Torup Castle

Torup is one of the best preserved medieval castles in Scandinavia dating back with a history back to the time around 980. The building has three floors and was built mainly of bricks. On the square plan includes in the northwest an octagonal and to the southeast by a round tower.

Directly on the castle is a 365 -acre recreational area with walking, jogging and riding trails that lead through a beech forest. A warehouse building from the 18th century was established as a gathering place for visitors. There are locker rooms, a weight training center and a café.

History

The construction of the castle was begun in the mid-16th century by the Danish landowner Görvel fader yolk from the noble family Sparre. About her third husband, Imperial Council Lave Brahe (1500-1567), the castle passed to the Grubbe family. During this time the castle was often visited by King Christian IV, who gave the order to his soldiers, a lake dam up around the building. This lake existed until 1775. Torup In the following period included, among other Corfitz Ulfeldt, the Danish royal family and the nobility Beck family.

In the 1790s it was the residence of the Austrian bailiff Franz Xaver Schober ( 1759-1802 ), whose four children were born here, including the poet Franz von Schober ( 1796-1882 ).

1811 gathered 1,000 to 1,500 slaves on Torup castle to protest against Charles XIV John and the Statewide forced patterning. This results in a peasant uprising was put down shortly after bloody developed.

The castle was about 1812 Family Stjernblad and the Lord Chamberlain Gustaf Julius Coyet ( 1775-1862 ), who had renovated the dilapidated building. Through marriage, the castle came in the 20th century to the family of leithner, who sold it in 1950 to the city of Malmö. The heirs of the family of leithner have a right to use up to 2035.