Hotel DRONNINGLUND SLOT (Dronninglund, Brønderslev)

Style of hotel and ambience

-Property description-, dronninglund has 22 rooms - and a banqueting hall, a tower room a wine cellar a room with an open, fireplace and different other premises. The castle, regards every event as a test and quality, gastronomy flexibility and service are the pride, of the place. Castle weekend stays with 3-course, good gastronomy gourmet stays with 4-course, gourmet menu and golf stays. 25 minutes by car to, aalborg airport., ., It was the benedictine nuns who founded a nunnery, in the 1100s in these beautiful surroundings in, vendsyssel. They called it hundslund kloster and, it is probably one of the oldest nunneries in, denmark. After the reformation in 1536 the danish, king became the owner of the nunnery and later on, two of the most powerful men and members of the, kings council corfitz ulfeldt and peder munk owned, the nunnery. In 1581 the squire hans johansen, lindenow arrived on the scene and he turned it, into a modern manor by the standards of that time., There are still remains of both the nunnery and, lindenows manor but the present buildings date, mainly from the 1800s., ., Dronninglund appears regularly in the danish, history - not the least in the time from 1690 to, 1729 when the danish king owned it. King christian, the 5ths queen charlotte amalie resided here and, it was she who named the manor dronninglund. Among, the later owners we find count adam gottlob moltke, who built the magnificent castle garden., ., In the previous century we find among other owners, the aalborg ship-owner niels k stroeyberg whose, wife was the sister of the author agnes, henningsen. Her son the famous architect poul, henningsen often visited dronninglund - and, perhaps he got inspired here to make his many, famous lamps., ., Today the old nunnery and castle is a, well-equipped and functional hotel and conference, centre with all modern facilities. Moreover, dronninglund slot provides each year the setting, for up to 100 weddings and numerous birthdays, jubilees etc., .