Talk:Marselisborg Palace

Questions

 * Why was the palace suddenly on the hands of the Danish people (which, I take, means the Folketing) instead of the Marselis family?
 * In the first paragraph, there are three mentions of "summer residence" or "summer". Please fix this redundancy.
 * Suddenly it says "The building was rebuilt by the Danish architect Hack Kampmann", without any context, really. Why was it rebuilt? Could this be given its own paragraph?
 * Punkmorten (talk) 23:04, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * 1) The official website of the Danish monarchy says "the Marselis dynasty were unable to remain in Marselisborg", which isn't really a reason...hence why I omitted it from the article. 2) You already seem to have fixed 3) The website of the Danish monarchy merely says "The current palace was rebuilt in 1899 – 1902 by Architect Hack Kampmann." As far as I can see (my Danish isn't too good). I can't seem to find more info. Even www.ses.dk don't seem to have an article. Best, --Cameron* 23:45, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

"Marselisborg Castle has no connection to the manor Marselisborg that have lain farther to the city. 20 May 1898 the City of Aarhus disposed 10 acres of land available for the Prince Castle, which it was called then. Architect Hack Kampmann got together with the Copenhagen city engineer Charles Ambt task to prepare building plans. The gardener L. Chr. Diederichsen got the task of bringing the park. The castle was built in 1899-1902 by architect Hack Kampmann. It was the people's wedding gift to Prince Christian and Princess Alexandrine (later King Christian X and Queen Alexandrine) who used it as a summer residence. They were transferred Marselisborg Castle on 7 June 1902 amid great festivity in Aarhus. The castle was donated as a gift to "future should belong to His Royal Highness and the same high level at any time reigning king of Denmark," and can not be inherited by others of the royal family, than that also inherit the throne. By Queen Alexandrine's death in 1952, King Frederik IX too over the palace. In 1967, King Frederik IX ceded the right to use the castle for his daughter, the heir crown princess Margrethe (II) and Prince Henrik. At the same time the castle was renovated with funds received by people the gift from 1967. Queen Margaret II inherited Marselisborg Castle, when King Frederik died in 1972.
 * The Marselisborg Slot (castle) has no connection to The Marselis Family. Here is the rigth story. Perhaps someone could make this "Google-English" into a better translation :-) - to edit the article.

Kurt. Denmark --86.52.54.135 (talk) 11:15, 8 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Thank you Kurt! I have now provided the proper references and links to Aarhus City Museum. RhinoMind (talk) 15:00, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

From the website of the royal house I understand that the place was first called 'Havreballegaard' and was sold in 1661 by the Danish Monarch to Dutch merchant Marselis. Obviously the current manor is not the 17th century one, but wether it is on the same site or that it is the result of continous change or complete built new in 1898 as Kur's story says I do not know. The Marcelisfamily could not hold on to the property and it changed owners over the next 200 years until it came in the hands of the people of Denmark who gave it to th eking, not as a person but to th einstitution of the king — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geo2011 (talk • contribs) 14:44, 7 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi. 'Havreballegaard' was a large manor placed where Marselisborg Gymnasium is nowadays. Havreballegaard was renamed to "Marselis Castle" by the Marselis family. Marselis Castle (Danish: Marselisborg) then gave name to the extensive Marselis estate and many place names in the area. Marselisborg burned down eventually and does not exist anymore, only in the placenames... I have tried to clear up the complicated story in the article. Please give feedback if more info is needed RhinoMind (talk) 15:00, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Answer

I have tried to raise the quality of the text in the article and at the same time clear up the murky details of how the Palace came about and how "the Danish people" got involved in the story as well. The references are to be found at the Aarhus City-museum. They have put up several articles on their website, which I have linked to now. Unfortunately the material is only presented in the original language of Danish. Im a Dane and have distilled and translated the facts from those articles and is now a lot wiser myself about the whole thing :-) If there is any more questions or cloudy details, please post them here.

RhinoMind (talk) 14:47, 5 October 2013 (UTC)