The First Christiansborg
It sounds almost unbelievable, but the building could have been called Christiansborg.
When General Christian Ditlev Reventlow took over the manor house in 1729, he renamed it Christiansborg and made it the centre of his newly established county. The Reventlow family were among the country’s most powerful families, with close ties to the royal family, and owned large parts of Lolland for seven generations.
Two places with the same name
The general’s son subsequently modernised the manor house in the elegant Rococo style of the time, inspired by the royal palaces. But at the same time, King Christian VI had his new palace built on Slotsholmen in Copenhagen. It was also to be called Christiansborg. Naturally, two manor houses could not bear the same name. Consequently, Christiansborg on Lolland had to change its name to the one we know today: Christianssæde.
When you later visit the Gallery, you can see what both Christianssæde and the first Christiansborg in Copenhagen looked like – and discover just how closely the two stories are actually intertwined.