Poul Abraham Lehn (9 October 1732 – 24 October 1804), Baron of Lehn and Baron of Guldborgland, was a feudal baron of the Danish and Norwegian nobility and one of the largest landowners of his time in Denmark.
Baron Poul Abraham Lehn inherited and purchased a number of estates during his lifetime. He created three separate baronies through these estates: Lehn, Guldborgland, and Sønderkarle. With no surviving sons, he left created these baronies for his daughters who were either transferred the properties during his lifetime or inherited them after his death.
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Biography
Poul Abraham Lehn was born on 9 October 1732 to Abraham Lehn (1701–1757) and Sophie A. Edinger (1700–1768) at Berritzgaard. His father was an estate owner and collector of books and art. In 1731, Abraham Lehn and his brother Johan Lehn (1705–1760) had been ennobled; this made Poul Abraham Lehn noble as well when he was born in 1732.
After the death of his father in 1757, he inherited the estates Berritzgaard and Højbygård on Lolland. When his uncle Johan Lehn died in 1760, he acquired the estates of Hvidkilde, Nielstrup, and Lindskov (Lehnskov) on Funen. In 1775, he purchased Orebygaard.
In 1780 and 1784, based on his family estates, Lehn was made feudal baron of the Barony of Lehn and of the Barony of Guldborgland, respectively. In 1781, he created the Barony of Lehn by combining his estates on Funen of Hvidkilde, Nielstrup, and Lehnskov. This barony was given to his eldest daughter, Sophie Amalie Rantzau-Lehn, and eventually passed into freehold in 1925. The Barony of Guldborgland was established in 1784 by combining the Berritzgaard and Orebygaard estates; it became a freehold property in 1922.