Jorgen Kaas til Hastrup

According to tradition the main farm’s predecessor, Hastrup Castle, have been founded by Queen Thyra Dannebod on an islet in the middle of Hastrup Lake . This castle would, however, be destroyed in the late 1300s.

In 1877 Hastrup Manor sold to the state, after which the farm buildings were demolished and farm lands planted over a 20-year period, mainly with spruce . This became the basis for the current Hastrup Forest . This plantation is now approx. 620 hectares of mixed deciduous forest, coniferous forest and non-vegetated areas. A large part of the timber from the barn of the old manor was used to build a new farm approx. two kilometers south of Hastrup Lake, just outside the plantation; farm was called “New Hastrup,” but only the farmhouse is now back of the then four-winged farm.

Today Hastrup Forest is within Feldborg State Forest .

The manor was built upon a flat, square bank, surrounded by banks and moats, which were kept water-filled by dams. The building is four-winged and includes a small yard, only 8,75 m each square. It is built in late Gothic style in bricks upon a high plinth of raw granite boulder and with a cellar under the whole two-storeyed building. It is said that an inscription was upon a beam in the yard saying that Lucas (Glob) Krabbe put down the first stone for this foundation in 1516. On the gables of the south wing were earlier a couple of hanging bays, possibly “hemmeligheder” (secrets = toilets). Behind the 2-3 feet thick walls the unruly Krabbes could feel secure towards wronged class companions and peasants. When the peasants in Grevefejden (civil war) ravaged in Salling and let “the red cock”crow (fire) on the castles of their oppressors, they probably also wished to chase the squire of Østergård away from his home, but if they tried to, they probably failed. Later was no need to have a fortificated castle like this, but banks and moats were kept until the 19th century. Now is only a small rest left.

Glob Krabbe died a few years after the reformation (1543)and was buried in Åsted church, where his wife was also buried, and where a head stone reminds them. He had feuds with his peasants till the end. Their son Iver Krabbe (+ 1561), who in his youth had the family’s hot blood in his veins, became a rich man, rigsråd and the holder of several important vasalries. He and later his widow bought much estate in exchange with the Crown. This estate was situated near the farm, and he also achieved freebirkeret (judicial rights) of all estate in the parish a year before his death. This right followed Østergård until 1688. He probably built the last two wings of the manor.

After his death his widow fru Magdalene Banner kept the farm, she followed her husband to the grave in 1597 and was buried by his side in Åsted kirke. She had given vaults and a new pulpit to the church. It seems that she before her death gave Østergård to her daughter Anne Krabbe, who from 1580 was widow after rigsråd Axel Viffert and later was married to Erik Kaas of Vorgård in Himmerland (+ 1598). She died childless in 1625, but the heirs did not accept the inheritance. Østergård was not taken over by strangers though, it came to her sister’s daughter Otte Lindenov of Borreby’s widow Anne Tygesdatter Brahe, (+ 1636), and when her son Otte Ottesen Lindenov’s widow fru Vibeke Clausdatter Podebusk (+ 1645) – who had a livsbrev (ownerrights for life) on the farm – in 1639 married hr. Knud Ulfeldt of Svenstrup, who was killed in the war 1657, the farm came to him and then to his stepson, kammerherre Christian Lindenov,who was amtmand (district) in Norway and the last of the Krabbe-descendants who owned the old family-farm.

In the beginning of the following century it was told that Østergård, Eskjær and Astrup were the only manors in Salling with a dairy.  Østergård was in a bad state after the war; 9 farms in Nissum village were destroyed. Christian Lindenov pawned Østergård to the wellknown priest at Vor Frue Kirke in Copenhagen, magister Erik Olufsen Torm, whose widow Søster Worm, a daughter of the famous professor Ole Worm, in 1673 took over farm and estate, which was confirmed by the Supreme Court two years later. The saga of the old nobility was over, and middle-class families moved into Glob Krabbe’s old castle. During the latest century it had often been uninhabited and neglected, sometimes owned by people, who lived far away, and sometimes by poor people, who could not pay their bills. In the summer 1998  the Danish State took over the very decayed buildings. Restorations started in June 2000 with an expected finish in the castle’s 500 years jubilee in 2016!