This is a consolidated list of castles and palaces in Denmark. The
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word ''slot '', like the word ''schloss'' in the related
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usage.
Whenever possible traditional English translations provided by the Danish Palaces and Properties Agency, a national agency maintaining and utilising the states palaces, castles and gardens, have been used to determine whether a property should be called a castle or a palace. When not possible the following guidelines, which are in general keeping with the above translations, and with Wikipedia articles have been used:
* Castle: Generally older building, generally a fortified building
* Palace: Generally newer building, generally a non-fortified building used primarily as a residence
Other related words
The Danish word ''borg'', which appears at the end of many castle and palace names literally means "fortified castle", but it is no clear indication that the property is indeed fortified. For example, Amalienborg is translated as Amalienborg Palace.
The Danish word ''palæ'' translates to "mansion", and is most often used as an indication of a non-royal, urban mansion. Exceptions are the four ''palæer'' (plural) at Amalienborg Palace, the four individual buildings that make up the Amalienborg Palace complex. These were originally non-royal, urban mansions, which were taken over by royalty in the late 18th century.
List of castles and palaces
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Absalon's Castle
Absalon's Castle, ( da, Absalons borg) was a fortification on the island of Slotsholmen in Copenhagen, located at the site of the later Copenhagen Castle and Christiansborg Palace. According to the chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, the castle was founde ...
Amalienborg Palace
Amalienborg () is the official residence for the Danish royal family, and is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Queen Magrethe ll lives here in winter and autumn. It consists of four identical classical palace façades with rococo interiors arou ...
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Antvorskov Castle
Antvorskov Monastery (Danish: ''Antvorskov Kloster'') was the principal Scandinavian monastery of the Catholic Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, located about one kilometer south of the town of Slagelse on Zealand, Denmark.
It served as the Sca ...
Augustenborg Palace
Augustenborg Palace (or Augustenborg Castle; da, Augustenborg Slot, german: Schloss Augustenburg) is a Rococo-style palace in the southwestern part of Augustenborg, Als Island, Denmark, overlooking Augustenborg Fjord. The palace owes its name ...
Berritzgaard
The Berritzgaard estate and manor house is one of the largest and best preserved manor houses on the island of Lolland in Denmark. The estate can be traced back to 1382, to its first owner, Markvard Pøiske. The estate developed from a village ca ...
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Bernstorff Palace
Bernstorff Palace ( da, Bernstorff Slot) in Gentofte, Copenhagen, Denmark, was built in the middle of the 18th century for Foreign Minister Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff. It remained in the possession of the Bernstorff family until 1 ...
Boller Castle Boller may refer to:
* Alfred P. Boller, civil engineer and bridge designer
* Kyle Boller, American Football NFL quarterback
* Pat Boller (born 1972), American ice hockey coach and executive
* Boller Brothers, architects
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Borgeby Castle
Borgeby Castle ( sv, Borgeby slott) lies in Lomma Municipality, Scania in southern Sweden, beside the Kävlingeån, the largest river in Scania.
History
The castle is built on the site of an 11th-century castle or fortress. Finds at the site ma ...
Charlottenborg Palace
Charlottenborg Palace ( da, Charlottenborg Slot) is a large town mansion located on the corner of Kongens Nytorv and Nyhavn in Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally built as a residence for Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, it has served as the base of the ...
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Charlottenlund Palace
Charlottenlund Palace ( da, Charlottenlund Slot) is a former royal summer residence in Charlottenlund, some north of central Copenhagen, Denmark. The palace was named after Princess Charlotte Amalie, who was responsible for the construction of th ...
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Christiansborg Palace (1st)
The first Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen, Denmark, was built on Slotsholmen in 1745 as a new main residence for King Christian VI of Denmark. It was built on the same site as its predecessor, Copenhagen Castle, which had assumed a monstrous ...
Clausholm Castle
Clausholm Castle is a large Danish country house located some 12 km southeast of Randers in eastern Jutland. It is one of Denmark's finest Baroque buildings.
History
The castle's origins appear to go back to the 12th century but it is first ...
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Copenhagen Castle
Copenhagen Castle ( da, Københavns Slot) was a castle on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built in the late 14th century and was located at the site of the current Christiansborg Palace.
History
In 1167, Bisho ...
Egelund Castle
Egelund House (Danish: Egelund Slot) is a former royal residence built by Queen Dowager Louise Josephine from 1915 to 1917 on the road between Hillerød and Fredensborg, near the village of Nødebo and the southern tip of Lake Esrom, 35 km ...
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Egeskov Castle
Egeskov Castle ( da, Egeskov Slot) is located near Kværndrup, in the south of the island of Funen, Denmark. The castle is Europe's best preserved Renaissance water castle.
History
Egeskov was first mentioned in 1405. The castle structure was er ...
Engelsholm Castle
Engelsholm Castle, overlooking Engelsholm Lake, is located 14 km west of Vejle in south-western Denmark. Originally a manor house which traces its history back to the 15th century, it now houses a folk high school.
History
Little is known about En ...
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Eremitage Palace
The Hermitage Hunting Lodge ( Danish: or ) is located in Dyrehaven north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The hunting lodge was built by architect Lauritz de Thurah in Baroque style from 1734 to 1736 for Christian VI of Denmark in order to host royal ba ...
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Eriksholm Castle
Eriksholm Castle is a manor house located at the foot of the Isefjord inlet, 6 km south-east of Holbæk, in east Denmark. The history of the estate dates back to 1400 but today's house was built in 1788 to a Neoclassical design by Caspar Fr ...
Fredensborg Palace
Fredensborg Palace ( da, Fredensborg Slot; ) is a palace located on the eastern shore of Lake Esrum ( Danish, ''Esrum Sø'') in Fredensborg on the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in Denmark. It is the Danish Royal Family’s spring and autumn ...
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Frederiksberg Palace
Frederiksberg Palace ( da, Frederiksberg Slot) is a Baroque residence, located in Frederiksberg, Denmark, adjacent to the Copenhagen Zoo. It commands an impressive view over Frederiksberg Gardens, originally designed as a palace garden in the ...
, Frederiksberg Palace Gardens and Søndermarken
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Frederiksborg Palace
Frederiksborg Castle ( da, Frederiksborg Slot) is a palatial complex in Hillerød, Denmark. It was built as a royal residence for King Christian IV of Denmark-Norway in the early 17th century, replacing an older castle acquired by Frederick II ...
Fuglsang Manor
Fuglsang is a 19th-century manor house now operated by Det Classenske Fideicommis as a cultural centre as an active agricultural estate at Toreby on the island of Lolland, in southeastern Denmark. The estate was owned by members of the de Neerga ...
Gamleborg
Gamleborg, also known as Gamleborg Viking Fortress, was the first fortification on the List of islands of Denmark, Danish island of Bornholm. Built around 750 AD, it was the seat of the kings of Bornholm during the Viking age (750–1050) and e ...
Gammel Estrup Manor
Gammel Estrup Manor (''Danish: Gammel Estrup'') is a red-brick Renaissance manor house some east of Randers in Jutland, Denmark. The manor as we know it today can be traced back to 1490. But excavations have revealed evidence of earlier constructi ...
Gjorslev
Gjorslev is a cruciform medieval castle located 17 km south-east of Køge, on the Stevns Peninsula, Stevns Municipality, some forty kilometres south of Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally owned by the Bishop of Roskilde, it is considered one of ...
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Glorup Manor
Glorup is a manor house located between Nyborg and Svendborg in the south-east of the Danish island Funen. Rebuilt to the design of Nicolas-Henri Jardin and his pupil Christian Josef Zuber in 1763–65, it is considered one of the finest Baroque ...
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Gram Castle
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Ærø
Ærø () is one of the Danish Baltic Sea islands, and part of the Southern Denmark Region.
Since 1 January 2006 the whole of Ærø has constituted a single municipality, known as Ærø Kommune. Before that date, there were two municipalities ...
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Guldborg Banke
Guldborg is a fishing village spanning the islands of Falster and Lolland in Denmark.
It belongs to Guldborgsund Municipality, in Region Zealand. In 2022 the village had a population of 536, with about 500 living on the Lolland side.
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Gurre Castle
Gurre Castle ( da, Gurre Slot, link=no) was a royal castle situated in North Zealand, Denmark. Its ruins lie on the outskirts of Helsingør, close to the town of Tikøb on lake Gurre Sø at Gurre. The ruins have been excavated and are now restor ...
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Haderslevhus Castle
Haderslevhus (or Hansborg) is the name of a castle that once stood in the Danish city of Haderslev, until destroyed by a fire in 1644.
History
Like most of the medieval cities of trade, Haderslev had a royal castle, which was called Haderslevh ...
Hald castle Hald may refer to:
* Anders Hald (1913–2007), Danish statistician
* Pauline Hald (1904–1998), American clinical chemist
* HAL Daemon, often referred to as "HALD"
See also
* High authority for the struggle against discrimination and for equ ...
Haraldsborg
Haraldsborg is a historic property located close to Roskilde Fjord in northeastern Roskilde, Denmark. , it is being converted into a Christmas seal home for socially challenged children.
History Harald's fortress
According to Saxo Grammaticus, ...
Hirschholm Palace
Hirschholm Palace, also known as Hørsholm Palace, was a royal palace located in present-day Hørsholm municipality just north of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was rebuilt in the Baroque style in the 1740s and, one of the finest buildings of its time, it ...
Holckenhavn Castle
Holckenhavn Castle is a manor house located next to Holckenhavn Fjord, an arm of the Great Belt, just south of Nyborg on the east coast of Funen, Denmark. The current Renaissance castle was built in the late 16th and early 17th century by three co ...
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Holsteinborg Castle
Holsteinborg Castle is a manor house located southeast of Skælskør, Slagelse Municipality, Denmark. It was built in the first half of the 17th century by members of the Trolle family, who gave it the name Trolholm, but has been owned by the Hol ...
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Hvedholm Castle
Hvedholm Castle is an estate and castle located near Faaborg on the island of Funen, Denmark. It is now the site of Hvedholm Slotshotel.
History
Hvedholm was built in the 15th century. The main building was built in 1588, rebuilt in 1681 after a ...
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Hvidkilde Castle
Hvidkilde is an estate located in Egense Parish in Svendborg Municipality, Denmark. It is situated in the south of the island of Funen.
History
The earliest reference is from 1480 when it was owned by Claus Rønnow.
The main building was bu ...
Jægerspris Castle
Jægerspris Castle ( da, Jægerspris Slot), in Jægerspris on the Hornsherred peninsula west of Copenhagen, is a Danish manor house. It has belonged to the Danish monarchs for most of its history which dates back to the 13th century. In the 18 ...
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Kalø Castle
Kalø Castle ( da, Kalø Slot) is a ruined castle located in eastern Jutland, in Denmark, 20 km from the city of Aarhus within Mols Bjerge National Park.
History
The castle was constructed in 1313 by the Danish king Erik Menved (Erik VI ...
Kokkedal Castle (Jutland)
Kokkedal () is the municipal seat of Fredensborg Municipality and a northern settlement in the urban area of Hørsholm, located on the coastline of northern Zealand, Denmark, between the two towns, Nivå and Hørsholm, 30 km north of Copenhage ...
Kongstedlund Kongstedlund is an old Denmark, Danish manor house built in 1592 in the Renaissance, Renaissance-style and situated on the peninsula of Himmerland near Aalborg. Kongstedtlund is not open to the public, but the building can be seen from the nearby ro ...
Krengerup Manor
Krengerup is a Neoclassical manor house located near Glamsbjerg some northeast of Assens on the Danish island of Funen.
History and architecture
The first references to Krengerup are from 1514 but the estate seems to be older. Since 1770, it h ...
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Kronborg Castle
Kronborg is a castle and stronghold in the town of Helsingør, Denmark. Immortalized as Elsinore in William Shakespeare's play ''Hamlet'', Kronborg is one of the most important Renaissance castles in Northern Europe and was inscribed on the UNE ...
Ledreborg Palace
Ledreborg is a palatial mansion near Lejre, to the southwest of Roskilde on the Danish island of Zealand. Today's Baroque building was completed in 1746 by Minister of State Johan Ludvig Holstein (1694–1763) who commissioned J.C. Krieger to c ...
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Lerchenborg
Lerchenborg is a manor house located 4 km south of Kalundborg on the west coast of Zealand, Denmark.
History Origins
The estate was established by Carl von Ahlefeldt when he closed down the village of Østrup to establish Østrupgård in 1704 ...
Malling Church
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* Malling Rural Sanitary District, Kent, England - (1875–1894)
* East Malling and West Malling, a village and town in the above Rural Sanitary District
* Malling Abbey, an abbey of Anglican Benedictine nuns located in West ...
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Marienlyst Palace
Marienlyst Castle (german: Marienlyst Slot) is a palatial residence located in Helsingør, Denmark. It was named after King Frederik V of Denmark's second wife, Juliana Maria, the queen consort of Denmark and Norway. The building formerly serve ...
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Marselisborg Palace
Marselisborg Palace, ( da, Marselisborg Slot, ) is a royal residence of the Danish Royal Family in Aarhus. It has been the summer residence of Queen Margrethe II since 1967.
There is a Palace Park in connection to the palace itself and outside ...
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Meilgaard Castle
Meilgaard Castle (Danish: ''Meilgård Gods'') is a castle and estate located in Glesborg Parish in Norddjurs Municipality, Denmark.
It is situated between Fjellerup Strand and Bønnerup Strand on the Djursland peninsula.
Niels Bugges Hald
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Nordborg Castle
Nordborg Castle ( da, Nordborg Slot) is a small castle which lies on the southern side of Nordborg Lake (''Nordborg Sø'') in Nordborg on the island of Als in Sønderborg Municipality, Denmark. The castle premises are currently used by Nordbor ...
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Nyborg Castle
Nyborg Slot is a restored medieval castle in Nyborg on the Danish island of Funen. The castle figures prominently in Danish history. It was here that King Eric V Klipping signed Denmark's first constitution in 1282. The castle was also the ven ...
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Nykøbing Castle
Nykøbing Castle ( da, Nykøbing Slot), now demolished, was located on today's Slotsbryggen in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. Completed in 1594 in the Renaissance style, it replaced an earlier building from the 12th century.Palaces and Properties Agency
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