Soeborg Castle - Castle Ruin  between Gilleleje and Graested

village Soeborg in North Zealand is today the ruins of Soeborg Castle. In the Middle Ages Soeborg Castle one of the largest and best-fortified castles. Several kings stayed for periods of Søborg including Erik Menved and Valtemar Atterday whose daughter Margrethe I also was born in the castle. Since the plant was considered to be very safe, it was also used as a prison for the most dangerous enemies of the Crown.

Soeborg castle was in the Middle Ages an important fortress, located in Soeborg lake. At the castle was the market town Soeborg. The plant was built in several phases. According to tradition, was Bishop Eskildsdatter builder in the mid-1100s. Valdemar the Great captured the castle in 1161, after which it came to the Crown's ownership. Valdemar IV expands seemingly facility in 1300. The castle was destroyed during the Count's Feud and the county completed under the hook. In the 1790s commenced archaeological investigations by the parish priest, and in 1850 made ​​Frd. VII studies of the castle island. The National Museum has studied and restored ruins from Ex 1900 to 1947, where it stopped abruptly at CM Smidts death.

In the present visions Soeborg castle ruin in Zealand not much in the landscape. But in the middle of the 1100s it was an important point of reference for the bishop of Zealand.

When disagreements with the Archbishop Eskildsdatter took King Valdemar the Great, the solidly built castle in 1161st

can be read in several places that the Soeborg and other nordsjællandske buildings from the time (Gurre Castle Esrum ) was built with less mission stone than can be seen in Ringsted and Soro,but there are less tiles in Hammershuus. The tiles are very unevenly prepared, but fired clay brick was completely new to the Danes. Brick Distilleries was built near the places where you had to build, and actual works with standard sizes of stone was added later. Clay was known from southern countries and from Lombardy came brick makers and masons to help the Danes started. From the beginning it was only people of the church, kings and great men who had the means to build with the new material.

in the Middle Ages the castle was on an island in a fjord connected to the Kattegat by Gilleleje. Later was fjord to søborg Lake, which was drained 1872-96 by the digging of a channel (Soeborg Channel), which like the fjord resulted in Gilleleje .

Soeborg Castle was used as a state prison for several periods. The most famous prisoner was Archbishop Jens Grand imprisoned on Soeborg castle in 1294-95 because he was suspected of working against King Erik Menved. A contemporary chronicler describes the miserable dungeon where the archbishop sat chained to a block. He refused to go into the king's conditions and was supported by the pope, who threatened the king with excommunication. However, it was eventually Jens Grand flee eighteen months later, with the help of his faithful servant Morten. At first he went to his castle Hammershuus on the island, and since he went on to Rome.

Also Buri Henriksen been a prisoner here; He was introduced in 1167 and was probably trapped here until his death.

Soeborg Castle was inhabited until the Count's Feud in 1534-35, where they believe it was destroyed. In 1577 it was placed under Kronborg and the sheriff was permitted to break stones on Soeborg.

Soeborg Church was built around 1180 as a market town church in relation to the castle.

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