Charlottenborg Palace
The Charlottenborg Palace ( Danish Charlottenborg Slot ) in Copenhagen was a secondary residence of the Danish royal family. The building in downtown Copenhagen now houses the Charlottenborg Art Hall and is the seat of the Royal Danish Academy of Art .
history
17th and 18th centuries
The property was a gift from King Christian IV to his mistress Wiebke Kruse , who had a pleasure and kitchen garden laid out here. After their death, the property went to their son Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve . He died in 1658 at the age of 28, and the next owner of the property was Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve , an illegitimate son of King Frederick III. Ulrik Frederik was thus the half-brother of the Crown Prince and later King Christian V. From him he received permission to build a suitable residence.
Christian V wanted an expansion of the still medieval town and planned in this context the Kongens Nytorv (New King's Market), a public square that should be lined with stately buildings. The castle was built from 1672 to 1683 according to plans by the architect Hans van Steenwinckel and was initially called Gyldenløves Palais . It was the first permanent building on Kongens Nytorv .
After the death of King Christian V, the palace was bought in 1699 by his widow Charlotte Amalie von Hessen-Kassel (1650–1714) in order to use it as a widow's residence. The building was expanded and finally named Charlottenborg after her. Charlotte Amalie lived here until her death.
In 1754 the facility was transferred to the Royal Danish Academy of Art , which is still located in the castle today.
present
The Charlottenborg Art Hall is a regular venue for large exhibitions. The palace was restored in 2007 and the exhibition rooms were reopened in January 2008.
Architecture and garden
The executive architect was Ewert Jansen from the Netherlands . The city palace, built of brown brick, is a four-wing complex around a closed courtyard. Jansen executed the three-storey building in the style of the simple Dutch Baroque as a large city palace. The entrance front, adorned with pilasters, is directly on Kongens Nytorv, the north wing on Nyhavn . The rear facade once faced the extensive gardens, this so-called Charlottenborg Have was the first baroque garden in Copenhagen.
The palace garden was integrated into the city's botanical garden in the 19th century, but there are hardly any traces of it today. Until the end of the 19th century, the area behind the castle was gradually built on and the botanical garden rebuilt after the demolition of the Copenhagen ramparts at Rosenborg Castle .
See also
Web links
- Kunsthal Charlottenborg Homepage of the Kunsthalle (Danish / English)
Coordinates: 55 ° 40 ′ 48.6 " N , 12 ° 35 ′ 14.6" E