Rosenholm Castle is Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

's oldest family-owned castle, and is one of the best-preserved complexes from the golden age of the manor house – from 1550 to 1630. Rosenholm Castle is founded in 1559 by the Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 nobleman Jørgen "George" Rosenkrantz. His family are among the oldest and most famous in the Danish history. Shakespeare chose to use the name in the play Hamlet

Hamlet

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. Later extended, standing complete in 1607 with four wings, clearly influenced by the Italian Renaissance style. The castle interior was modernised in the 1740s in the baroque style, at which time a large baroque garden was laid out, covering an area of 5 ha., with avenues of limetrees and hedgerows of beech. Rosenholm is fully furnished, with hundreds of items of furniture, paintings and tapestries.

Sights & attractions:
Built 1559-1607.
Manor house milieu over 450 years.
Anthroposophic

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 paintings by the painter Arild Rosenkrantz.
Baroque park with symmetrical avenues.
Rare gazebo, named Pirkentavl, from around 1560.
The manor Holm is known from the 14th century. It was owned by the Catholic Church, but at the Reformation

Protestant Reformation

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 in 1536 it came in possession of The Crown

The Crown

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. King Frederick II

Frederick II of Denmark

Frederick II was King of Denmark and Norway and duke of Schleswig from 1559 until his death.-King of Denmark:Frederick II was the son of King Christian III of Denmark and Norway and Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg. Frederick II stands as the typical renaissance ruler of Denmark. Unlike his father, he...

 exchanged it for some other estates to Jørgen Rosenkrantz in 1559. Same year he began the construction of a new main building called Rosenholm. Its architecture

Architecture

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 was very much different from other castle

Castle

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s in Denmark. It was mostly inspired from Italy

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. On the main facade

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 there was an open loggia

Loggia

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See also

• List of castles and palaces in Denmark
• Tourism in Denmark
  Tourism in Denmark
  Tourists in Denmark consist mainly of people from neighboring countries, especially Germany, followed by Sweden, Norway, and the Netherlands. With 4.7 million visitor arrivals in 2007, Denmark ranked 43rd in the UNWTO's World Tourism rankings...