Liselund
Castle Liselund is a neoclassical country house in an English landscape garden at the chalk cliffs of Møn Klint. It is the only location outside of the Danish National Museum on the island of Møn.
History
The smallest " palace " building in Denmark is called its dimensions and appearance forth more of a country house or a villa. There is, however, composed into by the client in the hilly surroundings of the beech high forest edge of the cliff. The builder was landowner on the island. His estate Marie Borg is located about 20 kilometers away. The previous House of Liselund at the same place has been known since the Middle Ages and was Sømarkegaard. It was sold in 1783 as a royal demesne at the Chamberlain Antoine de la Calmette, whose family had come from the Netherlands to Denmark. His father had acquired in 1777 Marie Borg as Dutch Minister at the Danish court. Calmette named Sømarkegaard once said while buying in Liselund to, according to his wife Lisa Anna Catharine Elisabeth Iselin. The taste of both the style of the French culture of the time were the spouses on France Travel 1790 and 1798/99. Added to this was the nature of obsession and joy taken from the writings of Jean -Jacques Rousseau on rural primitivism and simplicity of life. Before Calmette built the house, he put first eight years of the parkland Liselund. Part of it, a wild gap with artificial ruins and waterfall in the Baltic Sea and a small chapel with Onion Dome, went with a large gash on the cliff lost in 1905 and slipped into the sea.
After the last generation Calmette death Liselund went in 1843 with the associated farm estate in the property of a uradligen Danish family over to the barons Rosenkrantz. Castle Liselund was further occupied by the widow Calmette until her death in 1867. Built in 1877 Gottlob Rosenkrantz a new manor house at a reasonable distance. 1938 Castle Liselund was first available with the park part of a foundation and the public.
Description
The house is a joint work of the famous country house architect Andreas Kirkerup with the quite wayward builders Calmette. The floor plan is T-shaped with four columns on the wide side as the main entrance with terrace overlooking the park. The thatched roof absorbs nine small bedroom for guests with its semi-circular windows in tow dormers. The kitchen is located in the basement, which is opened by a deeply excavated pond right at the back of the house. The ground floor consists of a vestibule inside the entrance, which is referred to in the construction plans as the Chambre de Compagnie or salon. Law follows the monkey room, named after a monkey shown on a wall mirror in the decoration, which comes as the Red bedroom of the interior designer Joseph Christian Lillie. Not proven, however, is his authorship of the furniture Liselund, but these are attributed to him in a number of individual pieces, not least because of the subtle tuning their color version to his room concept. Elaborately Rochester area for this celebration of festivals built property is the dining room with its black and white painted floor. Through five double-leaf French patio doors of the room on both sides and at the rear narrow side is protected by the broad overhang of the thatched roof over into nature. The furnishings of the castle Liselund is obtained largely original.