Buskmosegård: A Danish Estate with a Neo-Gothic Villa-Castle
Site at a Glance
- Popularity
- Very Low
- Country
- Denmark
- Primary era
- Modern
- Eras represented
- Modern
- Civilizations
- German, Kingdom of Prussia
- Site type
- Domestic
- Remains
- Castle
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History
Buskmosegård is an estate near Rinkenæs, on the north side of the Flensburg Fjord in Denmark. Its history reaches back to the fifteenth century, and its nineteenth-century villa-castle, a villa designed in the form of a castle, is neo-Gothic, a revival of Gothic forms popular during that century.
Fifteenth-century estate
Buskmosegård was first mentioned in 1475, apparently already serving as a noble residence.
Nineteenth-century villa-castle
In 1885, the estate was purchased by the Prussian district administrator of Apenrade, a civil official responsible for a district. Apenrade is the German name for Aabenraa. Baron Raphael von Uslar, a German nobleman, commissioned a large villa-castle on the estate during the nineteenth century.
The spire on the building’s southeast tower was probably reconstructed between 2006 and 2018.
Remains
Villa-castle
The estate includes newer farm buildings and a square, medieval-looking villa-castle with two full storeys above a basement. Its neo-Gothic design has some similarities to Blomenburg near Plön and Neuschwanstein Castle. Numerous projections and bay windows articulate the building. A black-tiled mansard roof, with two slopes on each side and a typically steeper lower slope, tops the structure. A pointed-roof tower occupies the northwest corner, while a taller, eight-sided tower with a spire stands at the southeast corner.
Park and woodland
A park adjoins the north side of the villa-castle and extends to Buskmose Skov, the forest immediately to the north. Farther north, Buskmose Skov joins Rinkenæs Skov, which extends to Gravenstein Castle.
