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Christiansborg Castle

Christiansborg Palace
Christiansborg Slot
Christiansborg Slot Copenhagen 2014 01.jpg
August 2014
Christiansborg Palace is located in Copenhagen
Christiansborg Palace
Location within Copenhagen
General information
Type Palace
Architectural style Baroque, Neoclassicism, Neo-baroque
Town or city Copenhagen
Country Denmark
Coordinates 55°40′33″N 12°34′44″E / 55.67583°N 12.57889°E / 55.67583; 12.57889
Construction started 1907
Completed 1928
Design and construction
Architect Elias David Häusser, Christian Frederik Hansen, Thorvald Jørgensen

Christiansborg Palace (Danish: Christiansborg Slot; pronounced [kʁesdjænsˈbɔːɐ̯ˀ ˈslʌd]) is a palace and government building on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the seat of the Danish Parliament (Folketinget), the Danish Prime Minister's Office and the Supreme Court of Denmark. Also, several parts of the palace are used by the Danish monarch, including the Royal Reception Rooms, the Palace Chapel and the Royal Stables.

The palace is thus home to the three supreme powers: the executive power, the legislative power, and the judicial power. It is the only building in the world that houses all three of a country's branches of government. The name Christiansborg is thus also frequently used as a metonym for the Danish political system, and colloquially it is often referred to as Rigsborgen (English: castle of the realm) or simply Borgen (English: the castle).

The present building, the third with this name, is the last in a series of successive castles and palaces constructed on the same site since the erection of the first castle in 1167. Since the early fifteenth century, the various buildings have served as the base of the central administration; until 1794 as the principal residence of the Danish kings and after 1849 as the seat of parliament.

The palace today bears witness to three eras of Danish architecture, as the result of two serious fires. The first fire occurred in 1794 and the second in 1884. The main part of the current palace, finished in 1928, is in the historicist Neo-baroque style. The chapel dates to 1826 and is in a neoclassical style. The showgrounds were built 1738-46, in a baroque style.


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