Borreby Castle
Sign in to saveBorreby Castle (, ) is a fortified manor house located near Skælskør, Slagelse Municipality, in the south-west corner of the island of Zealand, in eastern Denmark. The present main building was constructed for chancellor Johan Friis in the middle of the 16th century. The estate was acquired by Joachim Melchior Holten Castenschiold in 1783 and has remained in the hands of his descendents since then.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in landmark_region, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under 1556 establishments in Denmark, Buildings and structures in Skælskør and Buildings and structures of the Castenschiold family.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- château
- Country
- Denmark
- Located in
- Slagelse Municipality
- Image
- Borreby Slot.JPG
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- Commons category
- Borreby Slot
- architectural style
- Gothic architecture
- commissioned by
- Johan Friis
- street address
- Borrebyvej 45-49, 4230 Skælskør
- inception
- 1556-00-00
- postal code
- 4230
- native label
- Borreby Slot
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- History
- Early history
- Friis and Daa families
- Changing owners, 1571{{ndash}}1783
- Castenschiold family
- Architecture
- Today
- In the 21st century
- List of owners
- References
- External links
Borreby Castle (, ) is a fortified manor house located near Skælskør, Slagelse Municipality, in the south-west corner of the island of Zealand, in eastern Denmark. The present main building was constructed for chancellor Johan Friis in the middle of the 16th century. The estate was acquired by Joachim Melchior Holten Castenschiold in 1783 and has remained in the hands of his descendents since then.
The main building and a number of other buildings were listed in the Danish register of protected buildings and places in 1918. A barn from 1593 has been converted into a theatre and music venue. The estate covers 722 hectares of land.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Borreby Castle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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2 mapped locations