Pictures of Bordesholm

Lake Bordesholm at sunset

For nearly 20 years Bordesholm has been our home. On this page we display some of the beautiful views of Bordesholm. Whenever possible we shall add further photos and historical information. We suggest to revisit this site periodically.

Bordesholm, springtime view from the north

Bordesholm.

Pulpit and choir stalls inside the monastery church

Sarcophagus of duke Friedrich and duchess Anna von Schleswig-Holstein

View into the church

The new altar, bulit in 1727, the original old Hans Brüggemann altar was moved 1666 to the dome in Schleswig

Detail of the Altar

Bordesholmer Klosterkiche small altar

Near Bordesholm

Tombstone of Johann Clairmont

Grave site of the fireworks superior Johann Clairmont. The site is located in the old church yard to the left of the monastery church. It is decorated with a spiked helmet, gun barrels and cannon balls. Engraved on the grave stone is the following inscription: Eckernfoerde, 5th. April 1849 - Northern Earthwork - To the steadfast fighter for Schleswig-Holstein, the fireworks superior Johann Clairmont, born February 5th., 1796 in Rendsburg, deceased March 8th., 1863 in Bordesholm. The battle at Eckernfoerde was a highlight during the war of 1848/49. Cause for this was the strong effort by the Danes to make the complete duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg a part of Denmark. The day long exchange of fire between Danish war ships in the Bay of Eckernfoerde and the Schleswig-Holstein shore batteries on April 5th. 1849 ended with the dramatic explosion of the vessel "Christian VIII". This was conclusive for the Danes. The balance sheet of the battle: a total of 1,064 Danes killed, wounded and captured. On the German side there wheretwenty-two killed and wounded. It was Clairmont, who under fire in the middle of the battle, camouflaged the white entrance of the gunpowder room which was visible from the ships, and so the target for the cannons disappeared.

The famous Bordesholmer lime tree, next to the monastery church, app. 600 years old, girth of the trunk app. 6,20m diameter of the crown app. 30m.

Former farmhouse, nicely renovated, in the past located at the village border, now in the middle between old and new part of Bordesholm

Old house at the Bordesholmer Lindenplatz, built in 1889 as a postoffice

Last Up-date: 26.07.2006 © U.&W. Boock
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