Ledreborg
Ledreborg is a palatial mansion near Lejre, 12 km to the southwest of Roskilde on the Danish island of Zealand. Today's Baroque building was completed in 1746 by Minister of State Johan Ludvig Holstein who commissioned J.C. Krieger to carry out the work.Photo: Bococo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sagnlandet Lejre and Lejre railway station.
Sagnlandet Lejre
Museum
Photo: Per Meistrup, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sagnlandet Lejre or Lejre Land of Legends is an open-air archaeology museum on the island of Zealand in Denmark. It is situated 4 km northwest of the town of Lejre and 1 km west of Gammel Lejre, which was a major political centre in Iron Age Scandinavia.
Lejre railway station
Railway station
Lejre railway station is a railway station serving the railway town of Lejre west of the city of Roskilde on the island of Zealand, Denmark. The station is located in the central part of the town and also serves the nearby village of Gammel Lejre, the Ledreborg manor house and the archaeological open-air museum Land of Legends.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lejre and Øm.
Lejre
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0 fr.
Lejre is a railway town in the northwestern part of the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. It has a population of 3,347. The town is located in Lejre Municipality in Region Zealand. The town's Old Norse name was Hleiðr or Hleiðargarðr.
Øm
Village
Øm is a village with a population of 445 in Lejre Municipality, located six kilometers southwest of Roskilde on the island of Zealand in Denmark. Øm is situated 4 km east of Ledreborg.
Gevninge
Village
Photo: Moeng, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gevninge is a small town, with a population of 1,636, in Lejre Municipality on the island of Zealand in Denmark. Its old section is located alongside a small river, Lejre Å, approximately 2 kilometres from its mouth at Roskilde Fjord. Gevninge is situated 4½ km north of Ledreborg.
Ledreborg
- Type: Estate
- Description: manor in Denmark
- Categories: château and agriculture
- Location: Lejre Kommune, Region Zealand, Denmark, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Ledreborg” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Ledreborg”
- Danish: “Lejregård”
- German: “Schloss Ledreborg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ledreborg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lejregård”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ledreborg”
- Polish: “Ledreborg”
- Russian: “замок Ледреборг”
- Swedish: “Ledreborg”
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