Charlottenlund Palace

Charlottenlund Castle is located north of Copenhagen in the municipality of Gentofte on the Danish island of Zealand.

The history of documented Charlottenlunds began in 1663, when King Frederick III. the land his valet Jacob Petersen transferred, who built an inn there. 1671 acquired Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, an illegitimate son of the king, the property, calling it Gyldenlund and let there irrigation ditches, fish ponds and walking paths create. 1690 reached the lands back into the hands of the royal family who finally settled there, building a country house.

1715 took over Crown Prince Christian ( later King Christian VI. ) Gyldenlund and donated it in 1730 to his sister, Princess Charlotte Amalie, whose name ( Charlottenlund ) it no longer wore. According to the architect Johan Cornelius Krieger led by the conversion work, the princess used the palace until her death in 1782 as a summer residence.

Then inhabited Princess Louise Charlotte and Landgrave William of Hesse -Kassel- Rumpenheim the lock until it was in 1869 by Crown Prince Frederick ( later King Frederick VIII ) and his wife, Princess Louise, adopted. They commissioned Ferdinand Meldahl with profound architectural changes. Between 1880 and 1881, he expanded the original Baroque palace with two wings and a dome and changed the facade in the style of the French Renaissance Revival.

Both King Christian X, and his brother Charles (the future Norwegian King Haakon VII ) were born in Charlotte Lund and the Danish royal family used the palace until 1935 as a summer residence.

Since 1935 the castle is Charlottenlund seat of the Danish Council for fishing and underwater research.

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