Gjorslev

Gjorslev is a cruciform medieval castle located 17 km south-east of Koge, at the Stevns Peninsula, Stevns Municipality, a few forty kilometres south of Copenhagen, Denmark. Originally owned by using the Bishop of Roskilde, it's miles taken into consideration one of the maximum nicely-preserved examples of Gothic secular architecture in Denmark. Gjorslev was built in about 1400 by Peder Jensen Lodehat, Bishop of Roskilde. It remained in the ownership of the Roskilde bishops until the Reformation which led to its confiscation in 1537. It became bought in 1540 and became then in the ownership of changing owners till 1678 while it came beneath the Crown yet again.

It turned into then owned by means of the Lindencrone own family from 1763 to 1791, from 1793 to 1923 via the Scavenius family, and from 1925 and till the cutting-edge it's been within the ownership of the Tesdorpf own family. Gjorslev is surrounded by using moats and constructed to a cruciform design within the Gothic fashion. The building substances are a mixture of nearby limestone from the Cliffs of Stevns and huge bricks.