Baroque Garden
As a perfect setting for Frederiksborg Castle the Baroque Garden lies immediately north of the Castle. With its formal avenues of magnificent trees and bushes and the cascade and flower beds it is a wonderful respite after your visit to the castle. Particularly worth seeing are the four ornamental royal monograms shaped in box tree. The garden is symmetrically designed around a central axis extending from the castle far into the landscape.
The Baroque Garden was laid out in the 1720s by Frederik IV. During the following centuries the garden grew out of style. Very little remained of the Baroque Garden in the 1990s when it was decided to re-establish it after the original drawings by the architect J.C. Krieger.
Visitors might want to extend their stroll into the surrounding romantic landscape garden with ancient trees, lakes, the Bath House Castle and Christian IV’s much fabled stone. The story tells that he laid the stone in the garden as a downhearted memory of the day from which his wife Kirsten Munk refused him admittance to her bedroom.
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Detail of royal monogram after the J.C. Krieger’s plan from c. 1725, The
re-opening in 1996 Royal Library
The Garden House Café is open:May and September: Saturday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm.
June, July and August: Monday-Thursday and Saturday-Sunday, 1pm-5pm.
For guided tours of the garden please call: (+45) 33 92 65 85 or e-mail: pfo@ses.dk
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