Aastrup (manor House)
History
Origins
Aastrup was originally the name of a village. It belonged to the Bishops of Roskilde. In the beginning of the 16th century, it was replaced by a manor with the same name.
Krabbe and Kruse
During the Reformation, Aastrup was confiscated by the Crown. It was shortly thereafter acquired by Erik Krabbe, a son of rigsmarsk Tyge Krabbe. His father had been a central figure in the uprise against Christian II (1481–1559). Erik Krabbe instigated that Saxo Gramaticus's Danmarkskrønike from the 12th century was republished in 1534.
After Krabbe's death in 1564, Aastrup was passed to his son Glob Krabbe. Glob's brother Christian Krabbe inherited the estate in 1582. He sold it to royal treasurer Enevold Kruse in circa 1596 when he married Else Marsvin. He constructed a new main building in circa 1613.
Changing owners
In 1641, Jørgen Seefeld bought the estate. Some twenty years later, he sold it to Peder Lauridsen Scavenius purchased the estate. He had recently been ennobled by Frederick III in conjunction with the introduction of Absolute monarchy. After Scavenius' death, Aastrup was passed to his son-in-law, Niels Benzon, upon whose death it was passed to his son Peder Benzon.
In 1814, Peder Benzon sold Aastrup and purchased Hagestedgaard. Aastrup's new owner wasGregers Juel. He had just resigned from the army after missing a promotion.n 1716.
Eichel family, 1736–1806
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Inn 1736, Johannes Eichel bought Aastrup. Later in the same year, he converted it into a stamhus for his family . The effect of a stamhus was that the estate could no longer be sold, pawned or divided between heirs. A roadside memorial to Johan Wichel designed by Johannes Wiedewelt was installed at a nearby site.
The first holder of the stamhus was Just Valentin Eichel. He was married to Marianne Grove (1705–1833). They only had one child, a daughter, Elisabeth Hedevig Eichel. She was nine years old when her father died in 1738. In 1744, when she was just 15 years old, she was married to her guardian, Caspar Christopher Bartholin (1700–1765), a Supreme Court justice and 28 years her senior. In 1745, he sold Kås Manor. In 1760, he was appointed as acting justidiarius (president) of the Supreme Court.
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Caspar Christopher Bartholin was succeeded by their son Johan Bartholin Eichel as holder of Stamhuset Aastrup. He was appointed as judge at Hof- og Stadsretten in 1771 and at the Supreme Court in 1773. He was succeeded on the estate by his son of the same name. Johan Bartholin Eichel was married to Charlotte Grothschilling. Christian Qwortrup was his estate manager. Other staff members included a male servant, a coachman, a housekeeper, a female cook, a maid, a "brewery girl" and a "poultry girl".
On 13 May 1803, Johan Bartholin Eichel was granted permission to dissolve the stamhus. It was replaced by the Bartholin Eichels Fideikommis, a bounded capital of 90,000 Danish eigsdaler. In 1805, Aastrup was sold to Ulrik Christian Von Schmidten. In 1809, Johan Bartholin Eichel purchased another manor, Svanholm, but sold it again in 1813.
Ulrik Christian Von Schmidten was colloquially known as the "manor butcher" (herregårdsslagteren) due to the large number of manors that he bought, alone or with partners, with the intention of breaking them up in smaller farms and sell them again.
