Skansepalæet ( Lit.: Sconce Palace) is a residential building in

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...

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situated in the

Frederiksbjerg Frederiksbjerg is a borough in Aarhus, Denmark. Frederiksbjerg is part of the postal district Aarhus C and is located just south of the historical city centre, separated from it by a broad railway yard and connected by three bridges. Despite bein ...

neighborhood. The building comprises ''Standvejen'' 34-36 and ''Heibergsgade'' 25-27. Skansepalæet was built in 1908 by designs of the Danish architect Hjalmar Kjær as a hotel in connection with the

Danish National Exhibition of 1909 The Danish National Exhibition of 1909 or The National Exhibition in Aarhus 1909 ( Danish: Landsudstillingen i Aarhus) was an industry, crafts and culture exhibition held in Aarhus, Denmark in 1909 from 18 May to 3 October. The exhibition displayed ...

. Today the building is an apartment complex owned by its residents.

History

The building is named for the sconce erected by

Albrecht von Wallenstein Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland (; 24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein (), was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1618–16 ...

on the site in 1627 when he occupied Aarhus during the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in History of Europe, European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from battle, famine ...

. The fortification was used as a base for raids throughout

Jutland Jutland (; , ''Jyske Halvø'' or ''Cimbriske Halvø''; , ''Kimbrische Halbinsel'' or ''Jütische Halbinsel'') is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein). It ...

until the war ended and it was abandoned. The area was at the time a part of the Marselisborg Manor. In the late 1800s the neighborhood

was almost fully developed and the city council started negotiations with the owner of Marselisborg Manor and

Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...

, Hans Peter Ingerslev, to buy the manor. On 18 April 1896 Ingerslev signed the agreement to sell most of his estate to the city and then subsequently died two days later. The Municipality honored the agreement and bought the manor including the

Marselisborg Forests Marselisborg Forests (), or simply Marselisborg Forest, is a forest to the south of Aarhus City in the Kingdom of Denmark. Many present day sources now includes the forest of Fløjstrup, as part of the Marselisborg Forests, upping the total area ...

. The Skanseparken (Sconce Park) was established in the area in 1901-02. In 1909 Aarhus hosted the

and Skansepalæet was built as a hotel for tourists and visitors where the former sconce had been. After the exhibition the building was turned into an apartment complex.

Architecture

The building was commissioned by Rasmus Hviid who built a number of structures in Aarhus at the time. The Danish architect Hjalmar Kjær designed it along the urban development plans designed for the

Marselisborg Marselisborg is a small borough of Aarhus, Denmark. Being small and situated just south of Frederiksbjerg, Marselisborg is often considered part of Frederiksbjerg. History Like most of the boroughs outside the inner city of Aarhus, Marselisbor ...

area by

Hack Kampmann Hack Kampmann (6 September 1856 – 27 June 1920) was a Danish architect, Royal Inspector of Listed State Buildings in Jutland and professor at the architecture department of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Marselisborg Palace in Aarhus, ...

and Charles Ambt. The overall plan for the area contains many boulevards, squares, and green spaces which still characterize the area today. The intention was to attract wealthier people to the area and the building was designed with apartments larger than was common and with modern amenities such as

central heating A central heating system provides warmth to a number of spaces within a building from one main source of heat. A central heating system has a Furnace (central heating), furnace that converts fuel or electricity to heat through processes. The he ...

. The building is in

Neoclassical style Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassici ...

but drawing inspiration from

Baroque revival The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. It followed Renaissance art and Mannerism and preceded the Rococo (in ...

and

Art Nouveau Art Nouveau ( ; ; ), Jugendstil and Sezessionstil in German, is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, especially the decorative arts. It was often inspired by natural forms such as the sinuous curves of plants and ...

. The building is constructed of red brick on a base of rough cut granite. The windows are also framed by horizontal bands of granite. The building appear relatively complex with a large 7-story castle-like tower, shifted floors and different

dormer window A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof. A dormer window (also called ''dormer'') is a form of roof window. Dormers are commonly used to increase the usable spac ...

s, balconies and bay windows. In 2011-12 a small communal building was added along with a tool shed and a playground, designed by Peter Skjalm from the studio RUM3.

External links

Official website
* Skansepalæet on Wikimedia Commons

References

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