Glorup Park

Originally there was a modest garden in front of the south wing of Glorup. Later in the 18^th century came a bigger English garden south-west of the castle. At the same time count Moltke planted the lime-avenues. An obelisk in the park is a memorial of a family-gathering at Glorup in 1778. Tablets register the names and titles of the 32 participants.  The memorial is designed by Wiedewelt. The hostess of the party expresses her wish to see her family for ever in the abodes of the blessed.

When the homefarm was moved in the 1860^th there was room for greater gardens. They were layed out between 1862 and 1875. The landscape architect  was H. A. Flindt and the head-gardener Eltzholtz was in charge of the work. On the island in the little lake a fountain was built with the water gushing out from the mouths of lions. Among the new gardens was also a French garden by the lakeside with flowers and shrubs in formal ornamental patterns, and with 2 rows of Greek and Roman gods and goddesses. Each year 100.000 plants was bedded out from the greenhouses. Every morning the walks was raked before the count and countess was up and out.

A little temple was build in 1868 with 6 Dorian pillars. In the temple stands an Italian sculpture  It was originally placed in Moltkes town house in Amalienborg in Copenhagen ( now part of the royal residence) , next on the island in the lake at Glorup. It pictures Andromeda, a Greek princess, that was being sacrificed to a sea-monster, but who was saved by and married to a son of the god Zeus.

Not far from the temple the was a romantic suspension-bridge over a ravine, build in 1867. The bridge was 138 feet long. Today only the towers are left.

Detail from the park ca. 1920.

Another romantic touch is the stone on a small island with the following French inscription: "La nudité de ce monument sans Epitaphe et sans Inscription dit aux ames sensible et honnetes tout ce qu'il et possible de dire."

In the park there is a variety of rare trees, among others giant sequoias, a Chinese temple tree (Ginko Biloba) and a tulip-tree (Liriodendron Tulipifera).