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Domicile
The ”Næsseslot” and the surrounding gardens date from the 1780s. In 1661 the Danish King Frederik III’s queen, Sophie Amalie, had had a smallish manor house built on the site of the present-day Dronninggårds Allé. In 1781 Dronninggård Manor, as it was called, was bought by the wealthy merchant Frédéric de Coninck (1740 – 1811). Frédéric de Coninck had the “Næsseslot” built in 1782-1783 by a today unknown architect. The ponderous building in Louis Seize style was constructed at the centre of a hunting star hewn out 100 years previously, consisting of eight lines of view. De Coninck and his landscape gardener, Colonel Henri Drevon, were both immigrants from Flanders. In 1783 – 1786 Drevon laid out the first romantic garden at the “Næsseslot”, modelling his style after the manor parks in the south of England. The garden is an arrangement of nature, accentuating the landscape’s intrinsic form and shape, though the park also has its own fixed axis layout, inspired by the ideals of the Baroque. The fundamental structure of the original landscape gardens around the “Næsseslot” remains intact. Quotation from leaflet issued by the Municipality of Søllerød and Søllerød Museum in 1997. |
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