The Castle Gardens

The gardens surrounding the huge building complex represented the finishing touch in the creation of Frederiksborg Castle. Christian IV had his own garden, but in 1720 J. Krieger was commissioned to create a new Castle garden. The pleasure palace Sparepenge was demolished to make way for a stunning Baroque garden, which as the style of the age dictated was symmetrically constructed with perfectly straight hedges.

From the end of the 18th century the Baroque Garden became run down and was not recreated until the 1990s. The lowest plateaus in the garden contain the royal monograms for Frederik IV, Frederik V, Christian VI and Margrethe II, designed in closely trimmed hedges surrounded by dome-shaped box trees. These are the four monarchs, under whom the complex has existed: from Fredrik IV’s creation of the garden to its recreation in Queen Margrethe’s time.

The Baroque Garden is not the Castle’s only garden. To the left of the Baroque Garden is the romantic, English-style garden, where the small Bath House Castle is also located. With its small lakes and shrubberies the Romantic Garden was created to convey moods and present the beauty of nature. By contrast, the straight lines and sharp angles of the Baroque Garden display the beauty implicit in mankind’s control of nature.