The Danish Research Centre
for Manorial Studies

Promotes and coordinates research on Danish country houses and estates.

The Danish Research Centre
for Manorial Studies

Promotes and coordinates research on Danish country houses and estates.

Research projects

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Started

2025

Master of his own house?

Started

2022

Servants at a Great Scale

The project "Servants at a great scale. Nationwide database of servants at all Danish manors" is carried out by database employee Andreas Emil Mikkelsen at The Danish Research Centre for Manorial Studies and is carried out during 2025-2027 with support

Started

2022

The Household as Organisation

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Networks

The Danish Center for Manor House Research participates in a range of projects and networks aimed at promoting research and learning on manor houses and supporting collaboration across disciplines and sectors.

Networks

Danish manor houses

What is a manor house?

The term manor house is fundamentally a historical concept that relates to a reality which no longer exists.

Learning

The Danish Center for manor house research aims to share and communicate knowledge and research findings.

Publications

All publications are available for purchase through the museum shop at Gammel Estrup – The Manor Museum.

Map of danish manor houses

Denmark is a landscape of manor houses! On danskeherregaarde.dk, you can see how closely the manor houses are located, and how their history is, in fact, a shared part of our history.

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