Brundlund Castle
The Brundlund Castle (Danish Brundlund Slot ) is located in the Danish town of Aabenraa in southern Jutland . After Brundlund Castle served as an official building into the 20th century, it has now undergone extensive restoration and has been home to a public art museum that exhibits Danish painting and sculptures from the 19th century to the present day.
historical overview
Brundlund Castle was built under the Danish Queen Margaret I from 1411 after she was able to bring the former Aabenraa under her rule. The former moated castle , which originally had a fortress-like character, served for centuries as the seat of the bailiff as well as the royal, ducal and municipal administration. In the 16th century the building was expanded into a palace in the Renaissance style. After the last resident left Brundlund Castle in 1996, the city of Aabenraa took it over and set up today's art museum from 1998. The former castle mill with mill wheel - originally the castle's bridge tower - is now used as a café on summer weekends.
The art museum mainly houses Danish paintings, graphics and sculptures from the period after 1920 as well as individual works from the 19th century, etc. a. Pictures by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, who is also known in Germany . Today the museum feels particularly committed to the artists from Sønderjylland and organizes temporary exhibitions. There are also sculptures by contemporary Danish sculptors in the palace gardens.
Castle complex
The castle and the gardens are on an island, surrounded by a moat that is wide in the east and narrower in the west. The original character of the moated castle is still recognizable. The castle building consists of a cuboid body flanked on three sides by towers; two of them house salons in their interior, the south-western one serves as a stair tower. On the east side of the building is the gatehouse, which is connected to the north via a causeway with an avenue with the forecourt on the "mainland"; one of the oldest preserved watermills in Denmark (around 1530) is located here.
The entire castle is largely free of architectural decorations; only the facades facing the landscape garden are emphasized by a simple colonnade with Doric columns. Another major renovation took place at the beginning of the 19th century under CF Hansen , who remodeled the castle from 1805 to 1807, partly in a classical style. It has been preserved in this form to the present; a thorough restoration took place between 1983 and 1985.
See also
literature
- JP Trap: Danmark . Edited by Niels Nielsen, Peter Skautrup and Therkel Mathiassen, vol. 10, vol. 3. Gads Forlag, Copenhagen 1967, pp. 809-814.
Coordinates: 55 ° 2 ′ 21.3 " N , 9 ° 24 ′ 50.8" E