Linderud
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Linderud Manor (Linderud gård) was owned by the Catholic Church before the Reformation of 1536, and thereafter by the Crown.[1] It was bought by Peder Griffenfeldt in 1673,[2] then by Mogens Lauritzen in 1679, and belonged to the latter's family for over a century. By the late eighteenth century, the manor was a part of a property which included vast amounts of forest, some timber industrial sites and about 350 farms.[1]
Lauritzen's ancestor Mogens Larsen Monsen passed it down to his son-in-law Haagen Mathiesen[1] in 1802.[3] Later owners include Haaken C. Mathiesen from 1875 to 1891,[4] Christian Pierre Mathiesen from 1893 to 1940 and Jørgen Mathiesen from 1940.[5] Jørgen Mathiesen set up the Linderud Foundation in 1954, which now owns the main building of the manor as well as the surrounding park.[1] Since 1960 parts of the park are preserved due to botanical value.[6]
