Egelund Castle is a former royal residence built by Queen Dowager Louise Josephine from 1915 to 1917 on the road between Hillerød

Hillerød

Hillerød Kommune is a municipality in Region Hovedstaden . The municipality covers an area of 191 km² , and has a total population of 46,568...

 and Fredensborg

Fredensborg

Fredensborg is a railway town with a population of 8,377 located in Fredensborg Municipality, Denmark at the railroad between Hillerød and Helsingør....

, near the village of Nødebo and the southern tip of Lake Esrom, 35 km north of Copenhagen

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...

, Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

. Today it is owned by Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening and used as a congress and training centre.

History

Queen Louise Josephine Consort of King Frederik VIII of Denmark, was widowed in 1912. From 1915 to 1917 the castle was built and she took up residence there.

The architect was Carl Harild and the garden was designed by landscape architect Edvard Glæsel and later J. P. Andersen as well as Egelund's resident gardener Hansen. After the queen's death in 1926, the property was inherited by Prince Gustav of Denmark

Prince Gustav of Denmark

Prince Gustav of Denmark and Iceland Copenhagen, 4 March 1887 – Egelund, 5 October 1944) was the seventh child and fourth son of Frederick VIII of Denmark and his wife, Princess Louise of Sweden and Norway....

, who remained unmarried and had no children. After his death in 1944, the estate passed to Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark and Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark

Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark

Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark and Iceland was a crown princess of Denmark by marriage to Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark.-Birth:...

. In 1954 Dansk Arbejdsgiverforening bought Egelund from the heirs to use it as a congress and training venue.