Brahetrolleborg

Brahetrolleborg, the former Holme Abbey

Brahetrolleborg is a castle about 10 kilometres north-west of Fåborg on the island of Fyn, near the present Korinth. Before the Reformation it was Holme Abbey (Danish: Holme Kloster; Latin: Insula Dei), a Cistercian monastery.

Holme Abbey

For other uses, see Holme Abbey (disambiguation).

The abbey was founded and settled in 1172 from the Cistercian Herrevad Abbey in Scania, now in Sweden, of which it was a daughter house. It was secularised during the Reformation, probably in 1536.

Brahetrolleborg, 1896

After the abbey was secularised and taken into the possession of the Danish Crown, the Crown released it into private ownership. In 1568 it became the property of Heinrich Rantzau, from whom it acquired for a time the name Rantzausholm. After reverting again to the Crown in 1661, it was granted in 1664 by King Frederick III of Denmark to his court favourite, the German merchant and politician Christoffer Gabel, who exchanged it three years later for the chalk mountain of Segeberg with Birgitte Nielsdatter, of the Trolle family and married into the Brahe family, whence the name of the castle and also of her barony, Brahetrolleborg. The Trolles sold it in 1722 to Christian Detlev von Reventlow, the Oberpräsident of Altona, and the estate has remained until today in the Reventlow family.

Buildings

The former Cistercian church, laid out according to the plan of Saint Bernard, is now the chapel of Brahetrolleborg. It has a tower on the west front, and possesses a crucifix by Claus Berg of about 1500. The conventual buildings, located to the right of the church, were converted after secularisation for use as a castle, which was comprehensively overhauled in about 1870.

References

Venge, Michael, 1982: På sporet af Holme kloster. Fynske Arbøger 1982, pp. 27–38

Sources and external links

Brahetrolleborg Kirke (Danish)

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Coordinates: 55°09′N 10°22′E / 55.150°N 10.367°E / 55.150; 10.367

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