Bygholm Castle

Bygholm Castle is a former royal fortress and manor house located simply south of Horsens, Denmark. It traces its history back to 1313 but the modern-day Baroque buildings date from 1775. Owned by using Horsens Municipality, the primary constructing is now run as a lodge whilst the associated land is a public park and used as truthful grounds. Bygholm Castle was based in 1313 upon orders from King Eric VI Menved following a revolt among peasants in Jutland. The castle turned into run through a vassal.

The most famous of those to live at Bygholm become Erik Lange, who belonged to the circle round Tycho Brahe however skilled financial destroy, experimented with alchemy and left Bygholm in a kingdom of forget about. As a result, and possibly after a fire within the beginning of the seventeenth century, later vassals favored to are living at close by Stjernholm and the call of the price became modified hence. In 1661, Frederick III ceded the property to Peder von Ufelen from Hamburg. In 1670 he sold it to Joachim Werner Bülow, who rebuilt Bygholm and returned it to its former state of a manor.