Koldinghus

Koldinghus is a magnificent, weather-beaten building from five centuries, which also contains distinguished rooms such as the knight's hall, the castle church and the library hall, as well as a gloomy dungeon. From the top of the Giant Tower there is a magnificent view. The newly restored wings by architects Inger and Johannes Exner are a world-class attraction.

In the heart of Kolding, the Danish king Erik Glipping built a castle in 1268 to guard the border between the Kingdom of Denmark and the Duchy of Schleswig. The oldest preserved parts that can be seen today are from the 1400th century. In the mid-1500th century, the castle was rebuilt into a castle without defensive works, and around 1600 the giant tower was built. At that time, the king often stayed at Koldinghus. In the 1720s, it was rebuilt again, but the court now came here only rarely, and the castle was allowed to fall into disrepair.

In 1808, Spanish auxiliary troops in the Napoleonic Wars fired so hard in a tiled stove that the castle burned down. It was not until 1890 that rebuilding began.

Koldinghus is today a modern museum and houses collections that include interiors from the 1500th century to the present day, Romanesque and Gothic church sculpture, older Danish visual arts, and handicrafts with an emphasis on ceramics and silver. The museum is also home to Denmark's largest collection of modern and contemporary Danish silver.

Read more at www.koldinghus.dk