Vallo Castle

Vallo Castle is a manor house placed 7 km south of Koge, in Stevns Municipality, on the island of Zealand in Denmark. It now serves as a house for Vallo stift, a domestic for unmarried, widowed and divorced women of noble descent. Vallo lines its records back to the 14th century. From 1554 to 1651 it become divided into two separate estates, West Vallo and East Vallo. In 1708 Vallo was acquired through King Frederick IV who passed it on to Anne Sophie Reventlow. In 1731 King Christian VI surpassed the belongings on to Queen Sophia Magdalene who in 1737 founded the Noble Vallo Foundation for Unmarried Daughters.

Vallo includes 4 wings with robust towers and is surrounded by way of a moat. The south wing, with its strong corner towers, and the south cease of the west wing have been built from 1580 to 1586 by means of Mette Rosenkrantz, one of the richest ladies in Denmark of her day. In Christen Skeel's time of possession, from 1638 to 1659, the citadel changed into extended to a few storeys and the west wing prolonged. The north wing was constructed by means of Johan Cornelius Krieger in 1721.