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, roughly where

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and

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lies today.

History

The garden was established by Queen Consort Sophie Amalie after her husband, Frederick III of Denmark, had been crowned in 1648. The garden had pavilions, fishing ponds and rare plants. As late as 1657, 40,000 bricks were used for a house on the premises but it was destroyed by the Swedish troops during their

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in the Second Northern War from 1658 to 1660 shortly thereafter. After the war Sophie Amalie established

Sophie Amalienborg Sophie Amalienborg was a Lustschloss, pleasure palace roughly located where Amalienborg stands today in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was built by Queen Consort Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Sophie Amalie who lived there until her death in 1685 a ...

in its place.

References

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