Søborg is a parish and small community situated a few kilometers south of

Gilleleje Gilleleje () is a fishing town and seaside resort on the north coast of the peninsula North Zealand, Denmark. The town is located at the northernmost point of the island of Zealand. It is one of the main towns of the Gribskov municipality in Regio ...

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, some 40 km north of

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. It takes its name after

Søborg Castle Søborg Castle (, ) is a ruined castle south of Gilleleje in North Zealand, Denmark. It was one of the strongest castles in Denmark and was also used as a prison. It was inhabited until the Count's Feud in 1535, when it is speculated that it was ...

, which was destroyed during the

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and is now left as a ruin. The town was a

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in the Middle Ages and remained the main town of

Holbo Herred Holbo Herred (''Holbo Hundred'') was an administrative division in Frederiksborg County in the northern part of the island of Zealand, Denmark. It comprised the present-day Gribskov Municipality plus the parish of Nødebo (which today is in Hille ...

until the beginning of the 19th century. Today it only has a population of 237 (1 January 2025). Søborg Church dates from the 12th century. Søborg Lake to the north of the town was drained in the 19th century.

History

Little is known about the early history of Søborg Castle. It stood on a small peninsula on the south side of Søborg Lake and may have been built by

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. It was later used as a state prison before it was destroyed during the

. The town of Søborg (''Seoburgh'') is referred to as a

in about 1270. From 1341, there is evidence of a St. Gertrud's Guild and a St Knud's Guild in the town. A town hall and

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is mentioned in 1405. In 1559, Søborg is still referred to as a market town. In 1577, the king's vassal at Keonborg was granted permission to use the ruins as a quarry. Several letters show that King Fredrick II visited the town in 1580. A witch burning took place in the town square in 1582. In 1950, Frederick VII participated in archeological excavations of Søborg Castle. They have been followed by other surveys and excavations, resulting in a number of finds. Søborg remained the main town of Holbo Herred until the beginning of the 19th century. The first efforts to drain Søborg lake took place in the late 18th century when a canal was dug between the lake and the

Kattegat The Kattegat (; ; ) is a sea area bounded by the peninsula of Jutland in the west, the Danish straits islands of Denmark and the Baltic Sea to the south and the Swedish provinces of Bohuslän, Västergötland, Halland and Scania in Swede ...

at Gilleleje. The lake remained a marshy area for almost a hundred years. In 1872, Count C. E. Frijs purchased the area and commissioned the engineer Peter Feilberg to complete the project. Søborg Windmill was built in 1983 and decommissioned in 1918.

Description

Søborg Church is built in red brick and dates from about 1200. It was originally 30 metres long. The tower,

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and porch are later additions. In the south wall of the chancel is a tile stone with a

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inscribed before the stone was burned. It reads "The first" and was possibly the foundation stone. A pumping station at Søborggaard currently drains Søborg Lake at a rate of 75,000 litres per day. It has been proposed to restore the lake. Søborg railway halt is located about 2 km (1.2 mi) north east of the village of Søborg. It is located on the

Hornbæk railway line Hornbæk () is a seaside resort town on the north coast of the Danish island of Sjælland, facing the Øresund which separates Denmark from Sweden. It is part of Helsingør Municipality and is located 12 km northwest of Helsingør. It is mai ...

from Helsingør to Gilleleje.

Notable people

Margaret I of Denmark Margaret I (; March 1353 – 28 October 1412) was Queen regnant of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden (which included Finland) from the late 1380s until her death, and the founder of the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian kingdoms together for ...

(1353–1412) the Queen who founded the

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was born in

* Otto Christian Hammer (1822 in Hulerød, Søborg Sogn – 1892) a Danish naval officer who participated in the

First Schleswig War The First Schleswig War (), also known as the Schleswig-Holstein uprising () and the Three Years' War (), was a military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig–Holstein question: who should control the Du ...

and the

Second Schleswig War The Second Schleswig War (; or German Danish War), also sometimes known as the Dano-Prussian War or Prusso-Danish War, was the second military conflict over the Schleswig–Holstein question of the nineteenth century. The war began on 1 Februar ...

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Gribskov Kommune Stads- og Lokalarkiv
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