Vennerslund is a manor house located 11 km northwest of Nykøbing on the island of Falster in southeastern Denmark. The estate has belonged to the Grandjean family since 1809. The new and old main buildings were both listed on the Danish registry of protected buildings and places by the Danish Heritage Agency on 13 April 1950. The estate has a total area of 1010 hectares and borders Guldborgsund in the west. History Stafager Vennerslund was originally called Stadager and took its name after the village it was situated in. The first known owner was Folmer Folmersen who owned it in 1351. The estate was later owned by the Lunge family and from the middle of the 15th century by the Venstermand family. Lave Venstermand became the last member of the family to own the estate. In 1576 he ceded it to king Frederick II in exchange for Pederstrup on Lolland. Frederick II renamed the estate Sophieholm after his wife sin Sophie of Mecklenburg but its old name was reintroduced in 1583. 1765–1809:Vennerslund and Kirstineberg Christian VII sold the royal holdings on Falster in auction 1766 to make payments on the Danish sovereign debt. The land was divided into eight parcels, each of which forming the basis of a new manor house with associated tenant farms. Parcel number seven was acquired by Hans Tersling and Peder Thestrup who constructed a house on the land and named the estate Vennerslund ("Friends' Grove"). A second manor house was built on the land in 1773 after the tenant farmers had complained about the long distances they had to cover to work in the fields. The new manor house was given the name Kirstineberg ("Kirstine's Hill") after Tersling's wife Kirstine. Tersling died in 1785 and his widow Kirstine Tersling became the sole owner of Vennerslund and Kirstineberg four years later. When she then married Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, it was decided in a prenuptial that Vennerslund was to be passed on to her son from her first marriage, Jørgen Tersling, while Kirstineberg would be passed on to the Colbjørnsen family. 1809–present: The Grandjean family In 1809, Tersling sold Vennerslund for 30000 rigsdaler to Carl Vincens Grandjean. Grandjean established Det Grandjean'ske Legathus in the parish prior to his death in 1844. He had no children and Vennerslund was therefore passed on to his nephew Ludvig Grandjean. Ludvig Grandjean founded the stamhus Vennerslund in accordance with his uncle's