The park of Frederiksborg Castle ( da, Frederiksborg Slotshave) is located to the north and west of

Frederiksborg Castle 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 ...

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's new Frederiksborg Castle. It became known as Lille Dyrehave ("Little Deer Park") when

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("Large Deer Park") was created immediately to the south of the town a few years later. He also had a garden at the North Zealand residence. The Castle Lake featured a small island, Dronningeøen ("The Queen's Isle"), which was used for tea parties, as well as a fountain designed as a swimming deer chased by hunting dogs. Another feature was the pavilion Sparepenge next to the road to

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, which contained a collection of weapons. Sparepenge was pulled down in 1719, while the fountain was dismantled in the middle of the century.

Frederick IV's Baroque garden

In 1720,

Johan Cornelius Krieger Johan Cornelius Krieger (1683–1755) was a Danish architect and landscape architect, who from the 1720s served as both the country's chief architect, and head of the royal gardens. Krieger oversaw the construction of Fredensborg Palace and its ...

was charged with the design of a new garden for the castle. About 1800, Frederick VII converted the areas Lille Dyrehave and Indelukket to the west of the Baroque garden into a Romantic landscape garden. The Baroque garden fell into neglect in the late 18th century.

The Romantic garden

Today

The Baroque garden was recreated in a somewhat modified form in the first half of the 1990s. A water feature cascades down the central axis of the terraced complex. The park contains a memorial to Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow. It was inaugurated on 15 August 1884 to mark the 100th anniversary of the agricultural reforms in which he played a central role. The upper, northernmost part of the Baroque garden is home to Café Havehuset, a half-timbered, thatched building now used as a café. In summer, the café is open for lunch (11–3:30) Tuesday–Sunday.

Activities

A tour boat operates on the lake. The building Badstueslottet is still used by the royal family in connection with hunts in the surrounding forests. The park hosts an annual garden show.

Image gallery

Image:Frederiksborg Castle Park - tree.jpg, Tree in the Romantic section of the garden Image:Frederiksborg Castle - water feature.jpg, View of the castle from the Baroque garden Image:Frederiksborg Castle - memorial column.jpg, The Reventlow Column Image:Frederiksborg Castle - parterre.jpg, The parterre Image:Frederiksborg Slotssø - boat service.jpg, The boat service

References

External links

Frederiksborg Castle – Museum of National History

Brochure about the garden

Café Havehuset

Source
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