Roskilde Royal Mansion

Roskilde Mansion, additionally known as Roskilde Palace and because the Yellow Mansion, is a former royal Baroque mansion in vital Roskilde, Denmark. Located just east of Roskilde Cathedral, it now homes each an exhibition venue for modern-day art and the office and legitimate house of the Bishop of Roskilde. Roskilde Mansion changed a bishop's palace which had stood at the site since the Middle Ages. Commissioned by means of King Christian VI, the brand new constructing changed into constructed to offer a residence for the royal family after they surpassed via the town or attended royal funerals and other ceremonies in Roskilde Cathedral.

Lauritz de Thurah who had currently been engaged as royal grasp builder, turned into charged with its design in 1733 and the palace become finished in 1736. During the English siege of Copenhagen in 1807, the mansion served as headquarters of fashionable Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington. Later in the century, it furnished a venue for the so-known as Assembly of the Estates, a key event main up to the adoption of the Danish constitution in 1849.