Charlottenlund Palace
Charlottenlund Palace is located north of Copenhagen in the Gentofte municipality on the Danish island of Zealand .
The documented history of Charlottenlund began in 1663 when King Friedrich III. transferred the property to his valet Jacob Petersen, who built an inn there. In 1671, Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve , an illegitimate son of the king, bought the property, named it Gyldenlund, and had irrigation ditches, fish ponds and hiking trails built there. In 1690 the land came back into the possession of the royal family, who finally had a country seat built there.
Crown Prince Christian (later King Christian VI ) took over Gyldenlund around 1715 and gave it to his sister, Princess Charlotte Amalie, whose name (Charlottenlund) it was from then on. After the renovation work, led by the architect Johan Cornelius Krieger , the princess used the castle as a summer residence until her death in 1782.
Thereafter, Princess Louise Charlotte and Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen -Kassel-Rumpenheim lived in the castle until it was taken over by Crown Prince Friedrich (later King Friedrich VIII. ) And his wife, Princess Louise , in 1869 . They commissioned Ferdinand Meldahl to make far-reaching architectural changes. Between 1880 and 1881 he expanded the original baroque palace with two side wings and a dome and changed the facade in the French neo-Renaissance style .
Both King Christian X and his brother Karl (who later became King Håkon VII of Norway ) were born in Charlottenlund and the Danish royal family used the castle as a summer residence until 1935.
Since 1935 Charlottenlund Palace has been used by Denmark's Technical University (DTU). In 2015 it was put up for sale.
Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 1.5 ″ N , 12 ° 34 ′ 49.5 ″ E
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