Fårupgård Estate, Vejle, Denmark Genealogy

History
Fårupgård was previously a village named Fårup. Around 1400 the village consisted of five farms which each had different owners. Only after Laurids Skram traded for a few farms in Fårup village in 1578 did the farms begin to be gathered under a main farm, which was called Fårupgård. When he died, his widow, Maren Bille, and later her daughter Maren Skram, who was also a widow, took over the farm. She moved to Fårup Mill in 1617, and then let the town of Fårup be torn down.

Her niece, Sophie Below, inherited it after her and possessed Fårupgård for 19 years before her son, Henrik Thott, took over and sold the farm to his sister, Anne Thott. However, she had it for only three years, and when she died, the farm returned to her brother. In the middle of the 17th century the Swedish wars ravaged the land, and Fårupgård suffered greatly during the hard times. That's why Henrik Thott ended up selling the farm, which a few years later came to the owner of Haraldskær, Conrad von der Brincken. During that period, Fårupgård changed owners often.

In the late 18th century, Hans Marcussen Ammitzbøll bought the estate and after selling it to a relative, got it back in 1798. He obtained permission to subdivide the farm into smaller parcels a few years later.

In 1911, Vejle County bought what remained of the estate and subdivided it into 26 cottage plots. Then the main parcel was sold to himself to P. Chr. Kæmpegård, who in 1914 created a 'Reception and Nursing Home for the Deaf' on the farm. He sold it four years later to the City of Copenhagen, which set up a detox for alcoholics and a Rehabilitation Center for Copenhagen hospitals here.

In 1968, Vejle Municipality purchased Fårupgård, now called Fårupgård Ungecenter [Youth Center]. In 2013, the center takes care of young people with particularly difficult problems.

Land Records
Unfortunately many of the genealogical records typically kept by estates were in this case, either not kept or not preserved. There is, however, a 1664 land list (jordebog) that is available and it can be accessed by clicking here.