Hirschholm Palace Garden

Köpenhamn · Danmark · Slottsruin · Uhygge 2/5

The Versailles of the North was demolished because it 'died of shame' – here the queen and Struensee lived their doomed summer of love in 1771.

On an islet in Hørsholm only a church stands today where one of Europe's most magnificent palaces once rose. Hirschholm Palace, completed in 1744 and called the Versailles of the North, became the stage for the greatest scandal in Danish history: in the summer of 1771 Queen Caroline Mathilde moved here with her lover, royal physician Struensee, who was then ruling the realm in place of the mentally ill King Christian VII. During the infamous Hirschholm summer the queen gave birth to a daughter, Louise Augusta – officially the king's child, in everyone's eyes Struensee's. The following spring Struensee was toppled and executed; the queen was banished and died soon after. The palace then stood abandoned, as if no one dared touch it – in 1810 its demolition was ordered, and it was said to have died of shame. Among the avenues of the palace garden, the shadows of that doomed summer are said to linger still.

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Hirschholm Palace Garden har en uhyggefaktor på 2/5 ifølge Haunted Places’ verificerede vurderinger.

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Hirschholm Palace Garden ligger i Köpenhamn, Danmark.