Augustenborg Forest
You are now on your way through, what we might call, the “Pleasure Forest”, a forest designed for recreation. It was laid out by the duke at the same time as Augustenborg Palace. The Forest is an extension of the…
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The First Avenue
You are now walking along the First Avenue. The Avenue was laid out at the same time as the construction of the first Palace and is about 100 years older than the other two avenues in the forest. The First…
The Second Avenue
You are now walking along the Second Avenue, the middle one of the three lime tree avenues in Augustenborg Forest. It is 640 metres long and, together with Slotsallé the street opposite the Palace, forms a 1.3 kilometre long central…
The Third Avenue
You are now approaching the Third Avenue, which is the northernmost of the three lime tree avenues in Augustenborg forest. The avenue is about 500 meters long and ends, like the other two, at the fjord. The avenue begins when…
The King’s Jetty
At this site, where the northern path meets the First Avenue, there was originally a long jetty. It got its name when King Frederick VII visited Augustenborg in 1848, after the duke’s escape. There has always been a road to…
The Three Oath-Oaks
In 1674, a secret meeting took place under the three large oak trees that stood in this place in Augustenborg Forest. Three close friends of the town’s founder Duke Ernst Günther met to form a secret alliance to overthrow the…
The Rabbit Lake
The Rabbit Lake is located in the north-western part of Augustenborg Forest. It has survived from the original “pleasure forest”, which formed part of the Augustenborg Palace grounds. The site is described by the German garden theorist C.C.L. Hirschfeld, who…
Augustenborg Palace
The history of the House of Augustenborg began in 1651, when the founder of the town, Duke Ernst Günter, married his cousin, Princess Augusta of Glücksburg who was 24 years younger than him. In the same year he purchased a…
The White Mansion
The White Mansion was designed by the renowned Copenhagen architect Peter Meyn. However, as he never visited Augustenborg, the execution of his plans was placed in the hands of the duke’s master builder Hans Petersen Bram, nicknamed “Bleshøy” after the…
The Red Mansion
The Red Mansion, also known as the House of the Prince, is beautifully situated at the end of Palævej. The fact that the house can be seen from a long distance away tells you that this is an old and…