From Berckentin’s country retreat to a hotel. Kokkedal’s history lives on in its architecture, cellar vaults and the names you encounter at the castle.
Count Christian August von Berckentin commissioned Kokkedal as a country retreat. Architect Johan Gottfried Rosenberg designed the house, as well as Berckentin’s Copenhagen palace, now known as Odd Fellow Palæet. Queen Sophie Magdalene granted Berckentin the Kokkedal tenant farm and lands belonging to Hirschholm Palace.
Berckentin
The family and the court
Berckentin was married to Susanna Margrethe von Boineburg zu Honstein. Their daughter Louise von Berckentin later inherited the estate. Known as Louise Scheel von Plessen, she served as lady-in-waiting to Queens Sophie Magdalene and Caroline Mathilde.
1864–1866
The castle takes on a new form
Jens Frederik Horsens Block acquired Kokkedal in 1864. Working with architect C. V. Nielsen, he undertook an extensive rebuilding in the National Romantic style. The eighteenth-century cellar vaults retain their original form.
1910
An admiral becomes the owner
Chamberlain Andreas du Plessis de Richelieu became the castle’s owner. A businessman, he had previously served as an admiral in the Royal Siamese Navy in present-day Thailand.
2011
From castle to hotel
Kokkedal opened as a hotel in 2011. Mikael Goldschmidt acquired the property in 2013, and extensive renovation gave the historic setting a new purpose as Kokkedal Slot Copenhagen.
2020
A new chapter
On 1 July 2020, Anne and Kasper Heebøll Harboe entered into a lease agreement to operate the castle.
