Palstrup, manor house in Viborg Municipality, Denmark
Palstrup is a manor house located a few kilometers south of Rødkærsbro in Viborg Municipality. The red brick building with two floors and a central gable sits on a large estate surrounded by two deep ditches crossed by stone bridges and scattered with four stone lion figures bearing a coat of arms.
The main house was built between 1722 and 1736 under the design of Janus Friedenreich, with possible involvement of builder Nicolaus Hinrich Rieman. In the early 1900s, businessman Chr. J. Kampmann purchased the property and commissioned his architect brother Hack Kampmann to modernize it, resulting in the addition of two new side buildings in 1919.
The name Palstrup refers to the estate's location in a quiet rural area of Viborg Municipality. Visitors can observe how the main house and surrounding worker buildings reflect the social structure and daily life of a working estate across different centuries.
Access to the estate is on foot using the stone bridges that cross the surrounding ditches to move between different areas. The property is best visited during dry weather when the paths around the main house and through the surrounding fields and woodlands are easier to walk.
Four stone lion figures bearing a coat of arms and the date 1656 still stand by the bridges over the ditches, marking the long earlier history of the property. These sculptures are remnants of an older fortification that occupied the same site before the current manor house was built.
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