe Brockdorff (married names: Skeel, Reventlow) * (1739–1750) [[Conrad Ditlev Reventlow]] * (1750–1759) Christian Ditlev Reventlow * (1759–1774) Juliane Frederikke Christiane Reventlow (married name: Hardenberg) * (1774–1788) Carl August Hardenberg * (1788–1793) Juliane Frederikke Christiane Reventlow * (1793–1840) Christian Heinrich August Hardenberg-Reventlow * (1840–1867) Ida Augusta Hardenberg-Reventlow, (married names: Holck, Gersdorff, D'Almaforte) * (1867–1885) Carl Ludvig August Rudolph Holck-Hardenberg-Reventlow * (1885–1903) Princess Lucie of [[Schoenaich-Carolath|Schönaich-Carolath]], (married name: [[Haugwitz]]) * (1903–1921) Heinrich Bernhard Carl Paul Georg Curt Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow * (1921–1970) Henrik Ludwig Erdmann Georg Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow * (1970–2011) Rupert Gorm Reventlow-Grinling * (2003–present) Patrick Reventlow-Grinling<ref>{{Cite web|title=Krenkerup|url=https://www.danskeherregaarde.dk/nutid/krenkerup|access-date=2022-10-11|website=Dansk Center for Herregårdforskning|language=da-DK}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Literature== {{Commons category|Krenkerup}} *{{cite book|last1=Rhode|first1=Peder Christian|last2=Friis|first2=J. J. F.|title=Samlinger til de danske øers Laalands og Falster historie|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4pAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA445|year=1859|language=da|publisher=C. Steen|pages=445–}}
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