Liselund Castle
Liselund Castle is a classicist country house in an English landscape garden by the chalk cliffs of Møns Klint . It is the only outside location of the Danish National Museum on the island of Møn .
history
The smallest building in Denmark , called “castle”, is more of a country house or villa in terms of its dimensions and appearance . For this, however, it is composed by the client into the hilly surroundings on the beech forest edge of the cliff. The client was a landowner on the island. His Marienborg estate is about 20 kilometers away. The previous house to Liselund on the same spot has been known since the Middle Ages and was called Sømarkegaard. It was in 1783 when Crown Estate to the chamberlain sold Antoine de la Calmette, whose family from the Netherlands had come to Denmark. His father had only acquired Marienborg as a Dutch minister at the Danish court in 1777. When he bought it, Calmette renamed Sømarkegaard Liselund, after his wife Anna Catharine Elisabeth Iselin. The couple trained their taste for the style of French culture of the time on trips to France in 1790 and 1798/99. Added to this was the obsession with nature and the joy of rural primitivism and the simplicity of life, taken from the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau . Before Calmette built the house, he laid out the park landscape of Liselund for eight years . Part of it, a wild chasm with artificial ruins and a waterfall into the Baltic Sea as well as a small chapel with an onion dome , was lost in a major demolition on the cliff in 1905 and slipped into the sea.
After the death of the last generation of Calmette, Liselund and the associated farm became the property of a very noble Danish family, the Barons Rosenkrantz . Liselund Castle was inhabited by the widow Calmette until her death in 1867. In 1877, Gottlob Rosenkrantz built a new manor a reasonable distance away. In 1938 Liselund Palace and the park became part of a foundation and opened to the public for the first time.
description
The house is a joint project of the well-known country house architect Andreas Kirkerup and the very headstrong builder Calmette. The floor plan is T-shaped with four columns on the wide side as the main entrance with a terrace to the park. The thatched roof with its semicircular windows in dormer windows accommodates nine small bedrooms for guests. The kitchen is in the basement, which is opened by a deeply dug pond right at the back of the house. The ground floor consists of a vestibule behind the entrance, which is referred to in the building plans as the Chambre de Compagnie or Salon . On the right follows the monkey room , so named after a monkey, depicted on a wall mirror in the decoration, which, like the red bedroom, comes from the interior designer Joseph Christian Lillie . On the other hand, his authorship of Liselund's furniture has not been proven, but these are attributed to him in a number of individual pieces, not least because of the subtle coordination of their colors with his room concept. The most lavish room in this property, which was built for celebrations, is the dining room with its black and white painted floor. Through five double-leaf French patio doors, the room merges into nature on both long sides and on the narrow rear side, protected by the wide overhang of the thatched roof. The furniture in Liselund Palace is largely original.
Owner of Liselund
- 1636–1783: Crown Estate
- 1783–1803: Gérard Pierre Antoine Bosc de la Calmette
- 1803-1820: Charles Reinhard Bosc de la Calmette
- 1820–1843: Frederik Raben-Levetzau-Huitfeldt
- 1843–1884: Gottlob Emilius George Friedrich Rosenkrantz
- 1884–1920: Fritz Iver Verner Christian Rosenkrantz
- 1920–1956: Erik Gotlob Fritz Krabbe Rosenkrantz
- 1956–1970: Niels Oluf Fritz Hermann Rosenkrantz
- since 1970: Niels-Henrik Rosenkrantz
literature
- Ilsabe von Bülow: Joseph Christian Lillie (1760-1827). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-422-06610-6 .
- Aage Roussel: Liselund. Bars , undated (around 1965).
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Coordinates: 55 ° 0 '0.7 " N , 12 ° 31' 17.9" E