Quartermaster Georg Julius Wodroff purchased a piece of land at the site in 1698 and established the Vodroffgård watermill at the mouth of the Ladegård Canal.
It was originally built as a fulling mill but was soon adapted for other use.
In 1702, he obtained a 12-year monopoly on the manufacture of rolled barley and snus as well as on operating sharpening and polishing mills within a distance of three Danish miles from Copenhagen.
From 1733, Vodroffgård was used for manufacturing ship sails with a monopoly on deliveries to the Danish navy.</ref>
Hartvig Marcus Frisch, director of the Royal Danish Greenland Company, owned the property from 1794 to 1803.
He discontinued the industrial activities in the 1790s and began exclusively using the estate as a summer retreat.
In 1803, Vodroffsgård was acquired by Carl Ludvig Zinn.
Zinn passed away in 1808 .
After his widow's death in 1847, Vodroffsgård passed to their daughter Emilie Augusta Zinn and her husband Niels Wolff.
Quartermaster Georg Julius Wodroff purchased a piece of land at the site in 1698 and established the Vodroffgård watermill at the mouth of the Ladegård Canal. It was originally built as a fulling mill but was soon adapted for other use. In 1702, he obtained a 12-year monopoly on the manufacture of rolled barley and snus as well as on operating sharpening and polishing mills within a distance of three Danish miles from Copenhagen. From 1733, Vodroffgård was used for manufacturing ship sails with a monopoly on deliveries to the Danish navy.</ref>
Hartvig Marcus Frisch, director of the Royal Danish Greenland Company, owned the property from 1794 to 1803. He discontinued the industrial activities in the 1790s and began exclusively using the estate as a summer retreat. In 1803, Vodroffsgård was acquired by Carl Ludvig Zinn. Zinn passed away in 1808 . After his widow's death in 1847, Vodroffsgård passed to their daughter Emilie Augusta Zinn and her husband Niels Wolff.
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