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Location

  • Denmark, Hørsholm
  • geo:55.875626,12.501187
  • Location: correct and verified

Period or year

  • 1740 / 1813

Classification

  • fort
  • Visible

Hirschholm Palace

data access 101883

Know in its time as the Versailles of the North. It was a Royal Palace in the city of Hørsholm being involved in the controversy of the "royal affair" between Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Mathilda in the 1770s. It was a combination of this affair and bugdet contrainst that caused to Palace to fall into Disrepair and later be demolished in 1813. Today only the moats of the Palace are visible aswell as the adjecent farm buildings that stand to this day. 

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Creators: Entry created by Pelle Sophus Rattunde Larsen (2025-09-24) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/101883
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: Sophus, P. , Hirschholm Palace. https://vici.org/vici/101883, accessed 2026-04-04.