Stiftung Louisenlund is a privately run boarding school for boys and girls in Güby, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. The schools main building is in Louisenlund Castle, which was built by Hermann von Motz between 1772 and 1776 for Landgrave Charles of Hesse as a gift for his wife Princess Louise of Denmark, the daughter of King Frederick V of Denmark. [1] [2]
Louisenlund later became part of the property owned by the dukes of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, who remodeled the castle to its present state. An English traveler, Horace Marryat, wrote in 1860, "Louisenlund is a charming residence in summer time, with its dark beech woods, in spring a carpet of lilies, herb-paris, hepaticas; and the bright blue waters of its deep fiordes, waters which could reveal sad tales . . . ."[3]
Advised by Kurt Hahn, in 1949 Duke Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein decided to build a boarding school on the grounds and established the Louisenlund Foundation. A foundation set up to administer the Stiftung Louisenlund, a member of the Round Square Conference of Schools. [4] [5]
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Marryat, Horace (1860). Denmark: Description and travel. London: Murray. http://www.archive.org/stream/residenceinjutla01marruoft/residenceinjutla01marruoft_djvu.txt. Retrieved November 18, 2009.
"HANS MAJESTÆT KONG CHRISTIAN DEN NIENDES FORÆLDRE" (in Danish). Illlustreret Tidende 59 (16). April 21, 1918. http://img.kb.dk/iti/59/pdf/iti_59_0297.pdf. Retrieved November 18, 2009.
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Louisenlund in Fiction
Louisenlund boarding school is the setting for the short story "Erlkonig or Turbid Isidor": http://www.short-fiction.co.uk/newstories/show_story.php?story_id=11908