page_title: Borreby Castle
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Borreby Castle / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Portbygningen ved Borreby Slot syd for Skælskør på Sydvestsjælland. English: The gatehouse at the castle "Borreby Slot" nearby the town Skælskør. The place is located in West Zealand, Denmark.
context_page_description: Borreby Castle is a fortified manor house located near Skælskør, Slagelse Municipality, in the south-west corner of the island of Zealand, in eastern Denmark.
context_section_description: Built in red brick in the Renaissance style, Borreby consists of two and a half floors resting on stone plinth and topped by a pitched roof. There are four towers, three on the north side and a staircase tower on the south side. The masonry is decorated with arched friezes above each storey and the windows are topped by depressed arches.
  The defensive character of the building is witnessed by machicolation holes which are found on all sides. Behind these there used to be a walkway which has now been removed, but machicolation holes can still be seen all round the building.
  The interior is dominated by Joachim Lorentz Holten Castenschiold's modernizations carried out in the 1750s and restorations from 1883 to 1884 and 1923–24.
  The east and west wings of the outer courtyard date from Christian Friis' expansion, as does the gatehouse from 1600 and the large farm buildings located west of the castle. A chapel in the west wing was in its current form designed in 1754.
caption: The gatehouse from 1600
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