Aalborghus

Aalborghus Castle is a castle in Aalborg, Denmark. It is a 1/2-timbered fort constructed by means of King Christian III from 1539 to around 1555 to begin with as a fortification. Soon it became the seat of the king's provincial governors in Northern Jutland, and after the advent of absolutism, became used by the State County of Northern Jutland for taxes. A constructing had existed at the web site earlier than Christian III's fort. It stood south of the castle and is noted within the first documentation of Aalborghus, relationship back to 1340. It changed into owned by Margrethe I and become the death place of King Hans in 1513 who died in a horse using accident.

King Frederik I had at the start intended to break the initial building around 1530 and transferring to a exceptional site to convert Aalborg's Franciscan monastery into a fortress. However he left the decision to his son Christian III, who later decided to demolish the authentic in 1539 and gotten smaller the royal architect Morten Bussert to build a new fortified fortress north of the vintage web page, close to the Limfjord.