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Surroundings:

Lurs

Location:

  • Denmark, Bastrup
  • geo:55.819408,12.272276
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Period or year:

  • 1100 / unknown

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Identifiers:

  • vici:place=101882

Annotations

Bastrup Tower, also called Bastrup Ruin is a medieval ruin located approximately 50 meters north of Bastrup Lake at Lynge in Allerød Municipality. Since the source material about the tower is very sparse, not much is known about the builder, but it is believed that the tower was built in the first half of the 12th century by Ebbe Skjalmsen, also called Ebbe de Bastetorp, an uncle of Bishop Absalon. With its 6 meter thick walls, built of ashlar, and an external diameter of 21 meters, the structure was among the largest in Northern Europe at that time.

https://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/93841/

https://tidsskrift.dk/historisktidsskrift/article/view/50620

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238416212_Bastrup_-_Europe_A_massive_Danish_Donjon_from_1100


Nearby

Brudevælte Lurs (4 km)

Location where 6 lurs where found

Stoneage Long Burial Mound (10 km)

A ship shaped Burial mound constructed between 3950-2800 bc

Stoneage Grave (10 km)

Stoneage Grave called "kongedysse" from around 3400bc consisting of two burial mounds


This object was added by Pelle Sophus Rattunde Larsen on 2025-09-24. Last update by Pelle Sophus Rattunde Larsen on 2025-09-24. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/101882 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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