Sorgenfri Palace

Sorgenfri Palace
Sorgenfri Slot
Sorgenfri Palace
General information
Type	Palace
Architectural style	Baroque
Town or city	Kongens Lyngby
Country	Denmark
Construction started	1756
Completed	1757
Client	Dowager Princess Sophie Caroline of East Frisia
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Lauritz de Thurah

Sorgenfri Palace (Danish: Sorgenfri Slot; lit. "Sorrow free", a calque of Sans Souci) is a royal residence of the Danish monarch, located in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality, on the east side of Lyngby Kongevej, in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen. The surrounding neighbourhood is called Sorgenfri after it. Only the cellar and foundations survive of the first Sorgenfri House, which was built in 1705 to design by François Dieussart. The current house was built in 1756 by Lauritz de Thurah and later adapted and extended by Peter Meyn in the 1790s. Lauritz de Thurah has also designed buildings which flank the driveway closer to the road.

Sorgenfri Palace is surrounded by a large park which is bounded by Mølleåen to the east. It was adapted to the English Romantic style in the late 1790s and early 1899s and contains several small buildings.

Christian X used it as a summer residence and it has later been part of it let out to relatives of the royal family. The park is open to the public.