So many millions are Margrethe's ghost-castle worth

While some see a home theater or a café in the deserted Sorgenfri Slot, see Lars Wismann an income of a three-digit million amount. - There is no sensible arg

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald
03 January 2020 Friday 00:00
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So many millions are Margrethe's ghost-castle worth

While some see a home theater or a café in the deserted Sorgenfri Slot, see Lars Wismann an income of a three-digit million amount.

- There is no sensible argument to maintain the castle's ownership in Slots - and the Danish agency for culture, says Lars Wismann.

As the Extra Magazine has described, has the main castle building stood empty for nearly 25 years, after Caroline Mathilde passed away in 1995.

Neither the royal family or the Slots - and the Danish agency for culture want to disclose, whether the many outbuildings being used, but at Ekstra castle tour in december indicated that several outbuildings were empty.

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According to the so-called civillistelov queen Margrethe possession of six of the state's properties, including Sorgenfri Slot, but neither the minister, or her two sons, Frederik and Joachim, and their families have, however, used the castle to the residential.

Recently lived Margrethe's cousin princess Elisabeth in an extension, the so-called Damefløj, in a number of years until last year, when she passed away.

Lars Wismann, who has been self-employed since 2005, starred in 'Jeopardy' in 1998, where he was the grandmaster. Photo: Linda Johansen

The longtime appraiser, who stands behind the company Wismann Property Consult, have counted on the figures.

Based on the value of, among other grounds, housing and erhvervsarealet assesses Lars Wismann, to Sorgenfri Slot is 103.346.100 dollars worth.

See also: Beg of the minister: Let us use the castle

For the amount of money one can make, according to Statistics Denmark employ 218 nurses, 259 social and health care assistants or 204 police officers in a year.

Lars Wismann think that the emptiness in Sorgenfri Slot is economic nonsense.

Ekstra aktindsigter in the Slots and Kulturstyrelsens expenditure to Sorgenfri Slot shows that it costs in the region of one and a half million dollars a year to operate the castle, the garden and its outbuildings.

It costs Sorgenfri Slot

the Royal family only need to pay for the heating in the time, as they stay on the statsslottene, and for the interior maintenance.

The two costs are in the royal family's annual report, determined as the total amount of all the castles respectively 3.093.572 crowns and 829.974 dollars in 2018.

Below are listed the Slots and Kulturstyrelsens expenses for the operation of Sorgenfri Slot:

Maintenance

1.188.965 crowns

1.365.299 crowns

1.812.000 crowns

Heating

144.863 crowns

114.027 crowns

148.491 crowns

Updated: 03.01.2020 00:00