Monday, June 3, 2013

Baroniet Rosendal

Before we left Norway we got the opportunity to tour the Rosendal Barony. The short story is In 1658 there was a wedding between Norway’s wealthiest heir, Karen Mowat and a poor but proud Danish nobleman. Karen Mowat and Ludvig Rosenkrantz were given the farm Hatteberg as a wedding present. The king then gave it the title of Barony. The cool part about the barony is the rooms are influenced by owners over 250 years, and the manor is preserved as a home – the way it was when the last owners left in 1927.


 FINALLY INSIDE THE GATES =D




 The fireplace in the dining hall


















This candlestick reminded me of Lumiere from Beauty and The Beast

















 I love their fireplaces





















The Baroness's trunk.....I think





















The Baron and Baroness

















 Fun Stairs





















A painting of the Barony. The mountain in the background is Malmangernuten















 The Baroness's room.....Can I have a library in my room?

















 The Library is the only room in Norway kept in its entirety from the 16-hundreds. It is clothed in rich French tapestry from the 1660s. This tapestry is the only one of its kind still on the original walls. You'll notice that in the corner there is a lady doing some repair work on the tapestry.



















 Another cool fireplace

















The Blue room
















 Seriously how can you not want one of these?






















This is some of the oldest Meissen and Royal Danish china kept in Norway.
















The  Red Room has some of the grand and beautiful Norwegian nature, painted by the greatest Norwegian landscape painters from the national romantic period.


































 This painting is a female portrait painted in the 1880s by Edvard Munch. I think the guide said this painting was worth millions!





















 I really liked this hallway lamp

















The courtyard
















The Yellow Room
















 The Yellow Room has a Norwegian empire-style interior, including some of the most precious empire furniture in the country. The furniture was made by Abraham Bøe from Bergen around 1820.
















This is a painting from a scene from one of Shakespeare's plays. I can't remember which one so if anybody knows please let me know!
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 View of the gardens from the Yellow Room
The sitting area where you can enjoy a cup of kaffe and a biscuit.


















I'm so glad that we got tour the inside!

1 comment:

This is me! said...

Such an amazing and beautiful and historic place! It's cool to think of all the things that have happened and how the world has changed over the years, but some of those rooms have stayed exactly the same!